Virginia · Private foundation
The Helen G Gifford 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.
- $183k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $37,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Helen G Gifford Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 29 | $145k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $172k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $187k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $170k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $169k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $184k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $186k | 3% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $209k | 16% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Virginia Arts Festival Inc | $180,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Virginia Symphony Orchestra | $173,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Virginia Opera Association Inc | $105,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Chrysler Museum Incorporated | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Forkids Inc | $85,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Virginia Stage Company | $73,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Hope House Foundation | $63,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of Chevra T'Helim | $54,500 | 9 | 13% |
| Young Audiences of Virginia Inc | $49,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Norfolk Botanical Garden Inc | $46,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($284k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Helen G Gifford 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: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Business Consortium for Arts Support · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Goode Family Foundation · The Barr Foundation · Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · Sentara Health · The Dalis Foundation · Lafayette River Foundation
How this is measured
About The Helen G Gifford Foundation
- How much does The Helen G Gifford Foundation give?
- The Helen G Gifford Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $182,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Helen G Gifford Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (62%), Education (12%), Religion (6%).
- Who are The Helen G Gifford Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Virginia Arts Festival Inc ($180k), Virginia Symphony Orchestra ($173k), Virginia Opera Association Inc ($105k).
- Does The Helen G Gifford Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Helen G Gifford 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 Helen G Gifford Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hampton Roads Community Foundation, Business Consortium for Arts Support, United Way of South Hampton Roads.
- Where is The Helen G Gifford Foundation based?
- The Helen G Gifford Foundation is based in VA.
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