California · Private foundation
The Wanda Bobowski Fund
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.
- $240k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2024
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations The Wanda Bobowski Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 13 | $235k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $150k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $160k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $205k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $245k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $205k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $401k | 8% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $260k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Conservation Team | $390,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation | $286,061 | 7 | 1% |
| Institute for Frontier Science | $230,000 | 6 | 37% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $125,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $65,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Greenpeace Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kqed Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Palestine Children's Relief Fund | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Carter Burden Network Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Foundation for Mind Being Research | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Conservation Team | $390,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation | $286,061 | 7 | 1% |
| Institute for Frontier Science | $230,000 | 6 | 37% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $125,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $65,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Greenpeace Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kqed Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Palestine Children's Relief Fund | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Carter Burden Network Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Foundation for Mind Being Research | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ifwhenhow | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Amnesty International of the USA Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Women's Law Center | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($585k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Wanda Bobowski Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Wanda Bobowski Fund
- How much does The Wanda Bobowski Fund give?
- The Wanda Bobowski Fund reported 14 grants totaling $240,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Wanda Bobowski Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (24%), Animals (17%), Health (16%).
- Who are The Wanda Bobowski Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Amazon Conservation Team ($390k), Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation ($286k), Institute for Frontier Science ($230k).
- Does The Wanda Bobowski Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wanda Bobowski Fund 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 Wanda Bobowski Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Wanda Bobowski Fund based?
- The Wanda Bobowski Fund is based in CA.
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