· Private foundation
Wakefield Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POLK COUNTY K9 ASSOCIATION | $16,000 |
| HOOFBEATS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| GUILD | $10,000 |
| ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| POLK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| NATURAL BRIDGE APPALACHIAN TRAIL CLUB | $3,000 |
| WE CAN RIDE INC | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHESSIE TRAIL | $2,000 |
| BLAKE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GGuild9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +18%
- AHAnimal Humane Society9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +28%
- HTHOOFBEATS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC3× · 2023–2025 · $28k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- NFNew Freedom Farm Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -45%
- SMST MARTINS BY-THE-LAKE CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $4k
- RAROCKBRIDGE AREA FREE CLINIC INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +45%
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.
Provide wellness and spay/neuter services at reduced cost for people in need.
At United Hospital District, we exist to provide and promote appropriate health care services to the communities we serve, doing so in a safe and healing environment which supports our patient-centered care philosophy.
Glencoe regional health services exists to improve every life by offering high-quality, safe, and accessible healthcare. we are dedicated to strengthening healthcare by connecting our communities, enhancing the patient experience,…
The mission of lakewood health system is to provide quality, personalized healthcare for a lifetime.
To inspire, recognize, and empower the caregiver in all of us.
Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…
Caring for friends and neighbors, kittson memorial healthcare center provides and cooperates with others to ensure that residents have access to services necessary to maintain their health and well-being.
Ely-bloomenson community hospital is committed to caring for and enhancing the health and well-being of the community it serves.
Osmond general hospital is committed to providing patient centered, high-quality healthcare in a cost effective and safe manner.
Delivering community-based care that provides peace of mind, quality of life and independence.
Connecting animals in need with people who care.
Provide recreational and therapeutic riding on horseback for about 120 people with disabilities
How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 30 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 ORONO FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Guild ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOOFBEATS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC GREATER TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALWAYS B SMILING INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POLK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds POLK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds New Freedom Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKBRIDGE AREA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds WE CAN RIDE INC ↗
- Who funds 8 TO A LAMP ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS ARTS AND CRAFTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GLASGOW VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds Ride With Pride Inc ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wakefield Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wakefield Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Wakefield Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Wakefield Family 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.
Play a game based on Wakefield Family’s filings →