Colorado · Private foundation
The Wana Brands Foundation
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.
- $4.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 130
- Grants FY2024
- 94
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 99%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 94
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 20
- Total assets, FY2024
- $56M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 99% of the organizations The Wana Brands Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 109 | $4.5M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 94 | $2.8M | 99% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $40k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boulder Pride | $380,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Our Academy | $266,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Oasis Fresh Foundations | $220,000 | 1 | 14% |
| The Delores Project | $215,000 | 2 | 4% |
| 4MyCity Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Fast Blackfeet | $175,000 | 2 | 8% |
| One Colorado Education Fund | $157,500 | 2 | 9% |
| Project Drawdown | $150,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Loveland Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence Inc | $141,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 132 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Wana Brands Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 122 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: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Caring for Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation
How this is measured
About The Wana Brands Foundation
- How much does The Wana Brands Foundation give?
- The Wana Brands Foundation reported 130 grants totaling $4,509,075 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 94 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does The Wana Brands Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (26%), Food & Nutrition (13%), Civil Rights (11%).
- Who are The Wana Brands Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Boulder Pride ($380k), Our Academy ($266k), Oasis Fresh Foundations ($220k).
- Does The Wana Brands Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 99% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wana Brands 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 Wana Brands Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.
- Where is The Wana Brands Foundation based?
- The Wana Brands Foundation is based in CO.
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