How much does The Wenden Foundation give?

The Wenden Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $336,140 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 58 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Wenden Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (31%), Health (12%), Food & Nutrition (11%).

Who are The Wenden Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Direct Relief ($244k), Globalgiving Foundation Inc ($62k), Citymeals-On-Wheels ($53k).

Does The Wenden Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Wenden 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 Wenden Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Connecticut Community Foundation, Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation, The Kestrel Foundation.

Where is The Wenden Foundation based?

The Wenden Foundation is based in CT.

The Wenden Foundation

The Wenden Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Wenden 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.

$336k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$78k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$445kHealth$174kFood & Nutrition$160kArts & Culture$134kEducation$84kHousing & Shelter$78kPublic Safety & Disaster$69kPhilanthropy$61kOther$0

02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k48 grants · $168k
$10k–50k7 grants · $91k
$50k–250k1 grant · $78k

$4,500

Median grant

States reached

$7.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DIRECT RELIEF	$77,500
A BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION	$20,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED	$16,000
ASAP MINISTRIES	$12,000
CONNECTICUT FOOD BANK	$12,000
NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC	$10,600
THE DALTON SCHOOL	$10,000
WASHINGTON AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION	$10,000
GUNN MEMORIAL LIBRARY & MUSEUM	$9,850
STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC	$8,000
EMPLOYEE HOLIDAY FUND	$7,500
PUBLICOLOR	$7,500
FRESH AIR FUND	$7,000
CURE BLINDNESS PROJECT	$6,000
CITY HARVEST	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.3M · 74 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

74 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+19%

Still filing today

73%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

InternationalHealthFood & NutritionEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

DIRECT RELIEF
7× · 2017–2024 · $244k · revenue +94%
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +34%
C
CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS
7× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +38%

Funded once

SJ
SAINT JOHN'S FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $8k
SH
STAMFORD HOSPITAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2023 · $5k
AS
AFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +54%

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.

04Its field

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.

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture

West Side Center for Community Life

To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…

Youth Development

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

Npr Foundation

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…

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American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Love We Deliver Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hollister House Garden Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

95 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. 95 of the 142 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

93/95

Grantees still filing

71/95

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$458,150Other$454,604Health$164,600Food & Nutrition$116,958Education$116,750Community Improvement$71,600Philanthropy$56,600

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.

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.

The Connecticut Community FoundationCT35.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Connecticut Community Foundation · Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation · The Kestrel Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Dungannon Foundation Inc · Coleman Family Charitable Foundation · Arnhold Foundation Inc · Fjc · H & L Family Foundation Inc · The Jaffe Family Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Block Grausman Fund

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Wenden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wenden Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

14get no government money at all

22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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