South Dakota · Private foundation
Waitt 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.
- $9.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $7,141,280
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 70
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $136M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Waitt Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $568k 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 | 41 | $9.9M | 54% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $10M | 43% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $8.4M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $8.9M | 35% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $5.3M | 54% |
| FY2019 | 58 | $7.3M | 48% |
| FY2018 | 70 | $6.5M | 63% |
| FY2017 | 70 | $5.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waitt Institute | $26,841,280 | 7 | 100% |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | $3,010,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Conservation International Foundation | $1,240,813 | 5 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | $924,930 | 5 | n/a |
| Global Fishing Watch Inc | $600,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Marine Conservation Biology Institute | $550,000 | 5 | 14% |
| National Geographic Society | $500,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention | $400,000 | 4 | 100% |
| Oceana Inc | $325,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance Inc | $310,000 | 3 | 18% |
Show all 129 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 109 recipients with no EIN on record ($26M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Waitt Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 113 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: Missouri River Historical Development Inc · Siouxland Community Foundation · The Chesterman Family Foundation · Berenstein Family Foundation · Peterson Family Foundation · Helios Foundation · The Marisla Foundation · Ronald B and Joan B Krage Foundation · The Roth & Letch Family Charitable Foundation · Mercy Health Services - Iowa Corp · Food Bank of Siouxland Inc · Baird Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Waitt Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Waitt Foundation
- How much does Waitt Foundation give?
- Waitt Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $9,878,414 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 70 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Waitt Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (47%), Social Science (43%), Animals (5%).
- Who are Waitt Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Waitt Institute ($27M), Wildlife Conservation Society ($3.0M), Conservation International Foundation ($1.2M).
- Does Waitt Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Waitt 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 Waitt Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Missouri River Historical Development Inc, Siouxland Community Foundation, The Chesterman Family Foundation.
- Where is Waitt Foundation based?
- Waitt Foundation is based in SD.
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