· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Doctors Without Borders | $65,000 |
| The Palestine Children's Relief Fun | $25,000 |
| The Amazon Conservation Team | $25,000 |
| The Jane Goodall Institute | $25,000 |
| International Committee of the Red | $25,000 |
| Science Spirit Institute | $20,000 |
| YWCA | $10,000 |
| The Lawyering Project co Tides Cent | $10,000 |
| American Civil Liberties Union | $10,000 |
| Mayo Clinic | $5,000 |
| National Women's Law Center | $5,000 |
| KQED | $5,000 |
| KALW | $5,000 |
| Wikimedia Foundation | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM7× · 2017–2024 · $390k · revenue +449%
- JGJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION7× · 2017–2024 · $286k · revenue +50%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- CBCARTER BURDEN NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +60%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR MIND BEING RESEARCHone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 23 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 AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR FRONTIER SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds CARTER BURDEN NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds IFWHENHOW ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wanda Bobowski Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wanda Bobowski Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
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