Colorado · Private foundation
The Wurst Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $40k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 15
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $588k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations The Wurst Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 17 | $40k | 41% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $44k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $28k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $19k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $25k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $26k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $8,100 | 5 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Diocese of Pueblo | $5,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Kansas State Newman Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kansas State University Foundation | $4,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern Colorado | $4,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Isidore Catholic Student Center Parish | $3,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Shack | $3,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Lamar Area Hospice Association | $2,700 | 4 | 0% |
| St Thomas More Parish Manhattan Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $8,100 | 5 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Diocese of Pueblo | $5,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Kansas State Newman Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kansas State University Foundation | $4,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern Colorado | $4,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Isidore Catholic Student Center Parish | $3,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Shack | $3,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Lamar Area Hospice Association | $2,700 | 4 | 0% |
| St Thomas More Parish Manhattan Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Catholic Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pueblo Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Priests of the Sacred Heart | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Kids With Cancer | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish | $100 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($130k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Wurst 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: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Wurst Foundation
- How much does The Wurst Foundation give?
- The Wurst Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $40,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Wurst Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (57%), Health (10%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are The Wurst Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($8k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($8k), Diocese of Pueblo ($5k).
- Does The Wurst Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wurst Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Wurst Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is The Wurst Foundation based?
- The Wurst Foundation is based in CO.
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