California · Private foundation
The Wenger Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $825k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $781,818
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Wenger Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $825k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $40k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $50k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $44k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $39k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $36k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $36k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $38k | 32% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kidsave International Inc | $39,050 | 9 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History | $24,725 | 8 | 0% |
| Women's Fund of Santa Barbara | $18,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Botanic Garden | $16,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Ganna Walska Lotusland | $15,946 | 8 | 0% |
| Some Inc | $14,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara International Film Festival Inc | $13,799 | 8 | 0% |
| Direct Relief | $11,438 | 6 | 0% |
| Round House Theatre Inc | $10,700 | 9 | 0% |
| Soar Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($901k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Wenger 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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About The Wenger Family Foundation
- How much does The Wenger Family Foundation give?
- The Wenger Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $824,762 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Wenger Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (71%), Health (7%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are The Wenger Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kidsave International Inc ($39k), Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History ($25k), Women's Fund of Santa Barbara ($18k).
- Does The Wenger Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wenger Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Wenger Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
- Where is The Wenger Family Foundation based?
- The Wenger Family Foundation is based in CA.
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