New Jersey · Private foundation
The Wight Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $426k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 120
- Grants FY2024
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $575
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 64 to 184
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations The Wight Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 118 | $426k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $529k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 149 | $501k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 142 | $473k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 179 | $482k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 182 | $809k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 183 | $1.5M | 32% |
| FY2017 | 184 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt University | $750,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Student Diplomacy Corps Inc | $47,950 | 3 | 1% |
| Kimball Union Academy | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ohio Wesleyan University | $22,967 | 2 | 0% |
| The Hill School | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Peddie School | $14,739 | 3 | 0% |
| The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology | $11,250 | 1 | 0% |
| The Hun School of Princeton | $3,200 | 1 | 0% |
| The Pennington School | $2,700 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt University | $750,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Student Diplomacy Corps Inc | $47,950 | 3 | 1% |
| Kimball Union Academy | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ohio Wesleyan University | $22,967 | 2 | 0% |
| The Hill School | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Peddie School | $14,739 | 3 | 0% |
| The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology | $11,250 | 1 | 0% |
| The Hun School of Princeton | $3,200 | 1 | 0% |
| The Pennington School | $2,700 | 1 | 0% |
| Nyamwange Foundation Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 469 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Wight 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: Charities Aid Foundation America · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Wight Foundation
- How much does The Wight Foundation give?
- The Wight Foundation reported 120 grants totaling $426,458 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 64 and 184 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Wight Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (90%), Philanthropy (3%), Health (2%).
- Who are The Wight Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Vanderbilt University ($750k), Student Diplomacy Corps Inc ($48k), Kimball Union Academy ($35k).
- Does The Wight Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wight Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Wight Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charities Aid Foundation America, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Chubb Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Wight Foundation based?
- The Wight Foundation is based in NJ.
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