New York · Private foundation
Thomas a Wendt Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $334k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $160,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Thomas a Wendt Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% 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 | 22 | $334k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $276k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $251k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $163k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $164k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Chapel | $700,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $38,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $36,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Eight Days of Hope Inc | $27,500 | 3 | 0% |
| City Mission Society Inc | $23,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Kevin Guest House Inc | $21,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Summit Center Inc | $16,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Roswell Park Alliance Foundation | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Bible Society | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $10,900 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Chapel | $700,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $38,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $36,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Eight Days of Hope Inc | $27,500 | 3 | 0% |
| City Mission Society Inc | $23,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Kevin Guest House Inc | $21,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Summit Center Inc | $16,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Roswell Park Alliance Foundation | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Bible Society | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $10,900 | 3 | 0% |
| Brothers of Mercy Holding Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Detroit Mercy | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sonrays Ministries Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Hospice & Palliative Care Buffalo Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Mast Cell Disease Society Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Immune Deficiency Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Let Them Lol Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Familiescn2a Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Historical Society of the Tonawandas Inc | $600 | 2 | 1% |
| Madonna of the Streets Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Focus on the Family | $200 | 2 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($255k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thomas a Wendt 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.
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How this is measured
About Thomas a Wendt Family Foundation
- How much does Thomas a Wendt Family Foundation give?
- Thomas a Wendt Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $333,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Thomas a Wendt Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (70%), Housing & Shelter (7%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are Thomas a Wendt Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Chapel ($700k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($39k), The Salvation Army ($36k).
- Does Thomas a Wendt Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thomas a Wendt Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Thomas a Wendt Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, William & Diane Hein Foundation, E&W G Foundation.
- Where is Thomas a Wendt Family Foundation based?
- Thomas a Wendt Family Foundation is based in NY.
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