Connecticut · Private foundation
The Wild Gifting Project
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.
- $4.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 57
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 77%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 43
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 23
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 77% of the organizations The Wild Gifting Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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 | 56 | $4.3M | 88% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $2.9M | 77% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $2.1M | 90% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $620k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who Speaks for Me Project | $689,247 | 3 | 82% |
| Fringe Public Health | $376,716 | 2 | 99% |
| Mamatoto Village Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Co-Counsel NYC Inc | $236,341 | 2 | 25% |
| Jc Precious Mind Foundation Inc | $231,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Amphitheater Public Schools Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 38% |
| Futures of Color | $150,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Gunviolencearchive Inc | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| A Better Way Foundation Abwf Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 4% |
| 1in6 Support Inc | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Wild Gifting Project supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 21 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Connecticut Health Foundation Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · England Family Foundation · If Foundation · Weissberg Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to The Wild Gifting Project through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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About The Wild Gifting Project
- How much does The Wild Gifting Project give?
- The Wild Gifting Project reported 57 grants totaling $4,377,730 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 43 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Wild Gifting Project fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (19%), Crime & Legal (17%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are The Wild Gifting Project's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Who Speaks for Me Project ($689k), Fringe Public Health ($377k), Mamatoto Village Inc ($300k).
- Does The Wild Gifting Project fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 77% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wild Gifting Project 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 Wild Gifting Project?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund, Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation.
- Where is The Wild Gifting Project based?
- The Wild Gifting Project is based in CT.
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