Virginia · Private foundation
Gaea Foundation Inc
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.
- $70k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 9
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Gaea Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 5 | $70k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $90k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $60k | 83% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $75k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $45k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $40k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $30k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Fund for Women Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Drift Magazine Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Race Forward | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Culturehub Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Possibility Project Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 2% |
| N1 Foundation | $30,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Drylands Agroecology Research Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Abraham In Motion Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Gina Gibney Dance Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Coffee House Press Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Fund for Women Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Drift Magazine Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Race Forward | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Culturehub Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Possibility Project Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 2% |
| N1 Foundation | $30,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Drylands Agroecology Research Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Abraham In Motion Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Gina Gibney Dance Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Coffee House Press Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Original Music Workshop Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Graywolf Press | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Triskelion Arts-Kick-Standance Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Performance Research Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| New Art Publications Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Movement Research Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Tank Ltd | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Center for Constitutional Rights | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Poetry Project Ltd | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gaea Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Jerome Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Emma a Sheafer Charitable Tr Xxxxx7006 · Council of Literary Magazines and Presses · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About Gaea Foundation Inc
- How much does Gaea Foundation Inc give?
- Gaea Foundation Inc reported 5 grants totaling $70,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Gaea Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (59%), Civil Rights (24%), Youth Development (9%).
- Who are Gaea Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Global Fund for Women Inc ($50k), The Drift Magazine Foundation Inc ($45k), Race Forward ($40k).
- Does Gaea Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gaea Foundation Inc 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 Gaea Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc, The Ford Foundation, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation.
- Where is Gaea Foundation Inc based?
- Gaea Foundation Inc is based in VA.
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