Wisconsin · Private foundation
Sally Mead Hands 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.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $320,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 52
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $33M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Sally Mead Hands Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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 | 48 | $2.2M | 27% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $1.8M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $2.0M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $2.1M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $2.0M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Citizens Climate Education Corp | $1,679,000 | 6 | 8% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $985,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest | $630,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Planned Parenthood of Illinois | $475,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc | $450,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Project Drawdown | $445,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | $437,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Transportation Riders United Inc | $388,000 | 6 | 43% |
| Planned Parenthood of Michigan | $380,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Center for Neighborhood Technology | $375,000 | 6 | 2% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sally Mead Hands Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 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 Evjue Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · United States Energy Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Madison Community Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Nature Conservancy · Patagoniaorg · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sally Mead Hands Foundation
- How much does Sally Mead Hands Foundation give?
- Sally Mead Hands Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $2,218,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 52 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Sally Mead Hands Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (60%), Health (14%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are Sally Mead Hands Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Citizens Climate Education Corp ($1.7M), World Wildlife Fund Inc ($985k), Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest ($630k).
- Does Sally Mead Hands Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sally Mead Hands 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 Sally Mead Hands Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Evjue Foundation Inc, Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc, Maine Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Sally Mead Hands Foundation based?
- Sally Mead Hands Foundation is based in WI.
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