Virginia · Public charity
Kovar Corporation
To provide financial assistance through grants and loans to charitable organizations that provide training and assistance to citizens with intellectual disabilities in the commonwealth of virginia
- $549k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $19,750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Kovar Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k 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 | 32 | $554k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $550k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $518k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $346k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $345k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $446k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $562k | 58% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $519k | 79% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Special Olympics Virginia Inc | $319,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Medical Home Plus | $105,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Virginia Down Syndrome Association | $103,490 | 6 | 5% |
| The Arc of Central Virginia | $102,132 | 6 | 1% |
| Soar 365 | $99,974 | 5 | 0% |
| Franciscan Brethren St Phillips | $98,103 | 5 | 2% |
| Colonial Behaviorial Health | $89,558 | 5 | n/a |
| Danville-Pittsylvania Community Services | $87,685 | 5 | 0% |
| The Arc of Harrisonburg & Rockingham Inc | $82,844 | 5 | 3% |
| Jills House Inc | $78,626 | 4 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
Kovar Corporation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 90 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: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Sentara Health · Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Foundation for Children With Intell Ectual & Developmental Disabilities · The Community Foundation Inc · Virginia Crisis Intervention Team Coalition · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Robins Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust
How this is measured
About Kovar Corporation
- How much does Kovar Corporation give?
- Kovar Corporation reported 32 grants totaling $549,493 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kovar Corporation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (25%), Human Services (23%), Employment (16%).
- Who are Kovar Corporation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Special Olympics Virginia Inc ($320k), Medical Home Plus ($105k), Virginia Down Syndrome Association ($103k).
- Does Kovar Corporation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kovar Corporation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Sentara Health, Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia.
- Where is Kovar Corporation based?
- Kovar Corporation is based in VA.
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