Wisconsin · Private foundation
Wagner-Essman Care Foundation Inc
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.
- $169k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Wagner-Essman Care Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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 | 9 | $169k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $399k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $159k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $112k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $130k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $120k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $91k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $105k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zoological Society of Milwaukee Cty | $43,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Kathy's House Inc | $34,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Geneva Lake Conservancy Inc | $31,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Mels Charities Inc | $26,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Special Olympics Wisconsin Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Kinship Mke Inc | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wauwatosa Catholic School | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Carmelite Sistershome for Girls | $16,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Life's Connection Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Burlington Community Fund Ltd | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wagner-Essman Care Foundation Inc 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 Wagner-Essman Care Foundation Inc
- How much does Wagner-Essman Care Foundation Inc give?
- Wagner-Essman Care Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $168,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wagner-Essman Care Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (40%), Recreation & Sports (12%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Wagner-Essman Care Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Zoological Society of Milwaukee Cty ($43k), Kathy's House Inc ($34k), Geneva Lake Conservancy Inc ($31k).
- Does Wagner-Essman Care Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wagner-Essman Care Foundation Inc 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 Wagner-Essman Care Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baird Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation.
- Where is Wagner-Essman Care Foundation Inc based?
- Wagner-Essman Care Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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