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The Ronald & Joyce Wanek Foundation Ltd

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.8M
Granted FY2023
67
Grants FY2023
67
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$1,139,179
Organizations funded a year
16 to 69
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
13
Total assets, FY2023
$93M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations The Ronald & Joyce Wanek Foundation Ltd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202367$4.8M40%
FY202269$2.1M70%
FY202126$581k54%
FY202024$915k88%
FY201716$6.5Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$5.8MHealth$3.4MScience & Tech$3.3MReligion$576kPublic Benefit$458kArts & Culture$222kMembership Benefit$195kCommunity Improvement$169kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
OH
PA
CA
MO
VA
AR
TN
NC
DC
MS
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The STEM Academy Inc$1,777,260259%
Lutheran High School Association of Greater Detroit$1,139,1791n/a
School District of Arcadia$492,4952n/a
Western Technical College Foundation Inc$385,231318%
Woodlawn Cemetery Association$195,000321%
Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc$115,85410%
American Heart Association Inc$100,00010%
Drug Free America Foundation Inc$65,00038%
Ashley for the Arts$60,00012%
Christ Lutheran Church$60,0004n/a
Show all 65 grantees
All grantees of The Ronald & Joyce Wanek Foundation Ltd by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The STEM Academy Inc$1,777,260259%
Lutheran High School Association of Greater Detroit$1,139,1791n/a
School District of Arcadia$492,4952n/a
Western Technical College Foundation Inc$385,231318%
Woodlawn Cemetery Association$195,000321%
Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc$115,85410%
American Heart Association Inc$100,00010%
Drug Free America Foundation Inc$65,00038%
Ashley for the Arts$60,00012%
Christ Lutheran Church$60,0004n/a
Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center Inc$50,00020%
Florida Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc$50,00013%
Feeding America$50,00010%
Christian Crossings Inc$50,000120%
The Florida Orchestra$40,00010%
Pepin Academies Foundation Inc$40,000210%
Ashley K-12 Robotics Inc$32,0002n/a
Academy Prep Center of Tampa Inc$30,00020%
Dysautonomia Project Inc$27,50022%
Cochrane-Fountain City School District$26,2562n/a
Davie County Schools$25,6682n/a
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation$25,00050%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$25,00050%
Gasparilla Music Foundation Inc$25,00011%
Friends of Ybor Inc$25,00013%
School District of la Crosse$21,3141n/a
Florida Council on Economic Education Inc$20,75022%
Minnesota State College Southeast Foundation$20,00012%
Seven Rivers Robotics Coalition Inc$20,0001n/a
Jehovah Lutheran Church$20,0002n/a
Boy Scouts of America 624 Gateway Area Council$20,00011%
Resilient Cities Catalyst Inc$15,00011%
Ascension Evangelical Lutheran Church$15,0003n/a
Special Operations Warrior Foundation$15,00010%
Independence 30 School District$10,4722n/a
Heart Gallery of Tampa Inc$10,00012%
Hillsborough County Bar Foundation$10,00013%
Hillsborough Co Bar Association Inc$10,00011%
Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc$10,00010%
Positive Impact Ministries Inc$10,0001n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc$10,00010%
Erwin Township Historical Society$10,00023%
Winona Sportsmens Club Inc$10,000110%
Starting Right Now$10,00010%
Ashley's Angels Inc$10,0001n/a
Westby Area School District$8,8002n/a
Aquinas Catholic Schools Inc$7,9971n/a
School District of Mondovi$7,8161n/a
Cuban Club Foundation Inc$7,50031%
Tampa Preparatory School Inc$7,50010%
Arcadia Area Historical Society$7,198217%
Christ-St Johns Lutheran School$5,9981n/a
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$5,00010%
National Pediatric Cancer Foundation Inc$5,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$5,00010%
Womens Conference of Florida Inc$5,00011%
Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc$5,00011%
Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc$4,50020%
Osseo-Fairchild School District$4,2751n/a
Davidson-Davie Community College$4,00010%
Aquinas Catholic Schools Foundation Inc$4,00010%
Riverway Learning Community$2,99810%
Dawning Family Services Inc$2,50010%
Chippewa Valley Technical College Foundation Inc$2,40011%
Northeast Mississippi Community College Development Foundation Inc$80010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Ronald & Joyce Wanek Foundation Ltd supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe STEM Academy Inc: $1,777,260 over 2y, 59% of budgetWestern Technical College Foundation Inc: $385,231 over 3y, 18% of budgetWoodlawn Cemetery Association: $195,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetFlorida Atlantic University Foundation Inc: $115,854 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDrug Free America Foundation Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetAshley for the Arts: $60,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTampa Bay Performing Arts Center Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFeeding America: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Crossings Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetThe Florida Orchestra: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPepin Academies Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetAcademy Prep Center of Tampa Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDysautonomia Project Inc: $27,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetLe Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGasparilla Music Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFriends of Ybor Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFlorida Council on Economic Education Inc: $20,750 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMinnesota State College Southeast Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 624 Gateway Area Council: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetResilient Cities Catalyst Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSpecial Operations Warrior Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHeart Gallery of Tampa Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHillsborough County Bar Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHillsborough Co Bar Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFeeding America Tampa Bay Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetErwin Township Historical Society: $10,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetWinona Sportsmens Club Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetStarting Right Now: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCuban Club Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTampa Preparatory School Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArcadia Area Historical Society: $7,198 over 2y, 17% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Pediatric Cancer Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Conference of Florida Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGreater Tampa Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson-Davie Community College: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAquinas Catholic Schools Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRiverway Learning Community: $2,998 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDawning Family Services Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChippewa Valley Technical College Foundation Inc: $2,400 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNortheast Mississippi Community College Development Foundation Inc: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 47.

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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.

Ashley Charitable Foundation LtdWI32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ashley Charitable Foundation Ltd · Vinik Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Frank E Duckwall Foundation · Winona Community Foundation · La Crosse Community Foundation · Top Jewish Foundation Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation · Chris T Sullivan Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Ronald & Joyce Wanek Foundation Ltd

How much does The Ronald & Joyce Wanek Foundation Ltd give?
The Ronald & Joyce Wanek Foundation Ltd reported 67 grants totaling $4,832,456 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 69 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Ronald & Joyce Wanek Foundation Ltd fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (23%), Health (14%), Science & Tech (13%).
Who are The Ronald & Joyce Wanek Foundation Ltd's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: The STEM Academy Inc ($1.8M), Lutheran High School Association of Greater Detroit ($1.1M), School District of Arcadia ($492k).
Does The Ronald & Joyce Wanek Foundation Ltd fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Ronald & Joyce Wanek Foundation 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 The Ronald & Joyce Wanek Foundation Ltd?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ashley Charitable Foundation Ltd, Vinik Family Foundation, Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc.
Where is The Ronald & Joyce Wanek Foundation Ltd based?
The Ronald & Joyce Wanek Foundation Ltd is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 126 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $10M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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