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Henry E & Consuelo S Wenger Foundation Inc

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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
68
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$2.6MEnvironment$1.6MHealth$1.3MArts & Culture$617kPhilanthropy$345kScience & Tech$240kAnimals$239kHuman Services$164kOther$0
02FY2025 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k38 grants · $141k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $419k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $420k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE STRYKE FDN FOR RARE DISEASE$300,000
LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY$240,000
THAYER SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AT DARTMOUT$100,000
EPIPHANY SCHOOL$80,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$30,000
SEATTLE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$28,000
LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER$25,000
EVERGLADE FOUNDATION$25,000
BURT LAKE BAND OTTAWA-CHIPPEWA$24,000
WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN$22,800
RIVERSIDE THEATRE$20,000
564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATIN FOUNDATION$20,000
NW CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$20,000
Individual grant recipient$17,000
YOUTH EASTSIDE SERVICES$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION: $8k → 8%JACKSONHOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $3k → 5%WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $26k → 9%WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $25k → 9%WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $23k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
MO
MD
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 83 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

83 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
71

Total granted

$6.2M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+30%

Still filing today

65%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LT
    Little Traverse Conservancy Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $922k · revenue +60%
  • ES
    EPIPHANY SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $255k · revenue +64%
  • LM
    LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $220k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • 1M
    100 MILLION WAYS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • MD
    MI DEPT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
    one grant, 2019 · $130k
  • MC
    MOFFITT CENTER CANCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
9
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
10
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
11
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
12
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House At the Maria Fareri Children's Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bissell Pet Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

96 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 96 of the 168 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/96
Grantees still filing
70/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THAYER SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AT DARTMOUT: $620,000 · OtherTHAYER SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AT DARTMOUTTHE STRYKE FDN FOR RARE DISEASE: $600,000 · OtherTHE STRYKE FDN FOR RARE DISEASETHE BOT OF THE LELAND STANFORD JR UNIV: $375,000 · OtherTHE BOT OF THE LELAND STANFORD JR UNIV100 MILLION WAYS FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Other100 MILLION WAYS FOUNDATIONNW MICHIGAN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $153,000 · Other+101 more: $2,170,166 · Other+101 moreLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $922,000 · EnvironmentLittle Traverse Con…THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOUN…THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $100,000 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA LAND RE…MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $50,000 · Environment+7 more: $87,900 · Environment+7 moreEPIPHANY SCHOOL: $255,000 · EducationEPIPHANY SCHOOLTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $165,000 · EducationTHE HOTCHKISS SCH…The George Washington University: $105,000 · EducationThe George Washin…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $100,000 · EducationPresident and Fel…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUS…TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $78,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERF…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $68,500 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVER…CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $52,500 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE: $42,500 · Education+13 more: $201,900 · Education+13 moreHARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $133,000 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $100,000 · Arts & Culture564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $54,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC: $23,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $20,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureGROSSE POINTE THEATRE INC: $18,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $36,698 · Arts & CultureBROWN UNIVERSITY: $195,000 · Community ImprovementHARBOR HALL FOUNDATION: $41,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $5,000 · Community ImprovementLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $220,000 · Science & TechMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $95,000 · HealthINDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthJUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $15,000 · HealthYouth Eastside Services: $15,000 · HealthINNER COMPASS INITIATIVE INC: $14,500 · Health+4 more: $6,000 · Health
Other$4,168,166Environment$1,339,900Education$1,168,900Arts & Culture$429,698Community Improvement$241,000Science & Tech$220,000Health$170,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $922,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetEPIPHANY SCHOOL: $255,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $220,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $195,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $165,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $133,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe George Washington University: $105,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $100,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $95,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $93,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $78,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $77,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWomens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc: $73,800 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE: $71,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $68,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $65,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FUND FOR LSE: $55,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budget564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $54,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $52,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNW Childrens Foundation: $50,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $48,950 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $42,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHARBOR HALL FOUNDATION: $41,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetGROUNDWORK CENTER FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES INC: $34,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY: $27,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMontana Environmental Information Center: $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST THOMAS SCHOOL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHarbor Springs Library: $25,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetTHE ANDREW K DWYER FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC: $23,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRUSTICUS GARDEN CLUB INC: $21,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLSE FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGROSSE POINTE THEATRE INC: $18,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
  • Who funds EPIPHANY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The George Washington University ↗
  • Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Womens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN FUND FOR LSE ↗
  • Who funds 564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗

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.

Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community FoundationMI29.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · The Offield Family Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Baiardi Family Foundation Inc · Triford Foundation · The Lilly Christy Busch Hermann Foundation · Farmer Family Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Henry E & Consuelo S Wenger Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry E & Consuelo S Wenger Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • The Banner Lake Club Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Indian River Land Trust Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Henry E & Consuelo S Wenger Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 168 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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