Nevada · Private foundation
The Wagner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $257k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $126,470
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations The Wagner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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 | 7 | $257k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $286k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $150k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $268k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $218k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $250k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Polytechnic State University Foundation | $988,698 | 6 | 0% |
| Our Lady of the Bright Mount | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bigfork Youth Baseball Association | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Safari West Wildlife Foundation | $3,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Bigfork Rotary Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Old Town Artisan Studio Inc | $600 | 1 | 0% |
| Logan Health | $525 | 3 | 0% |
| Juli Inkster Foundation | $500 | 1 | 1% |
| Hopekids Inc | $450 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($394k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Wagner Foundation
- How much does The Wagner Foundation give?
- The Wagner Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $256,620 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Wagner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (71%), Health (14%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
- Who are The Wagner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: California Polytechnic State University Foundation ($989k), Our Lady of the Bright Mount ($25k), Bigfork Youth Baseball Association ($15k).
- Does The Wagner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wagner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Wagner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Wagner Foundation based?
- The Wagner Foundation is based in NV.
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