Oklahoma · Private foundation
Waldman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $73k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,625
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $987k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Waldman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $51k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $47k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $36k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $67k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $29k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $51k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $46k | 55% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Baptist Church | $218,835 | 9 | n/a |
| The Chosen House Inc | $50,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Finisterre Vision | $30,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Salvation Army | $21,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Mercy Ships International | $21,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Light Ministries Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 1% |
| God Is Good Ministries of Dallas | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Life Outreach International Association of Churches Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Navigators | $2,450 | 6 | n/a |
| Little Light House Inc | $1,600 | 4 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Baptist Church | $218,835 | 9 | n/a |
| The Chosen House Inc | $50,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Finisterre Vision | $30,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Salvation Army | $21,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Mercy Ships International | $21,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Light Ministries Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 1% |
| God Is Good Ministries of Dallas | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Life Outreach International Association of Churches Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Navigators | $2,450 | 6 | n/a |
| Little Light House Inc | $1,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Life Change Academy Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Father Flanagan's Boys' Home | $600 | 1 | 0% |
| Harrah Historical Society | $200 | 1 | n/a |
| The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| St Labre Indian School | $100 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($73k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Waldman Foundation
- How much does Waldman Foundation give?
- Waldman Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $73,215 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Waldman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (72%), International (11%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are Waldman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: First Baptist Church ($219k), The Chosen House Inc ($50k), Finisterre Vision ($30k).
- Does Waldman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Waldman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Waldman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Waldman Foundation based?
- Waldman Foundation is based in OK.
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