Delaware · Private foundation
Viola Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $13k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 15
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $164k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Viola Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 8 | $13k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $12k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $13k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $25k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $12k | 83% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $14k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project Sage Inc | $14,839 | 6 | 0% |
| Salisbury Family Services Inc | $9,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Fresh Air Fund | $8,505 | 6 | 0% |
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | $3,774 | 1 | 0% |
| Foxcroft School | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Salisbury Housing Trust | $3,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Resilience Advocates for Ending Violence | $2,030 | 2 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Fund Texas Choice | $1,550 | 2 | 0% |
| American Indian College Fund | $1,200 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project Sage Inc | $14,839 | 6 | 0% |
| Salisbury Family Services Inc | $9,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Fresh Air Fund | $8,505 | 6 | 0% |
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | $3,774 | 1 | 0% |
| Foxcroft School | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Salisbury Housing Trust | $3,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Resilience Advocates for Ending Violence | $2,030 | 2 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Fund Texas Choice | $1,550 | 2 | 0% |
| American Indian College Fund | $1,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Music Mountain Incorporated | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United States Association for UNHCR | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Onestar Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Laundromat Project Inc | $525 | 1 | 0% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Salisbury Association Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $50 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($35k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Viola 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: Steven Aresty Foundation · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Elliott Family Foundation Inc · Anne and Rollin Bates Foundation Inc · The Fairfield Foundation · Block Family Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Viola Foundation
- How much does Viola Foundation give?
- Viola Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $12,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Viola Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
- Who are Viola Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Project Sage Inc ($15k), Salisbury Family Services Inc ($10k), Fresh Air Fund ($9k).
- Does Viola Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Viola Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Viola Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Steven Aresty Foundation, Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Viola Foundation based?
- Viola Foundation is based in DE.
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