Massachusetts · Private foundation
Wagner Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $13M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 132
- Grants FY2024
- 112
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 57 to 112
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $161M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Wagner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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 | 112 | $12M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 112 | $13M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 106 | $14M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 81 | $13M | 52% |
| FY2020 | 57 | $11M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $11,370,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc | $5,370,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Year Up Inc | $4,525,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Mass Design Group Ltd | $4,035,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Root Capital Inc | $4,024,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | $3,500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Fund for Catholic Schools Inc | $1,575,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Pivot Works Inc | $1,525,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Integrate Health Inc | $1,525,000 | 5 | 5% |
| The Full Frame Initiative Inc | $1,380,000 | 5 | 15% |
Show all 188 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wagner Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 180 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Cambridge Community Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Wagner Foundation
- How much does Wagner Foundation give?
- Wagner Foundation reported 132 grants totaling $12,534,222 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 112 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Wagner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (39%), Arts & Culture (17%), Health (12%).
- Who are Wagner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation ($11M), The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc ($5.4M), Year Up Inc ($4.5M).
- Does Wagner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wagner 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 Wagner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Barr Foundation, Eastern Bank Foundation.
- Where is Wagner Foundation based?
- Wagner Foundation is based in MA.
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