Minnesota · Private foundation
Verna O Canova Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $267k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2024
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 27
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Verna O Canova Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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 | 26 | $267k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $353k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $370k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $267k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $439k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $348k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $307k | 16% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $349k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manito Life Center | $265,000 | 8 | 16% |
| Via of the Lehigh Valley Inc | $190,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Community Music School | $145,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Meals on Wheels of Lehigh County Inc | $135,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Literacy Center | $133,500 | 8 | 4% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Allentown Inc | $126,894 | 7 | 2% |
| Repertory Dance Theatre | $125,000 | 7 | 26% |
| Allentown Band Inc | $105,000 | 8 | 12% |
| Ripple Community Inc | $95,000 | 8 | 15% |
| Community Bike Works | $70,000 | 6 | 2% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($522k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Verna O Canova Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Harry C Trexler Estate · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Air Products Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · The Rider-Pool Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Leona Gruber Charitable Trust · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Verna O Canova Foundation
- How much does Verna O Canova Foundation give?
- Verna O Canova Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $266,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Verna O Canova Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Health (20%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Verna O Canova Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Manito Life Center ($265k), Via of the Lehigh Valley Inc ($190k), Community Music School ($145k).
- Does Verna O Canova Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Verna O Canova Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Verna O Canova Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Harry C Trexler Estate, Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, The Century Fund Trust.
- Where is Verna O Canova Foundation based?
- Verna O Canova Foundation is based in MN.
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