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Viola Foundation at a glance

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Viola Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$26kFood & Nutrition$13kRecreation & Sports$9kHealth$6kEducation$4kReligion$4kInternational$4kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$164k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT SAGE$2,500
FOOD OF LIFE$2,000
CT FOODSHARE$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
THE FRESH AIR FUND$1,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$1,000
SALISBURY FARMILY SERVICE$1,000
MUSIC MOUNTAIN INC$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RESILIENCE: $1k → 8%WOMEN'S SUUPORT SERVICES: $3k → 9%RESILIENCE: $1k → 8%WOMEN'S SUUPORT SERVICES: $3k → 9%WOMEN'S SUUPORT SERVICES: $3k → 9%SALISBURY FAMILY SERVICES: $8k → 9%SALISBURY FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 9%PROJECT SAGE: $3k → 9%PROJECT SAGE: $2k → 9%PROJECT SAGE: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
PA
CT
CO
VA
DE
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$66k · 13 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
15

Total granted

$66k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+1%

Still filing today

62%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PS
    PROJECT SAGE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +79%
  • FRESH AIR FUND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +64%
  • Foxcroft School
    2× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • CF
    CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +97%
  • SH
    SALISBURY HOUSING TRUST
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
2
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
3
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
4
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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5
Families Usa Foundation Inc

Our vision is a nation where the best health and health care are equally accessible and affordable to all.

Human Services
6
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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7
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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8
Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment
9
United States Artists Inc

To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.

Arts & Culture
10
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
11
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
12
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Music Mountain Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $13,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $4,529 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $4,000 · OtherST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCHCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $3,774 · OtherCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCFOOD FOR LIFE: $3,000 · OtherFOOD FOR LIFECT FOODSHARE: $2,000 · OtherFOOD OF LIFE: $2,000 · OtherFUNDS FOR WOMEN: $1,600 · Other+12 more: $7,498 · Other+12 morePROJECT SAGE INC: $14,839 · Human ServicesPROJECT SAGE INCSALISBURY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $9,500 · Human ServicesSALISBURY FAMILY SERVICES INCRESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE: $2,030 · Human ServicesRESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING V…FRESH AIR FUND: $8,505 · Recreation & SportsFRESH AIR …Foxcroft School: $3,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $1,200 · EducationMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR: $1,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $500 · International+1 more: $50 · InternationalSALISBURY HOUSING TRUST: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterFUND TEXAS CHOICE: $1,550 · Environment
Other$41,901Human Services$26,369Recreation & Sports$8,505Education$4,200International$3,550Housing & Shelter$3,000Environment$1,550

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROJECT SAGE INC: $14,839 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSALISBURY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $9,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $8,505 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $3,774 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoxcroft School: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSALISBURY HOUSING TRUST: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE: $2,030 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUND TEXAS CHOICE: $1,550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ONESTAR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Laundromat Project Inc: $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALISBURY ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Steven Aresty Foundat…Northwest Connecticut…Berkshire Taconic Com…Elliott Family Founda…Anne and Rollin Bates…The Fairfield Foundat…Block Family Foundati…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Steven Aresty FoundationNY15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Viola Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Viola Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • The Salisbury Association Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Salisbury Housing Trust: 25% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Music Mountain Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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