· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Jed Foundation | $25,000 |
| Active Minds | $25,000 |
| Glenbrook North High School | $12,000 |
| To Write Love on Her Arms | $10,000 |
| Fredericksburg SPCA | $9,000 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $8,000 |
| Bounce Childrens Foundation | $6,000 |
| FORCE - Facing Hereditary Cancer Em | $6,000 |
| Rappahannock United Way | $5,000 |
| amfAR - Foundation for AIDS Researc | $5,000 |
| Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank | $5,000 |
| Ravinia Festival | $5,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $5,000 |
| StJude Children's Research Hospital | $5,000 |
| Youth Services of GlenviewNorthbroo | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO6× · 2017–2022 · $298k · revenue +13%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $114k · revenue +40%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY9× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +140%
Funded once
- KSKeep Swimming Foundationone grant, 2023 · $8k
- LCLURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $5k
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE- ALBEMARLEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +82%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Sinai health system's mission is to improve the health of the individuals and communities it serves.
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…
Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
How this is measured
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 70 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds RAPPAHANNOCK UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds Active Minds Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEEP SWIMMING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds American Liver Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds FREDERICKSBURG REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Share our Spare ↗
- Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TWLOHA INC ↗
- Who funds FREDERICKSBURG REGIONAL SPCA ↗
- Who funds The Cousteau Society Inc ↗
- Who funds WINGS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wagner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wagner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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