Delaware · Private foundation
The Petunia 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.
- $120k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $371k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Petunia Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 4 | $120k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $15k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $25k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $12k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $5k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $6k | 75% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $9k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $51,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Duke University | $28,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Earth Island Institute Inc | $10,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Our Children's Trust | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Save Ukraine | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Razom Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wildlifedirect Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| National Urban League Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $51,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Duke University | $28,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Earth Island Institute Inc | $10,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Our Children's Trust | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Save Ukraine | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Razom Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wildlifedirect Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| National Urban League Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Keeping Our Promise Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Transportation Alternatives Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Givedirectly Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Abraham Joshua Heschel School | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Promise Arizona | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Hispanic Federation Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Petunia 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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Petunia Foundation
- How much does The Petunia Foundation give?
- The Petunia Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $120,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Petunia Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), International (16%), Health (14%).
- Who are The Petunia Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($51k), Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($50k), Duke University ($29k).
- Does The Petunia Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Petunia 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 Petunia Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Petunia Foundation based?
- The Petunia Foundation is based in DE.
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