Delaware · Private foundation
The Townsend Family 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.
- $50k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $421k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Townsend Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% 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 | 31 | $49k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $53k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $70k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $50k | 91% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $11k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $3k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $5k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Naval Academy Foundation Inc | $37,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Cape Henry Collegiate School Inc | $28,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Eastern Shore Chapel Episcopal Church - Church Pantry | $24,850 | 5 | n/a |
| Lil Roar Cat Rescue | $22,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Southeastern Virginia Areawide Model Program Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lynnhaven River Now | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Kevin & Brittany Kisner Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Virginia Gentlemen Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Fight Cf Foundation | $5,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Hope House Foundation | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Townsend Family 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 · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Sentara Health · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Landmark Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Townebank Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Monarch Charities Inc · Sterzing Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About The Townsend Family Foundation
- How much does The Townsend Family Foundation give?
- The Townsend Family Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $49,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Townsend Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Animals (13%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are The Townsend Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: US Naval Academy Foundation Inc ($38k), Cape Henry Collegiate School Inc ($28k), Eastern Shore Chapel Episcopal Church - Church Pantry ($25k).
- Does The Townsend Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Townsend Family 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 Townsend Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hampton Roads Community Foundation, United Way of South Hampton Roads, Sentara Health.
- Where is The Townsend Family Foundation based?
- The Townsend Family Foundation is based in DE.
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