· Private foundation
Wayfarer 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k115 grants · $13M
- $250k+11 grants · $9.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HORACE HOLLEY FOUNDATION | $4,500,000 |
| NATIONAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY OF THE BAHA'IS OF THE UNITED STATES | $1,750,000 |
| MONA FOUNDATION | $650,000 |
| NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INC | $500,000 |
| NEW ERA CREATIVE SPACE | $370,000 |
| PARENT UNIVERSITY | $362,200 |
| TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER | $340,000 |
| EQUITICITY | $325,000 |
| PALENKE ARTS | $290,000 |
| FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA INC | $270,000 |
| MIRACLE MESSAGES | $255,000 |
| PROTEUS FUND | $225,000 |
| FETZER INSTITUTE | $210,000 |
| WORLD FEDERALIST MOVEMENT INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL POLICY | $205,000 |
| CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN EDUCATION FOR DEVELOPMENT | $203,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $5.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
140 repeat relationships: 110 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMONA FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +22% · 25% of their budget
- NUNATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +86%
- CRCHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC3× · 2022–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +2% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- EEMBARCone grant, 2023 · $450k
- BFBROSS FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $377k
- CUCOMMUNITY UNITED SERVICES INCone grant, 2023 · $357k · revenue +239%
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.
The Oakland Institute, an independent policy think tank, works to support global struggles for Indigenous rights, human rights, and land rights and to promote public participation and fair debate on critical social, economic, and…
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…
The mission of the Black Researchers Collective is to advance racial equity by training and equipping communities with research tools to be more civically engaged and policy informed.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Revolution Institute's purpose is to liberate the expansive potential of African-American and Latinx communities through sustainable, future-oriented work, entrepreneurship, and value-aligned collaborations.
Nexus' mission is to build more engaged and powerful communities by supporting community building initiatives that expand community wealth and foster social and human capital.
The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…
To transform the experiences, outcomes, and life options for children & families who have been historically underserved by our institutions and systems.
Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…
We collaborate with youth of color in their learning and development journey providing experiences and resources for critical thinking, exploring voice, deepening brilliance, and contributing to the health and renewal of their…
How this is measured
189 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 189 of the 248 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MONA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ERA CREATIVE SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds Equiticity ↗
- Who funds TANENBAUM CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING ↗
- Who funds CENTER ON MODERNITY IN TRANSITION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR RACE AMITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA ↗
- Who funds THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOOKS AND BREAKFAST ↗
- Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗
- Who funds TRUTH FOR JUSTICE RIGHTS IN IRAN ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC ONENESS ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR FREEDOMS INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE PONY EXPRESS ↗
- Who funds Palenke Arts ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE MESSAGES ↗
- Who funds SERVICE LEARNING MICROSCHOOL ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WOZU INC ↗
- Who funds MANIDOO OGITIGAAN ↗
- Who funds DARA Inc ↗
- Who funds INTONATION MUSIC WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY UNITED SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PROJECT KINDRED INC ↗
- Who funds GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CARES 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: Field Foundation of Illinois · Ndn Collective Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · First Nations Development Institute · Circle of Service Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Joyce Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wayfarer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wayfarer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Black Parent Initiative: 45% of income from government
- Sharing Sacred Spaces Inc: 12% of income from government
- Community Service Care Inc: 10% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
- Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc: 1% of income from government
- Period Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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