Virginia · Private foundation
The Garrett Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $33k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2024
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $6,125
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 53
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations The Garrett Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 37 | $33k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $26k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $30k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $32k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $30k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $30k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $23k | 22% |
| FY2017 | 37 | $39k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hollins University Corporation | $25,500 | 7 | 0% |
| US Naval Academy Foundation Inc | $17,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc | $14,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Healthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc | $13,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Westminster Canterbury Corporation | $12,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Collegiate School | $7,100 | 8 | 0% |
| Focused Ultrasound Foundation | $6,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Colonial Agri Educ Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $3,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Let's Go Boys and Girls Inc | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($119k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Garrett 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 Community Foundation Inc · Commonwealth Foundations · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Kathryn & W H Schwarzschild Fund · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Tesco Foundation
How this is measured
About The Garrett Foundation
- How much does The Garrett Foundation give?
- The Garrett Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $32,950 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 53 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Garrett Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (22%), Education (21%), Health (19%).
- Who are The Garrett Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hollins University Corporation ($26k), US Naval Academy Foundation Inc ($18k), Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc ($14k).
- Does The Garrett Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Garrett 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 The Garrett Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Commonwealth Foundations, Richard S Reynolds Foundation.
- Where is The Garrett Foundation based?
- The Garrett Foundation is based in VA.
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