New York · Private foundation
The Margaret L Wendt Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2024
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $779,306
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 39
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $75M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 65% of the organizations The Margaret L Wendt Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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 | 43 | $2.9M | 77% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $2.7M | 65% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $3.7M | 71% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $3.6M | 82% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $3.1M | 94% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Seminary | $779,306 | 1 | 12% |
| Niagara Aquarium Foundation | $600,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Ecmc Foundation Inc | $508,118 | 2 | 10% |
| Roycroft Campus Corporation | $495,833 | 3 | 25% |
| Buffalo Heritage Carousel Inc | $475,000 | 2 | 53% |
| King Urban Life Center Inc | $400,000 | 2 | 34% |
| Graycliff Conservancy Inc | $360,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society Inc | $354,625 | 5 | 1% |
| The Jacobs Institute Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Mount St Mary's Hospital Foundation Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 7% |
Show all 111 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Margaret L Wendt Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 99 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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The Baird Foundation · Cullen Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc · East Hill Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Margaret L Wendt Foundation
- How much does The Margaret L Wendt Foundation give?
- The Margaret L Wendt Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $2,882,759 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 39 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Margaret L Wendt Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Health (14%), Education (12%).
- Who are The Margaret L Wendt Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Buffalo Seminary ($779k), Niagara Aquarium Foundation ($600k), Ecmc Foundation Inc ($508k).
- Does The Margaret L Wendt Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Margaret L Wendt Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Margaret L Wendt Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The John R Oishei Foundation, The Western New York Foundation.
- Where is The Margaret L Wendt Foundation based?
- The Margaret L Wendt Foundation is based in NY.
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