California · Private foundation
Visa Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $39M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 81
- Grants FY2025
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,600,733
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 55
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $403M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations Visa Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M 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 | 64 | $27M | 27% |
| FY2024 | 55 | $25M | 53% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $25M | 69% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $25M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $25M | 67% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $20M | 85% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $10M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's World Banking Inc | $21,127,682 | 7 | 45% |
| Tipping Point Community | $17,250,000 | 6 | 14% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $10,325,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Technoserve Inc | $5,650,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Pro Mujer Inc | $5,000,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Black Economic Alliance Foundation | $5,000,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Gavi Alliance | $4,500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vilcap Inc | $3,967,000 | 4 | 16% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $3,500,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us | $3,300,000 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 89 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($38M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Visa Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 83 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Rockefeller Foundation · The Ford Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Gates Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Mastercard Impact Fund
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Visa Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Visa Foundation
- How much does Visa Foundation give?
- Visa Foundation reported 81 grants totaling $38,788,508 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 55 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Visa Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (45%), Community Improvement (19%), Philanthropy (15%).
- Who are Visa Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Women's World Banking Inc ($21M), Tipping Point Community ($17M), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($10M).
- Does Visa Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Visa 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 Visa Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Rockefeller Foundation.
- Where is Visa Foundation based?
- Visa Foundation is based in CA.
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