· 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.
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Phillips Exeter Academy | $2,500 |
| Los Agneles Metro Debate Commission | $2,000 |
| The Peddie School | $2,000 |
| The Ability Challenge | $2,000 |
| Sibley Memorial Hospital Fdn | $1,500 |
| Kudvumisa Foundation USA | $1,500 |
| PKD Foundation | $1,500 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Loomis Institute | $1,000 |
| Temple Judea | $500 |
| New Eng Elec Railway Hist Soc | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -18% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KFKUDVUMISA FOUNDATION USA INC5× · 2018–2025 · $23k · revenue +126%
PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY8× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +22%- PFPKD Foundation7× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- DPDenver Public Schools - Stephen Knight Center for Early Education2× · 2019–2020 · $4k
- EHEXTENDED HANDS OF HOPE2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue -79%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
How this is measured
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds KUDVUMISA FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PKD Foundation ↗
- Who funds SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBIAR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OAKLAND ↗
- Who funds The Peddie School ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET ES EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE ABILITY CHALLENGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds EXTENDED HANDS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE NALOXONE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DVI ↗
- Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds Integrated Family Community Services ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
- Who funds GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wagman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wagman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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