Florida · Private foundation
Volo 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.
- $14M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 63
- Grants FY2024
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,938,522
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 77
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 16
- Total assets, FY2024
- $126M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Volo Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M 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 | 61 | $14M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $12M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $6.0M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 77 | $7.7M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $6.1M | 62% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $3.0M | 31% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $1.4M | 22% |
| FY2017 | 25 | $2.0M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $11,749,237 | 8 | 1% |
| The Cleo Institute Inc | $5,364,242 | 7 | 62% |
| Foundation for Love and Acceptance Inc | $3,000,000 | 1 | 83% |
| Amplio Network | $2,700,000 | 8 | 51% |
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | $1,463,271 | 1 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $1,210,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Deployus Inc | $1,150,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Punahou School | $1,025,000 | 5 | 0% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $935,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Scripps Research Institute | $815,250 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 115 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Volo Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 108 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: United States Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Energy Foundation · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Orlando Magic Youth Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Volo Foundation
- How much does Volo Foundation give?
- Volo Foundation reported 63 grants totaling $13,732,507 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 77 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Volo Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (46%), Education (18%), Health (11%).
- Who are Volo Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($12M), The Cleo Institute Inc ($5.4M), Foundation for Love and Acceptance Inc ($3.0M).
- Does Volo Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Volo 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 Volo Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United States Energy Foundation, Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc, The Energy Foundation.
- Where is Volo Foundation based?
- Volo Foundation is based in FL.
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