Minnesota · Public charity
The Wildflower Foundation
Wildflower foundation works to ensure every child can learn in a high-quality, beautiful environment designed by local teachers to reflect their communities. We support a decentralized network of small, community-embedded, teacher-led montessori schools, preparing educators to design, launch, and lead schools that blend proven montessori…
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $682,725
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The Wildflower Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $449k 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 | 37 | $1.6M | 38% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $1.8M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $730k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $1.1M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $2.7M | 56% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $1.2M | 69% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $720k | 73% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $210k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wildflower Montessori Public Schools of Colorado | $1,467,595 | 3 | 100% |
| Embracing Equity Inc | $1,180,895 | 1 | 84% |
| Minnesota Wildflower Montessori School | $339,085 | 4 | 27% |
| The Dahlia School | $291,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Flor de Loto Montessori Corp | $265,400 | 5 | 17% |
| Hogar Ruth Para Mujeres Maltratadas Inc | $264,750 | 3 | 7% |
| Roxbury Roots Montessori Inc | $251,830 | 4 | 87% |
| Rosebay Montessori | $228,403 | 7 | 28% |
| Super Heroes 5k Inc | $211,645 | 4 | 25% |
| Honeypot Montessori Incorporated | $203,319 | 3 | 83% |
Show all 87 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
The Wildflower Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 39 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Hiawatha Education Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About The Wildflower Foundation
- How much does The Wildflower Foundation give?
- The Wildflower Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $1,570,827 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Wildflower Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (92%), Human Services (7%), Arts & Culture (0%).
- Who are The Wildflower Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Wildflower Montessori Public Schools of Colorado ($1.5M), Embracing Equity Inc ($1.2M), Minnesota Wildflower Montessori School ($339k).
- Does The Wildflower Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Wildflower Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hiawatha Education Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund.
- Where is The Wildflower Foundation based?
- The Wildflower Foundation is based in MN.
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