Florida · Private foundation
Ventus Charitable 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.
- $11M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $55,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,935,382
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $53M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 83% of the organizations Ventus Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $791k 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 | 36 | $9.5M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $1.5M | 83% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $738k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $474k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $1.1M | 45% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $456k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $84k | 63% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $229k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education Foundation of Palm Beach County Inc | $6,425,984 | 8 | 53% |
| NEO Philanthropy Inc | $2,225,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Florida Philanthropic Network Inc | $325,000 | 4 | 8% |
| State Democracy Project | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $226,800 | 2 | n/a |
| Public Citizen Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Dreyfoos School of the Arts | $198,492 | 6 | n/a |
| Florida Nonprofit Alliance Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Florida Policy Institute Inc | $120,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Equal Ground Education Fund Inc | $110,000 | 2 | 10% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ventus Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 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: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc · Quantum Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Florida Philanthropic Network Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · Freedom Together Foundation
How this is measured
About Ventus Charitable Foundation
- How much does Ventus Charitable Foundation give?
- Ventus Charitable Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $10,710,382 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ventus Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (43%), Philanthropy (27%), Civil Rights (10%).
- Who are Ventus Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Education Foundation of Palm Beach County Inc ($6.4M), NEO Philanthropy Inc ($2.2M), Florida Philanthropic Network Inc ($325k).
- Does Ventus Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ventus Charitable 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 Ventus Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc, Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc, Quantum Foundation Inc.
- Where is Ventus Charitable Foundation based?
- Ventus Charitable Foundation is based in FL.
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