New Jersey · Private foundation
Minerva 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.
- $567k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $180,164
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 13
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Minerva Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $228k 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 | 12 | $542k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $496k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $474k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $526k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $437k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $295k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $536k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $485,284 | 7 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $434,500 | 7 | 0% |
| World Resources Institute | $346,689 | 4 | 0% |
| National Women's History Museum | $300,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc | $299,239 | 3 | 0% |
| Sarah Lawrence College | $200,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Democracy Forward Foundation | $180,164 | 1 | 0% |
| Fund for Constitutional Government | $168,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Unrwa USA National Committee Inc | $125,384 | 2 | 0% |
| National Network of Abortion Funds Lilith Fund | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $485,284 | 7 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $434,500 | 7 | 0% |
| World Resources Institute | $346,689 | 4 | 0% |
| National Women's History Museum | $300,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc | $299,239 | 3 | 0% |
| Sarah Lawrence College | $200,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Democracy Forward Foundation | $180,164 | 1 | 0% |
| Fund for Constitutional Government | $168,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Unrwa USA National Committee Inc | $125,384 | 2 | 0% |
| National Network of Abortion Funds Lilith Fund | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Alex Manfull Fund | $100,000 | 3 | 22% |
| 826NYC Inc | $85,000 | 7 | 1% |
| New Urban Arts | $80,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Defenders of Wildlife | $80,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Scenic Visitors Center | $68,000 | 6 | 58% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project | $41,390 | 1 | 1% |
| Pandas Networkorg | $30,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Osceola Arts Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($14k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Minerva Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Minerva Foundation
- How much does Minerva Foundation give?
- Minerva Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $567,492 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Minerva Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (23%), International (18%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Minerva Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($485k), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($435k), World Resources Institute ($347k).
- Does Minerva Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Minerva 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 Minerva Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Minerva Foundation based?
- Minerva Foundation is based in NJ.
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