Wisconsin · Private foundation
The Wahlin Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $425k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $286,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations The Wahlin Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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 | 11 | $420k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $355k | 55% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $403k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $442k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $304k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $174k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $156k | 62% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $214k | 56% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stoughton Hospital Foundation Inc | $281,000 | 6 | 10% |
| Mandt Community Centerinc | $232,280 | 6 | 31% |
| Wmc Foundation Inc | $155,000 | 6 | 4% |
| City of Evansville | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Innovation Center Stoughton Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 51% |
| United Way of Dane County Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Children's Dyslexia Centers Inc | $29,392 | 3 | 0% |
| Jaycees of Wisconsin Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Folks Wagons Inc | $23,000 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 75 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Wahlin Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Edwin E and Janet L Bryant Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Stoughton Community Foundation Inc · Wps Charitable Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation
How this is measured
About The Wahlin Foundation Inc
- How much does The Wahlin Foundation Inc give?
- The Wahlin Foundation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $425,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Wahlin Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (19%), Education (14%), Health (13%).
- Who are The Wahlin Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Stoughton Hospital Foundation Inc ($281k), Mandt Community Centerinc ($232k), Wmc Foundation Inc ($155k).
- Does The Wahlin Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wahlin Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Wahlin Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Edwin E and Janet L Bryant Foundation Inc, Madison Community Foundation.
- Where is The Wahlin Foundation Inc based?
- The Wahlin Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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