Virginia · Private foundation
Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $929k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 2%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 48
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 2% of the organizations Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $886k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $968k | 2% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $992k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $915k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $887k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $950k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $915k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $744k | 3% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc | $2,250,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Plan International USA Inc | $630,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $240,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Virginia Horse Center Foundation | $175,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Legal Aid Society of Roanoke Valley | $120,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Blacksburg Refugee Partnership Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 33% |
| Feeding Southwest Virginia | $56,000 | 9 | 0% |
| West End Center Inc | $55,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Total Action Against Poverty in the Roanoke Valley | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Muse Family Foundation Co Elizabeth Muse · The Newbern Foundation · Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc · Carilion Medical Center · The Ceres Foundation Inc · Friendship Apartment Village Corporation · Farrell Foundation · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc
How this is measured
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About Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation
- How much does Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation give?
- Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $929,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), International (20%), Animals (17%).
- Who are Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Men's Christian Association of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc ($2.3M), Plan International USA Inc ($630k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($240k).
- Does Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia, Robertson Family Foundation Inc, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
- Where is Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation based?
- Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation is based in VA.
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