Connecticut · Private foundation
The Velaj 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.
- $256k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Velaj Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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 | 10 | $256k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $202k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $213k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $205k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $232k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $200k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $177k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $224k | 52% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education for Employment | $740,500 | 9 | 2% |
| Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc | $150,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Mill River Collaborative Inc | $142,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Person to Person Inc | $90,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Round Hill Nursery School Inc | $64,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Family Centers Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pacific House Inc | $45,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Filling in the Blanks Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Round Hill Community Church Inc | $26,200 | 4 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($472k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Velaj 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Claire L Helsing Foundation · Howard and Amy Finkelstein Foundation Inc · Rich Foundation Inc · Simmons Family Foundation Inc · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Schwartz Family Foundation · Malkin Fund Inc · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Synchrony Foundation
How this is measured
About The Velaj Foundation
- How much does The Velaj Foundation give?
- The Velaj Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $256,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Velaj Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (38%), Health (15%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are The Velaj Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Education for Employment ($741k), Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc ($150k), Mill River Collaborative Inc ($143k).
- Does The Velaj Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Velaj 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 Velaj Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Peoples United Community Foundation, Claire L Helsing Foundation.
- Where is The Velaj Foundation based?
- The Velaj Foundation is based in CT.
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