Virginia · Private foundation
Major Family Foundation
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.
- $332k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 14
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Major Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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 | 15 | $331k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $297k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $284k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $263k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $292k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $237k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $327k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Madison University Foundation Inc | $1,032,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Elevate Early Education Inc | $170,200 | 4 | 3% |
| Claude Moore Opportunities | $100,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Inova Health System Foundation | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| All Ages Read Together | $40,750 | 2 | 5% |
| Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine Inc | $38,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Uva School of Education and Human Development Foundation Inc | $19,300 | 1 | 0% |
| Loudoun Community Media | $17,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Morven Park Inc | $17,500 | 3 | 2% |
| James Madison University | $16,939 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($452k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Major Family 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: Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · The Claude Moore Charitable Foundation · Fredrick D & Karen G Schaufeld Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Van Metre Companies Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · The McMunn Family Foundation · Virts Miller Foundation · The Van Metre Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Major Family Foundation
- How much does Major Family Foundation give?
- Major Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $331,939 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Major Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (75%), Health (6%), Philanthropy (4%).
- Who are Major Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: James Madison University Foundation Inc ($1.0M), Elevate Early Education Inc ($170k), Claude Moore Opportunities ($100k).
- Does Major Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Major Family Foundation 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 Major Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties, The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc, The Bank of Clarke County Foundation.
- Where is Major Family Foundation based?
- Major Family Foundation is based in VA.
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