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Vna Foundation Inc

Altamonta Spring, FL · EIN 59-2498794. Reported 56 grants totalling $598,500 to 25 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$598,500granted, 2021-2024
25organizations funded
57%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,245,078assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Vna Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $3,000 and the largest $25,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
3 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
24 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
27 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Meals on Wheels Etc IncSanford, FL$70,000442024
Harbor House of Central FloridaOrlando, FL$64,000442024
Coalition for the HomelessOrlando, FL$56,000332024
Seniors First Foundation IncOrlando, FL$50,000332024
Canine Companions for IndependenceSanta Rosa, CA$36,000442024
Idignity IncOrlando, FL$35,000442024
Impower IncLongwood, FL$34,500442024
Jewish Family Services of GreaterWinter Park, FL$26,000332024
Quest IncOrlando, FL$26,000332023
University of Central Fl FoundationOrlando, FL$25,000112024
University of Central Florida FdnOrlando, FL$25,000112023
Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida IncOrlando, FL$20,000112021
Seniors First IncOrlando, FL$20,000112021
Dave's House IncOrlando, FL$15,000222023
Habitat for HumanityOrlando, FL$15,000332023
Winter Park Day Nursery IncWinter Park, FL$13,000332023
Alzheimer's & Dementia ResourceAltamonte Springs, FL$10,000222023
Easter Seals Florida IncWinter Park, FL$10,000222023
Jewish Family Services of Greater Orlando IncWinter Park, FL$10,000112021
Lift Concepts Inc Dba Quest IncOrlando, FL$10,000112024
Primrose Center IncOrlando, FL$10,000222023
Alzheimer's & Dementia Resource Center IncAltamonte Springs, FL$5,000112021
Easterseals Northeast Central Florida IncDaytona Beach, FL$5,000112021
PrimroseOrlando, FL$5,000112021
Grace Medical HomeOrlando, FL$3,000112023

15 of 25 (60%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 57%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
23 grants
Health Care
3 grants
Food & Nutrition
3 grants
Education
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202114$152,000$10,000
202215$135,500$8,000
202317$159,000$7,500
202410$152,000$13,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 94% of this one's giving went to organizations in Florida. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Florida
$562K
California
$36K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Florida.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Vna Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 1180 Spring Centre S Blvd 304, Altamonte Springs, FL, 32714. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 59-2498794 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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