Virginia · Private foundation
Irving May and Edith H May Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $26k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $452k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Irving May and Edith H May Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 23 | $26k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $21k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $19k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $23k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $17k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $14k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $14k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $13k | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | $15,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Southeast Corgi Rescue Incorporated | $8,400 | 7 | 2% |
| Travis Mills Foundation | $6,950 | 9 | 0% |
| Cadillac Area Honor Guard | $6,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $6,086 | 9 | 0% |
| Companions for Heroes | $4,513 | 7 | 0% |
| Scoliosis Research Society | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sandy Hook Promise Foundation | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc | $3,700 | 7 | 0% |
| Corgiaid Inc | $2,741 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | $15,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Southeast Corgi Rescue Incorporated | $8,400 | 7 | 2% |
| Travis Mills Foundation | $6,950 | 9 | 0% |
| Cadillac Area Honor Guard | $6,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $6,086 | 9 | 0% |
| Companions for Heroes | $4,513 | 7 | 0% |
| Scoliosis Research Society | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sandy Hook Promise Foundation | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc | $3,700 | 7 | 0% |
| Corgiaid Inc | $2,741 | 9 | 0% |
| The Jared Box Project | $2,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Philadelphia Region | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (Usa) | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Duncan Tree Ventures Incorporated | $2,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Field Institute of Taos | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Grymes Memorial School Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Foundation of Shalom Park | $640 | 4 | 0% |
| Central Union Mission | $600 | 6 | 0% |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Signature Theatre Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Piedmont Animal Rescue Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($84k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Irving May and Edith H May 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.
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How this is measured
Compare Irving May and Edith H May Foundation with peer funders
About Irving May and Edith H May Foundation
- How much does Irving May and Edith H May Foundation give?
- Irving May and Edith H May Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $25,706 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Irving May and Edith H May Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (29%), Human Services (29%), Animals (19%).
- Who are Irving May and Edith H May Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc ($16k), Southeast Corgi Rescue Incorporated ($8k), Travis Mills Foundation ($7k).
- Does Irving May and Edith H May Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Irving May and Edith H May Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Irving May and Edith H May Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Irving May and Edith H May Foundation based?
- Irving May and Edith H May Foundation is based in VA.
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