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Yavanna Foundation

Name: Yavanna Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

47
grants reported: $1.4M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $10,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

democracy education focus progress voices

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Funding pattern

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Top recipients

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Post Carbon Institute4 grants · $540,000
Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future4 grants · $162,000
Media Matters for America4 grants · $100,000
Ground Game Fund1 grant · $100,000
Caminante Society4 grants · $100,000
Working America Education Fund1 grant · $50,000
The Voter Participation Center1 grant · $50,000
Transition US1 grant · $40,000
Overnight Productions3 grants · $40,000
Secular Student Alliance3 grants · $35,000

Giving over time

$386,000

2022

$345,000

2023

$322,000

2024

$341,000

2025

Grant history

All 47 reported grants, largest first.

$220,000
Post Carbon Institute · Corvallis, OR · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$150,000
Post Carbon Institute · Corvallis, OR · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$100,000
Ground Game Fund · Manchaca, TX · 2024
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$100,000
Post Carbon Institute · Corvallis, OR · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$70,000
Post Carbon Institute · Corvallis, OR · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$50,000
Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future · Red Wing, MN · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$50,000
Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future · Red Wing, MN · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$50,000
The Voter Participation Center · Washington, DC · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$50,000
Working America Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$40,000
Transition US · Sebastopol, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$35,000
Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future · Red Wing, MN · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$30,000
Caminante Society · Richmond, CA · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$30,000
Caminante Society · Healdsburg, CA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$27,000
Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future · Red Wing, MN · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$25,000
Media Matters for America · Washington, DC · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$25,000
Public Citizen Foundation · Washington, DC · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$25,000
Media Matters for America · Washington, DC · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$25,000
Media Matters for America · Washington, DC · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$25,000
Media Matters for America · Washington, DC · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$25,000
Secular Student Alliance · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$24,000
Caminante Society · Healdsburg, CA · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$20,000
Overnight Productions · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$16,000
Caminante Society · Healdsburg, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$10,000
Overnight Productions · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$10,000
Tesseract Research Center · Washington, DC · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$10,000
Tides Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
Voices for Progress Education Fund
$10,000
Overnight Productions · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$10,000
Tesseract Research Center · Washington, DC · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$10,000
Wikimedia Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$10,000
American Promise Education Fund · Concord, MA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$10,000
Institute for Labor & Mental Health · Berkeley, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$10,000
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center · Occidental, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$10,000
The Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solution · Yellow Springs, OH · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$10,000
William J Brennan Jr Center for Justice · New York, NY · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$10,000
Yellow Springs Dharma Center · Yellow Spgs, OH · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$6,000
Apis Arborea · Sebastopol, CA · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$6,000
Internet Archive · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$5,000
Internet Archive · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$5,000
Maps · Pasadena, CA · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$5,000
Northern California Public Broadcasting · Santa Cruz, CA · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$5,000
Secular Student Alliance · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$5,000
Wikimedia Foundation · Washington, DC · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$5,000
Internet Archive · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$5,000
Secular Student Alliance · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$5,000
Wikimedia Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$5,000
Yellow Springs Dharma Center · Yellow Spgs, OH · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$5,000
Knit the Rainbow · New York, NY · 2023
General & Unrestricted

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