Minnesota · Private foundation
Ja Wedum Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 108
- Grants FY2024
- 84
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 77 to 93
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $169M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Ja Wedum Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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 | 88 | $1.3M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 84 | $1.4M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 89 | $1.6M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 91 | $2.9M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 77 | $1.7M | 43% |
| FY2019 | 83 | $1.3M | 34% |
| FY2018 | 93 | $1.5M | 39% |
| FY2017 | 91 | $3.6M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $3,791,243 | 8 | 0% |
| Fergus Area College Foundation | $563,000 | 8 | 51% |
| Norway House | $335,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Dunwoody College of Technology | $164,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Public Safety Foundation | $161,000 | 8 | 20% |
| Veterans Memorial Park | $152,000 | 3 | 67% |
| Knute Nelson | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Summit Academy Oic | $120,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Hope Academy Inc | $119,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Feeding Our Communities Partners | $119,000 | 6 | 6% |
Show all 176 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 128 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ja Wedum Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 140 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Otto Bremer Trust · Communitygiving · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc · Minnesota Community Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Morgan Family Foundation · Target Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ja Wedum Foundation
- How much does Ja Wedum Foundation give?
- Ja Wedum Foundation reported 108 grants totaling $1,326,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 77 and 93 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ja Wedum Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (55%), Public Benefit (13%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Ja Wedum Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Minnesota Foundation ($3.8M), Fergus Area College Foundation ($563k), Norway House ($335k).
- Does Ja Wedum Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ja Wedum Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ja Wedum Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Communitygiving, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
- Where is Ja Wedum Foundation based?
- Ja Wedum Foundation is based in MN.
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