Virginia · Private foundation
The Mousetrap Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2024
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $220,946
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 36
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations The Mousetrap Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $494k 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 | 15 | $1.2M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $1.6M | 75% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $1.6M | 7% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $1.6M | 29% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $1.3M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $945k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $995k | 20% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $955k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ayuda Inc | $1,250,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Georgetown University | $1,200,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Piedmont Environmental Council | $957,500 | 8 | 3% |
| The Howard University | $873,661 | 4 | 0% |
| Fauquier Free Clinic Inc | $800,000 | 8 | 7% |
| Center for Innovation Inc | $400,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Glacier National Park Conservancy | $400,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Virginia Public Access Project | $350,000 | 7 | 6% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $275,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Well Done Foundation Inc | $205,840 | 2 | 16% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Mousetrap Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Mousetrap Foundation
- How much does The Mousetrap Foundation give?
- The Mousetrap Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $1,430,946 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Mousetrap Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (28%), Environment (18%), Health (15%).
- Who are The Mousetrap Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ayuda Inc ($1.3M), Georgetown University ($1.2M), The Piedmont Environmental Council ($958k).
- Does The Mousetrap Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Mousetrap Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Mousetrap Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Mousetrap Foundation based?
- The Mousetrap Foundation is based in VA.
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