California · Private foundation
The Dovana Foundation Inc
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.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $51,495
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $720,670
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Dovana Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $844k 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 | 26 | $2.0M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $2.4M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $346k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $175k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $138k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $150k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $149k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $142k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gallatin Valley Land Trust | $1,040,432 | 4 | 19% |
| Historic Annapolis Inc | $622,304 | 1 | 10% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $540,261 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $464,006 | 8 | 0% |
| Chesapeake Conservancy Inc | $385,796 | 5 | 1% |
| New England Conservatory of Music | $282,047 | 7 | 0% |
| The Montana Land Reliance | $274,267 | 4 | 1% |
| The California Wildlife Center | $201,819 | 9 | 5% |
| Southern California Equestrian Sports | $180,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Downtown Women's Center | $177,526 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
The Dovana Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Park County Community Foundation · Solid Rock Foundation Co Rosamond Stanton · The Kendeda Fund · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · McCRUM FUND INC · The Stake Foundation · Asis Foundation · The Ferris Foundation · Glassybaby Foundation · The McNeely Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation
How this is measured
About The Dovana Foundation Inc
- How much does The Dovana Foundation Inc give?
- The Dovana Foundation Inc reported 27 grants totaling $2,078,567 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Dovana Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (44%), Arts & Culture (21%), Education (8%).
- Who are The Dovana Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gallatin Valley Land Trust ($1.0M), Historic Annapolis Inc ($622k), The Trust for Public Land ($540k).
- Does The Dovana Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Dovana Foundation Inc 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 The Dovana Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation, Park County Community Foundation, Solid Rock Foundation Co Rosamond Stanton.
- Where is The Dovana Foundation Inc based?
- The Dovana Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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