Minnesota · Private foundation
The Wayne Family 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.
- $170k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 76%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 23
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 76% of the organizations The Wayne Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 82% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k 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 | 37 | $145k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $214k | 76% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $67k | 70% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $85k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
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, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kettle Moraine YMCA Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $22,000 | 3 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| One Heart Uganda Incorporated | $18,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Oxfam-America Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lift Up | $12,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Foothills Food Bank | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($81k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Wayne Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Baird Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Wayne Family Foundation
- How much does The Wayne Family Foundation give?
- The Wayne Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $170,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 23 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Wayne Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (25%), Human Services (23%), Health (20%).
- Who are The Wayne Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Kettle Moraine YMCA Inc ($100k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($45k), World Central Kitchen Inc ($35k).
- Does The Wayne Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 76% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wayne Family 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 Wayne Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
- Where is The Wayne Family Foundation based?
- The Wayne Family Foundation is based in MN.
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