Virginia · Private foundation
Farrell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $35k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Farrell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 | 6 | $35k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $2.0M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $418k | 49% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $328k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $257k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $243k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $216k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $182k | 75% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carilion Clinic Foundation | $2,195,765 | 5 | 15% |
| Carilion Clinic | $172,360 | 1 | 0% |
| Roanoke Cultural Endowment | $55,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Wake Forest University | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bradley Free Clinic of Roanoke Valley Inc | $37,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Our Lady of Perpetual Help | $36,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Protestant Episcopal High School in Virginia | $22,500 | 2 | 0% |
| United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Conservancy of Southwest Florida | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 89 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Farrell Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 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 · Evelyn F James Foundation · Powell Charitable Foundation · Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · The Newbern Foundation · The Rice Foundation Inc · Muse Family Foundation Co Elizabeth Muse · The Ceres Foundation Inc · Investco Foundation · Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect
How this is measured
About Farrell Foundation
- How much does Farrell Foundation give?
- Farrell Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $34,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Farrell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (66%), Education (7%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Farrell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Carilion Clinic Foundation ($2.2M), Carilion Clinic ($172k), Roanoke Cultural Endowment ($55k).
- Does Farrell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Farrell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Farrell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia, Evelyn F James Foundation, Powell Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Farrell Foundation based?
- Farrell Foundation is based in VA.
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