Utah · Private foundation
Drew Arthur Wendt Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $86k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $843k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Drew Arthur Wendt Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $86k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $88k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $78k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $104k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $106k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $71k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $82k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $86k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho Foodbank Warehouse | $73,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Utah Food Bank | $73,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wasatch Homeless Health Care | $69,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $59,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Huntsman Cancer Foundation | $49,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc | $45,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Road Home | $45,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Autism Research Institute | $40,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Adopt-A-Native Elder | $39,000 | 9 | 0% |
| South Valley Sanctuary Inc | $38,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho Foodbank Warehouse | $73,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Utah Food Bank | $73,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wasatch Homeless Health Care | $69,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $59,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Huntsman Cancer Foundation | $49,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc | $45,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Road Home | $45,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Autism Research Institute | $40,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Adopt-A-Native Elder | $39,000 | 9 | 0% |
| South Valley Sanctuary Inc | $38,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Diabetes Action Research and Education Foundation | $37,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Charity Navigator | $22,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Children's Miracle Network | $18,900 | 9 | 0% |
| Care for Life Inc | $13,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Utah Police Civilian Association | $11,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Special Olympics Utah Inc | $8,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Wild Grief | $8,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Utah Pet Partners | $6,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc | $5,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Helphopelive Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yoga Forward Inc | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Miraclefeet | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Donorschooseorg | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($112k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Drew Arthur Wendt Memorial Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · American Express Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Utah Medical Association Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
Compare Drew Arthur Wendt Memorial Foundation with peer funders
About Drew Arthur Wendt Memorial Foundation
- How much does Drew Arthur Wendt Memorial Foundation give?
- Drew Arthur Wendt Memorial Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $86,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Drew Arthur Wendt Memorial Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (48%), Food & Nutrition (19%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Drew Arthur Wendt Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Idaho Foodbank Warehouse ($73k), Utah Food Bank ($73k), Wasatch Homeless Health Care ($70k).
- Does Drew Arthur Wendt Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Drew Arthur Wendt Memorial 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 Drew Arthur Wendt Memorial Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, American Express Foundation, C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Drew Arthur Wendt Memorial Foundation based?
- Drew Arthur Wendt Memorial Foundation is based in UT.
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