Wisconsin · Private foundation
The Presto Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $875k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 62
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $454k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $102,354
- Organizations funded a year
- 64 to 77
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 61% of the organizations The Presto Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 78% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k 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 | 60 | $405k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 64 | $249k | 61% |
| FY2023 | 77 | $332k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 71 | $458k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Foundation Inc | $166,260 | 2 | 0% |
| The Uw-Platteville Foundation and Alumni Association Inc | $145,600 | 2 | 1% |
| Eau Claire City-County Health Department | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Island Chain of Lakes Association Inc | $54,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Northern Wisconsin State Fair Assoc | $48,307 | 1 | 1% |
| Chippewa Falls Rotary Foundation Inc | $33,600 | 1 | 41% |
| Homes for Our Troops Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Uw-Stout Foundation and Alumni Association Inc | $11,850 | 3 | 0% |
| The Sheriffs Foundation of Broward County Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 110 recipients with no EIN on record ($777k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Presto Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Eau Claire Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · L E Phillips Family Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Pablo Foundation Inc · Jpc Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Baird Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Presto Foundation
- How much does The Presto Foundation give?
- The Presto Foundation reported 62 itemized grants totaling $453,754, out of $875,467 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 64 and 77 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Presto Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (13%), Philanthropy (7%), Employment (6%).
- Who are The Presto Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Foundation Inc ($166k), The Uw-Platteville Foundation and Alumni Association Inc ($146k), Eau Claire City-County Health Department ($75k).
- Does The Presto Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Presto Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Presto Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Green Bay Packers Foundation, The Jamf Nation Global Foundation, Eau Claire Community Foundation.
- Where is The Presto Foundation based?
- The Presto Foundation is based in WI.
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