Illinois · Private foundation
The Colava Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $20k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Colava Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 2 | $20k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $25k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $20k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $27k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $18k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $39k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $6k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muttville | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Givedirectly Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Software Freedom Conservancy Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Volunteers in Medicine Clinic | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Talking Farm | $3,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Fight2feed a Charitable Organization | $2,500 | 1 | 7% |
| Family Action Network | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Nonzero Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.
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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Colava Foundation
- How much does The Colava Foundation give?
- The Colava Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Colava Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (41%), Animals (29%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are The Colava Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Muttville ($45k), Givedirectly Inc ($10k), Software Freedom Conservancy Inc ($10k).
- Does The Colava Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Colava Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Colava Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Colava Foundation based?
- The Colava Foundation is based in IL.
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