· Private foundation
The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $178k
- $10k–50k285 grants · $6.4M
- $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $71,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 63% of grant dollars ($19M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 37% that went abroad ($11M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 37% of all-years giving ($11M)
75 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
91 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 263 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.9M went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2022–2024 · $207k
- IGIndividual grant recipient5× · 2019–2024 · $96k
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2021–2024 · $75k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $150k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $79k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $53k
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.
2 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2019–2024.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2019 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 1,433 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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