Illinois · Private foundation
The Wagner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $174k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Wagner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 31 | $174k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $151k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $150k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $183k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $153k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $151k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $153k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $155k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $298,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $114,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $103,600 | 9 | 0% |
| Rappahannock United Way Inc | $41,500 | 9 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $32,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Shelter for Help in Emergency Inc | $29,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness | $28,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Active Minds Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Jed Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Keep Swimming Foundation Inc | $21,500 | 5 | 31% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($460k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Wagner Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Wagner Foundation
- How much does The Wagner Foundation give?
- The Wagner Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $174,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Wagner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (33%), Health (24%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
- Who are The Wagner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($298k), Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc ($114k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($104k).
- Does The Wagner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wagner Foundation 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 Wagner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Wagner Foundation based?
- The Wagner Foundation is based in IL.
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