Minnesota · Private foundation
The Wilford Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $70k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2024
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 33
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $813k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations The Wilford Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 33 | $70k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $70k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $70k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $70k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $51k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $51k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $45k | 11% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $46k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Life Family Services | $41,993 | 8 | 0% |
| First Love International Ministries | $36,952 | 8 | 0% |
| Linc Ministries International Inc | $30,383 | 6 | n/a |
| C24 7 Father's Arms Ministries | $28,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Young Life | $18,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation | $16,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Solid Ground | $14,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Trinity First Lutheran Church | $11,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Refuge for Women Inc | $11,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Hope Academy Inc | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($184k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Wilford 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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About The Wilford Family Foundation
- How much does The Wilford Family Foundation give?
- The Wilford Family Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $69,950 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Wilford Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (36%), Human Services (32%), Religion (9%).
- Who are The Wilford Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: New Life Family Services ($42k), First Love International Ministries ($37k), Linc Ministries International Inc ($30k).
- Does The Wilford Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wilford Family Foundation 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 Wilford Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota, Otto Bremer Trust.
- Where is The Wilford Family Foundation based?
- The Wilford Family Foundation is based in MN.
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