Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Wagman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $18k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of Wagman Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 14 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Wagman Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $18k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations Wagman 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; $1k 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 | 12 | $18k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $43k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $7k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $54k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $4k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $35k | 37% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $38k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kudvumisa Foundation USA Inc | $23,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Phillips Exeter Academy | $20,600 | 8 | 0% |
| PKD Foundation | $16,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation | $16,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Mile High United Way Inc | $11,225 | 6 | 0% |
| Cambiar Education | $10,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland | $8,897 | 4 | 0% |
| The Peddie School | $8,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Somerset Es Educational Foundation | $8,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Children's Hospital Colorado | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wagman Foundation supplied at peak.
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
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About Wagman Foundation
- How much does Wagman Foundation give?
- Wagman Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $17,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Wagman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (75%), Health (10%), Education (8%).
- Who are Wagman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Kudvumisa Foundation USA Inc ($23k), Phillips Exeter Academy ($21k), PKD Foundation ($17k).
- Does Wagman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wagman 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 Wagman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
- Where is Wagman Foundation based?
- Wagman Foundation is based in PA.
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