Connecticut · Private foundation
Emwiga 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.
- $907k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 68
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $825k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 55
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Emwiga Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k 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 | 58 | $809k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 55 | $525k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $421k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $155k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $263k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 52 | $883k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Rockefeller University | $375,856 | 2 | 0% |
| National Parks Conservation Association | $315,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Readworksinc | $275,399 | 2 | 8% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Fish and Wildlife Foundation | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Grand Teton National Park Foundation | $121,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Wnet | $101,444 | 1 | 0% |
| Mercy Corps | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Greenwich Land Trust Inc | $61,500 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($548k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Emwiga Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 76 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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Oaklawn Foundationinc · Winokur Family Foundation Inc · The Kneisel Foundation Inc · Carverdelaney Families Foundation Inc · Malkin Fund Inc · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Emwiga Foundation
- How much does Emwiga Foundation give?
- Emwiga Foundation reported 68 itemized grants totaling $825,000, out of $906,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 55 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Emwiga Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), International (10%), Environment (10%).
- Who are Emwiga Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Rockefeller University ($376k), National Parks Conservation Association ($315k), Readworksinc ($275k).
- Does Emwiga Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Emwiga 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 Emwiga Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The Bessemer Giving Fund.
- Where is Emwiga Foundation based?
- Emwiga Foundation is based in CT.
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