How much does Kva Foundation give?

Kva Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $59,400 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 49 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.

What does Kva Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (27%), Religion (16%), Education (13%).

Who are Kva Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Lynchburg Grows ($159k), Academy Center of the Arts Inc ($33k), Hollins University Corporation ($28k).

Does Kva Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Kva Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Kva Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715, The Al Stroobants Foundation.

Foundation Dossiers

Virginia · Private foundation

Kva Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$59k
Granted FY2026(still arriving): 39
Grants FY2026: 39
Organizations funded FY2025: 8%
First-time grantees FY2025

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Median grant, FY2026: $500
Largest grant, FY2026: $11,000
Organizations funded a year: 32 to 49; FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026: 6
Total assets, FY2026: $355k
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 8% of the organizations Kva Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2026still arriving	39	$59k	23%
FY2025	39	$64k	8%
FY2024	46	$70k	7%
FY2023	47	$50k	9%
FY2022	46	$93k	15%
FY2021	49	$63k	22%
FY2020	42	$80k	17%
FY2019	32	$40k	3%

92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Food & Nutrition$180kReligion$105kEducation$84kArts & Culture$53kHuman Services$44kHealth$29kEnvironment$10kAnimals$9kOther$0

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 FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Lynchburg Grows	$159,277	10	8%
Academy Center of the Arts Inc	$32,850	3	1%
Hollins University Corporation	$28,078	10	0%
Converse University	$20,112	9	0%
James River Day School Inc	$16,250	5	0%
Elizabeth's Early Learning Center Inc	$12,000	10	0%
Lynchburg Daily Bread Inc	$10,000	10	0%
Interfaith Outreach Association	$9,500	10	0%
Miriam's House Inc	$8,100	10	0%
Park View Community Mission Inc	$7,350	6	0%

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All grantees of Kva Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Lynchburg Grows	$159,277	10	8%
Academy Center of the Arts Inc	$32,850	3	1%
Hollins University Corporation	$28,078	10	0%
Converse University	$20,112	9	0%
James River Day School Inc	$16,250	5	0%
Elizabeth's Early Learning Center Inc	$12,000	10	0%
Lynchburg Daily Bread Inc	$10,000	10	0%
Interfaith Outreach Association	$9,500	10	0%
Miriam's House Inc	$8,100	10	0%
Park View Community Mission Inc	$7,350	6	0%
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts	$5,000	1	0%
The Columbus Museum Inc	$5,000	1	0%
The Garden Club of Virginia Inc	$4,250	10	0%
The Awareness Garden Foundationinc	$2,400	10	1%
Jubilee Family Development Center	$2,250	7	0%
The Madeira School	$2,250	1	0%
Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc	$1,900	6	0%
Southern Memorial Association	$1,770	9	0%
Meals on Wheels Inc	$1,750	7	0%
Lynchburg Museum Foundation	$1,300	4	1%
Children's Specialized Hospital	$1,200	3	0%
Drew University	$1,000	10	0%
Carlisle School	$1,000	1	0%
Trillium Collaborative	$1,000	2	n/a
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc	$1,000	1	n/a
Opera on the James	$1,000	6	0%
Xerces Society Inc	$900	9	0%
The 500 Year Forest Foundation	$500	1	7%
Charlottesville Ballet	$500	3	0%
Onevirginia2021	$500	1	n/a
Southern Garden History Society	$325	3	0%
Lynchburg Garden Club Inc	$300	3	0%
Presbyterian Homes & Family Svcs	$250	1	0%
Westminster Canterbury Foundation	$250	1	0%
Gunston Hall Incorporated	$200	2	n/a
World Wildlife Fund Inc	$200	2	0%
The Garden Conservancy Inc	$150	2	0%
The Arc of Central Virginia	$100	1	0%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$100	1	0%
National Arbor Day Foundation	$100	1	0%
American Horticultural Society	$100	1	n/a
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated	$50	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($314k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kva Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 37.

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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.

Greater Lynchburg Community FoundationVA42.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Foster Foundation · The Harry D Forsyth Foundation · Schewel Charitable Foundation · Carrington Family Foundation · Centra Health Inc · M4k Lynchburg Inc · Valentine Family Foundation · Centra Health Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Kva Foundation

How much does Kva Foundation give?: Kva Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $59,400 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 49 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Kva Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (27%), Religion (16%), Education (13%).
Who are Kva Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Lynchburg Grows ($159k), Academy Center of the Arts Inc ($33k), Hollins University Corporation ($28k).
Does Kva Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2025, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kva Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kva Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715, The Al Stroobants Foundation.
Where is Kva Foundation based?: Kva Foundation is based in VA.