Virginia B Toulmin Charitable Foundation Iii
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About Virginia B Toulmin Charitable Foundation Iii
The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation is dedicated to transforming lives, enhancing social change and cultivating a vibrant performing arts culture. We partner with community-based organizations to strengthen families and the arts, with a focus on women and girls, disadvantaged youth, and the performing arts.
Focus Areas
Performing ArtsArts EducationWomen & GirlsYouth DevelopmentHealth Care (women's health, nursing)Scholarships and MentorshipInternational development (women's professional education)
Who They Fund
survivors of human traffickingsexual and reproductive health organizations in the Global Southfemale composers, choreographers, and women-led arts projectsprofessional and aspiring performing artists (musicians, dancers, vocalists)
About Virginia B Toulmin Charitable Foundation Iii
Virginia B Toulmin Charitable Foundation III shows a distinctive pattern of pairing major arts support with grants for women’s health, trafficking survivor services, and youth opportunity. Across the recent grant list, the foundation backs orchestras, opera, theater, composers, and ballet, while also funding sexual and reproductive health work, anti-human trafficking services, nursing scholarships, and programs for children and families. In the performing arts, the foundation has supported institutions and creators in New York, Florida, and beyond, including National Sawdust and Sarasota Orchestra, with grants tied to composer fellowships, commissions, and season support. Its health and gender-related giving reaches organizations such as Fos Feminista and Covenant House, pointing to a portfolio that combines cultural patronage with direct-service and advocacy work. The foundation also makes room for educational and community support, including grants for scholarships and wraparound services. The result is a grantmaking profile that is broad in subject matter but consistent in emphasis: women and girls, vulnerable youth, and the performing arts.
What Virginia B Toulmin Charitable Foundation Iii Funds
Performing arts is one of the clearest lanes in the foundation’s portfolio. It gave $200,000 to League of American Orchestras for the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Orchestral Commissions Program, and $170,500 to Opera America for opera grants for female composers. It also funded National Sawdust for composer fellowships and commissions. Women’s health and global access is another major focus. The foundation granted $260,000 to Fos Feminista for scaling up financial resilience for sexual and reproductive health organizations across the Global South, and $250,000 to the same organization the prior year for expanding access to sexual and reproductive health in the Global South. Its youth and family work appears through direct-service support as well. River Fund New York received $150,000 for educational pathways and general operating support, while SeriousFun Children’s Network got $150,000 for craniofacial family programming pilot and media/public relations support.
How Virginia B Toulmin Charitable Foundation Iii Gives
Typical grant size centers on a median of $50,000, with a lower quartile of $18,300 and an upper quartile of $100,000. The recent list includes several six-figure awards, but the distribution also reaches into smaller project and fellowship grants. The foundation is a regular funder, not a DAF, and it does not make program-related investments. Recipients appear across multiple years, including repeated support for Covenant House, Fos Feminista, Sarasota Orchestra, Sarasota Opera Association, Sunrise Association, and National Sawdust, which suggests ongoing relationships rather than one-off awards. The grant list also includes both operating support and project-specific funding.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$5.9M
Total Assets
$147.1M
Total Revenue
$11M
Total Expenses
$9.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $18K and $100K, with a median of $50K.
25th Percentile
$18K
Median
$50K
75th Percentile
$100K
Geographic Reach
Regional18 states funded
About 5% of grants go to recipients in NY.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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