Minnesota · Private foundation
John and Margie Wiehoff 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.
- $985k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $190,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations John and Margie Wiehoff Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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 | 28 | $960k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $785k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $795k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $870k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $665k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $555k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $580k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $505k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| College of Saint Benedict | $796,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Ridgeview Foundation | $400,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $205,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Every Meal | $195,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Courage Kenny Foundation | $195,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Youth Frontiers Inc | $195,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Jeremiah Program | $185,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels - South Shore | $110,000 | 9 | 22% |
| The Lift Garage | $105,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Greater Twin Cities United Way | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John and Margie Wiehoff 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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · American Gift Fund · Bame Foundation · The K Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
Compare John and Margie Wiehoff Foundation with peer funders
About John and Margie Wiehoff Foundation
- How much does John and Margie Wiehoff Foundation give?
- John and Margie Wiehoff Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $985,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does John and Margie Wiehoff Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Health (28%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are John and Margie Wiehoff Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: College of Saint Benedict ($796k), Ridgeview Foundation ($400k), Second Harvest Heartland ($205k).
- Does John and Margie Wiehoff Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John and Margie Wiehoff 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 John and Margie Wiehoff Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation.
- Where is John and Margie Wiehoff Foundation based?
- John and Margie Wiehoff Foundation is based in MN.
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