California · Private foundation
The Wollenberg 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.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 80
- Grants FY2024
- 73
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $450,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 68 to 79
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 16
- Total assets, FY2024
- $32M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations The Wollenberg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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 | 79 | $2.0M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 73 | $1.3M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 79 | $1.7M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 78 | $1.5M | 8% |
| FY2020 | 76 | $1.6M | 11% |
| FY2019 | 72 | $1.6M | 17% |
| FY2018 | 68 | $1.4M | 16% |
| FY2017 | 70 | $1.7M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Independent Colleges of Washington | $600,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Oregon Museum of Science and Industry | $480,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Children's Health Council Inc | $415,000 | 8 | 0% |
| United Way of Cowlitz County | $400,000 | 8 | 16% |
| Rebuilding Together Peninsula | $290,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Youth and Family Link | $255,000 | 8 | 4% |
| United Planning Organization | $240,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Teach for America Inc | $240,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums | $200,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Oregon Alliance of Independent Colleges & Universities | $200,000 | 2 | 10% |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Wollenberg Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 77 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: The Health Care Foundation · United Way of Cowlitz County · John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Honorable Frank L & Arlene G Price Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Nippon Dynawave Foundation · Evans-Kelly Family Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Seattle Foundation
How this is measured
About The Wollenberg Foundation
- How much does The Wollenberg Foundation give?
- The Wollenberg Foundation reported 80 grants totaling $2,479,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 68 and 79 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Wollenberg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (50%), Arts & Culture (16%), Health (10%).
- Who are The Wollenberg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Independent Colleges of Washington ($600k), Oregon Museum of Science and Industry ($480k), Children's Health Council Inc ($415k).
- Does The Wollenberg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wollenberg 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 Wollenberg Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Health Care Foundation, United Way of Cowlitz County, John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Wollenberg Foundation based?
- The Wollenberg Foundation is based in CA.
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