Wisconsin · Private foundation
Salzwedel Family Fund Ltd
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.
- $778k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,319
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $345,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 49
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Salzwedel Family Fund Ltd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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 | 44 | $778k | 61% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $773k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $630k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $558k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $517k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $921k | 59% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wartburg College | $1,290,345 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $379,307 | 6 | 0% |
| Aldo Leopold Foundation Inc | $223,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Edgewood High School | $184,120 | 6 | n/a |
| Center for Black Excellence and Culture Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Centro Hispano Inc | $135,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Overture Center Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $83,150 | 7 | 0% |
| United Way of Dane County Inc | $76,544 | 3 | 0% |
| Heartland Church Inc | $65,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 85 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 74 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Salzwedel Family Fund Ltd 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: Madison Community Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · Veridian Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Salzwedel Family Fund Ltd
- How much does Salzwedel Family Fund Ltd give?
- Salzwedel Family Fund Ltd reported 44 grants totaling $778,490 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 49 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Salzwedel Family Fund Ltd fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Religion (18%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Salzwedel Family Fund Ltd's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Wartburg College ($1.3M), University of Wisconsin Foundation ($379k), Aldo Leopold Foundation Inc ($223k).
- Does Salzwedel Family Fund Ltd fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Salzwedel Family Fund Ltd 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 Salzwedel Family Fund Ltd?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Madison Community Foundation, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, The Evjue Foundation Inc.
- Where is Salzwedel Family Fund Ltd based?
- Salzwedel Family Fund Ltd is based in WI.
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