Virginia · Private foundation
Proteus Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $520k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 25
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Proteus Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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 | 28 | $445k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $364k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $255k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $210k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $349k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $358k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Open Science Inc | $200,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Santa Fe Institute | $200,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Green Forests Work Inc | $125,000 | 4 | 2% |
| California Institute for Machine Consciousness | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mediators Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest | $64,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Grow Pittsburgh | $60,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Foodshed Capital | $60,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Fern Hollow Nature Center Inc | $55,000 | 2 | 1% |
| MIT Free Speech Alliance | $40,000 | 4 | 7% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($683k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Proteus 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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge · The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County · Glen and Diane Meakem Foundation Inc · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · The Kopf Family Foundation · The Grable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Proteus Foundation
- How much does Proteus Foundation give?
- Proteus Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $520,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Proteus Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (26%), Science & Tech (22%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Proteus Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Center for Open Science Inc ($200k), Santa Fe Institute ($200k), Green Forests Work Inc ($125k).
- Does Proteus Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Proteus Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Proteus Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge, The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County.
- Where is Proteus Foundation based?
- Proteus Foundation is based in VA.
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