Maryland · Private foundation
The Visclosky 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.
- $19k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 6
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $170k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Visclosky Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $19k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $17k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $16k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $14k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $6k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana Legal Services Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Shirley Heinze Land Trust Inc | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Folk Arts Rajasthan Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Healing Health and Hope Inc | $500 | 1 | 3% |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($42k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Visclosky Foundation
- How much does The Visclosky Foundation give?
- The Visclosky Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $19,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Visclosky Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (46%), Crime & Legal (21%), Environment (18%).
- Who are The Visclosky Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Indiana Legal Services Inc ($15k), Shirley Heinze Land Trust Inc ($13k), Folk Arts Rajasthan Inc ($2k).
- Does The Visclosky Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Visclosky 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 Visclosky Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Visclosky Foundation based?
- The Visclosky Foundation is based in MD.
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