Texas · Private foundation
The Dixie Starnes Wenger Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $260k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 67
- Grants FY2024
- 62
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 57 to 70
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations The Dixie Starnes Wenger Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 66 | $260k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 62 | $220k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 70 | $300k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 66 | $240k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 67 | $240k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 57 | $240k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 69 | $255k | 28% |
| FY2017 | 67 | $275k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston | $281,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels | $59,000 | 7 | 8% |
| Rwanda Shines | $54,000 | 8 | 8% |
| San Antonio Christian Dental Clinic | $54,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Adopt a Needy Family Inc | $52,000 | 8 | 26% |
| Gonzales Christian Assistance Ministry | $40,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Guide Dogs of Texas Inc | $39,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Gonzales Youth Center | $37,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Gonzales Main Street Inc | $36,500 | 8 | 34% |
| Alamo Area Partners for Animalwelfare | $35,750 | 8 | n/a |
Show all 95 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 72 recipients with no EIN on record ($680k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Dixie Starnes Wenger Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 82 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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Keith M Orme and Pat Vigeon Orme Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Dixie Starnes Wenger Foundation with peer funders
About The Dixie Starnes Wenger Foundation
- How much does The Dixie Starnes Wenger Foundation give?
- The Dixie Starnes Wenger Foundation reported 67 grants totaling $260,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 70 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Dixie Starnes Wenger Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Religion (18%), Health (16%).
- Who are The Dixie Starnes Wenger Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ($281k), Meals on Wheels ($59k), Rwanda Shines ($54k).
- Does The Dixie Starnes Wenger Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Dixie Starnes Wenger Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Dixie Starnes Wenger Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation, Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Dixie Starnes Wenger Foundation based?
- The Dixie Starnes Wenger Foundation is based in TX.
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