California · Private foundation
The WKS Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $55k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 82%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 22
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 82% of the organizations The WKS Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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 | 16 | $55k | 69% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $70k | 82% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $70k | 95% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $75k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temple Baptist Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Long Beach Rescue Mission | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Eduaid Network | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($261k), not named here.
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About The WKS Foundation
- How much does The WKS Foundation give?
- The WKS Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $55,190 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 22 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The WKS Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Health (11%), Religion (9%).
- Who are The WKS Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Temple Baptist Church ($5k), Long Beach Rescue Mission ($3k), Eduaid Network ($1k).
- Does The WKS Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 82% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The WKS Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is The WKS Foundation based?
- The WKS Foundation is based in CA.
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