Minnesota · Private foundation
Wayne Goldstein Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $28k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $424k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Wayne Goldstein Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $850 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 | 34 | $27k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $34k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $26k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $29k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $27k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $22k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $24k | 94% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $28k | 100% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Citizen Foundation Inc | $16,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Land Stewardship Project | $7,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Keystone Community Services | $7,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Collegetracks Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Institute for Local Self Reliance | $4,200 | 7 | 0% |
| The George Washington University | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| N Street Village Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fcnl Education Fund | $2,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Sandy Hook Promise Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($139k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wayne Goldstein Memorial Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Network for Good
How this is measured
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About Wayne Goldstein Memorial Foundation
- How much does Wayne Goldstein Memorial Foundation give?
- Wayne Goldstein Memorial Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $27,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wayne Goldstein Memorial Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Philanthropy (12%), Environment (9%).
- Who are Wayne Goldstein Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Public Citizen Foundation Inc ($16k), Land Stewardship Project ($8k), Keystone Community Services ($7k).
- Does Wayne Goldstein Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wayne Goldstein Memorial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wayne Goldstein Memorial Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Fr Bigelow Foundation.
- Where is Wayne Goldstein Memorial Foundation based?
- Wayne Goldstein Memorial Foundation is based in MN.
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