Virginia · Private foundation
The Volgenau Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $13M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2024
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $125,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $4,146,628
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 57
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 16
- Total assets, FY2024
- $166M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations The Volgenau Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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 | 55 | $13M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $11M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $9.3M | 10% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $9.2M | 12% |
| FY2020 | 57 | $15M | 23% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $7.5M | 11% |
| FY2018 | 51 | $14M | 41% |
| FY2017 | 39 | $6.7M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Trail Conservancy | $4,450,000 | 7 | 20% |
| The Nature Conservancy of California | $4,200,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Yellowstone to Yukon | $4,000,000 | 8 | 17% |
| Greater Yellowstone Coalition | $3,700,000 | 8 | 16% |
| National Parks Conservation Association | $3,260,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation | $3,000,000 | 7 | 23% |
| Defenders of Wildlife | $2,515,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Sustainable Markets Foundation | $2,355,308 | 3 | 5% |
| Rewild | $2,051,438 | 1 | 4% |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | $2,000,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($27M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Volgenau Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Patagoniaorg · Resources Legacy Fund · Wilburforce Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Clif Family Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The New-Land Foundation Inc · The Pew Charitable Trusts · The Fanwood Foundation · Tortuga Charitable Foundation · Weeden Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Volgenau Foundation
- How much does The Volgenau Foundation give?
- The Volgenau Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $13,446,628 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 57 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Volgenau Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (64%), Animals (16%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are The Volgenau Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Appalachian Trail Conservancy ($4.5M), The Nature Conservancy of California ($4.2M), Yellowstone to Yukon ($4.0M).
- Does The Volgenau Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Volgenau 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 Volgenau Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Resources Legacy Fund, Wilburforce Foundation.
- Where is The Volgenau Foundation based?
- The Volgenau Foundation is based in VA.
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