Tennessee · Private foundation
Vulcano Family 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.
- $6k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 4
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Vulcano Family 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; $1k 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 | 6 | $6k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $3k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $1k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $2k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $300 | 100% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $313 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $3,150 | 3 | 0% |
| Charlie's Angels Saving Animals Inc | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Waldens Puddle Wildlife Rehabilitation & Educatio | $2,205 | 1 | 0% |
| Nashville Public Radio | $1,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Roca Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stewart County Animal Management Program | $100 | 1 | 1% |
| For Goodness Cakes | $100 | 2 | 0% |
| Nashville Rescue Mission | $63 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Vulcano Family 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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Vulcano Family Foundation
- How much does Vulcano Family Foundation give?
- Vulcano Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $5,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Vulcano Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (39%), Public Safety & Disaster (23%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
- Who are Vulcano Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: World Central Kitchen Inc ($3k), Charlie's Angels Saving Animals Inc ($3k), Waldens Puddle Wildlife Rehabilitation & Educatio ($2k).
- Does Vulcano Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Vulcano Family 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 Vulcano Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Vulcano Family Foundation based?
- Vulcano Family Foundation is based in TN.
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