Utah · Private foundation
Wadman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 36
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Wadman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $1.2M | 33% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $1.6M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $2.0M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $1.1M | 23% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $1.5M | 39% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $813k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Indian Services | $1,575,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Weber State University | $1,035,600 | 7 | n/a |
| Brigham Young University | $430,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Weber Pathways | $250,250 | 2 | 28% |
| Crossroads of the West Council Inc Boy Scouts of America 590 | $203,650 | 3 | 2% |
| Stella H Oaks Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 24% |
| Catholic Community Services of Utah | $165,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Utah State University | $125,200 | 5 | n/a |
| Huntsman Cancer Foundation | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ghana Make a Difference | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wadman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Dr Wc Swanson Family Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · James E & Norma Kier Charitable Foundation · Donnell B & Elizabeth D Stewart Education Foundation · United Way of Northern Utah · The Miner Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Rechieve Foundation
How this is measured
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About Wadman Foundation
- How much does Wadman Foundation give?
- Wadman Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $1,229,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 36 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Wadman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (46%), Education (22%), Human Services (20%).
- Who are Wadman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: American Indian Services ($1.6M), Weber State University ($1.0M), Brigham Young University ($430k).
- Does Wadman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wadman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wadman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, The Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundation, George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation.
- Where is Wadman Foundation based?
- Wadman Foundation is based in UT.
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