Virginia · Private foundation
Gratis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 75
- Grants FY2025
- 76
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 60 to 76
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Gratis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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 | 73 | $990k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 76 | $1.0M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 70 | $1.0M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $1.0M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 68 | $1.0M | 31% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $990k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 65 | $960k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duke University | $1,200,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $250,000 | 7 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $170,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Thrive Scholars | $165,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Medical Teams International | $155,000 | 7 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $155,000 | 7 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $150,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Cape Cod Times Neighbors Fund Inc | $135,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $125,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 115 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($983k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gratis Foundation 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Quantum Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Gratis Foundation
- How much does Gratis Foundation give?
- Gratis Foundation reported 75 grants totaling $1,000,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 60 and 76 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Gratis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Health (23%), Human Services (17%).
- Who are Gratis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Duke University ($1.2M), Children's Hospital Corporation ($250k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($170k).
- Does Gratis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gratis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gratis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Gratis Foundation based?
- Gratis Foundation is based in VA.
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