Florida · Private foundation
Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2024
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $35,335
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 43
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $67M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 41 | $3.8M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $6.1M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $4.7M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $2.7M | 53% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $1.4M | 44% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $1.3M | 15% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $53k | 25% |
| FY2017 | 28 | $79k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trevecca Nazarene University | $11,712,136 | 6 | 4% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc | $904,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Naples First Church of the Nazarene | $618,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Harvest Hope Food Bank | $278,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Meyer Center for Special Children | $276,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Greenville Literacy Association | $266,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Children's Museum of the Upstate Inc | $250,300 | 6 | 2% |
| Safe Harbor Inc | $244,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The South Carolina Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $244,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Project Host Inc | $244,000 | 4 | 5% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Scsymmes Foundation · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Sisk Foundation Buncombe St Methodist Church · John I Smith Charities Inc · Prisma Health-Upstate
How this is measured
Compare Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation with peer funders
About Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation
- How much does Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation give?
- Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $3,844,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (60%), Housing & Shelter (9%), Religion (7%).
- Who are Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Trevecca Nazarene University ($12M), Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc ($905k), Naples First Church of the Nazarene ($619k).
- Does Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner 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 Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Daniel-Mickel Foundation, The Jolley Foundation, United Way of Greenville County Inc.
- Where is Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation based?
- Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation is based in FL.
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