Valley Fund Charitable Foundation

• The filing says this foundation gives by invitation only and does not accept unsolicited requests, so a cold application is unlikely to be considered and your organisation should not send one.
• No geographic focus is stated, so location alone should not rule you out, though most grants have gone to Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Maryland.
• If you are invited, a request near the median grant of $25,000 is realistic, since half of its 60 grants to organisations were $25,000 or less.
• About 8 in 10 grants fell between $2,500 and $250,000, a typical band rather than a ceiling, as its largest was about $2,950,000 to National Philanthropic Trust, and 31% of its grant dollars went to organisations it had funded in earlier filings, so an existing relationship matters.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• National Philanthropic Trust · Valley Fund Charitable Fund
  $2,931,9032024 tax year
• Lumind IDSC Foundation · General & Unrestricted
  $1,010,0002024 tax year
• National Park Foundation · General & Unrestricted
  $150,0002024 tax year
• Massachusetts General Hospital · Work in the Down Syndrome Program in the department of genetics under the direction of Dr. Brian Skotko
  $50,0002024 tax year
• ST Jude Childrens Research Hospital Inc · General & Unrestricted
  $50,0002024 tax year
• Cape May Point Science Center · Expenditure Responsibility Grant
  $50,0002024 tax year
• New England Aquarium · General & Unrestricted
  $50,0002024 tax year
• Wellesley Food Pantry · General & Unrestricted
  $25,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.