Florida · Private foundation
Wayne M Densch Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $916k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 21
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $30M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Wayne M Densch Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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 | 24 | $916k | 46% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $891k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $1.1M | 62% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $1.3M | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $1.7M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $1.4M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wayne M Densch Charities Inc | $550,000 | 1 | 40% |
| Seminole Soccer Club Inc D/B/A Orlando City Youth Soccer | $394,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Chance 2 Dance Inc | $135,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Wuerffel Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 29% |
| Foundation for Seminole State College of Florida Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Helpful Hands Inc | $36,554 | 3 | 16% |
| The St Johns River Festival of the Arts Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Orlando Union Rescue Mission Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Linville Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Bethune-Cookman University | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wayne M Densch Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 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: Williams Family Foundation · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · Central Florida Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Wayne M Densch Charitable Trust
- How much does Wayne M Densch Charitable Trust give?
- Wayne M Densch Charitable Trust reported 24 grants totaling $915,940 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Wayne M Densch Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Human Services (8%), Recreation & Sports (5%).
- Who are Wayne M Densch Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Wayne M Densch Charities Inc ($550k), Seminole Soccer Club Inc D/B/A Orlando City Youth Soccer ($394k), Chance 2 Dance Inc ($135k).
- Does Wayne M Densch Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wayne M Densch Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wayne M Densch Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Williams Family Foundation, Universal Orlando Foundation Inc, Central Florida Foundation.
- Where is Wayne M Densch Charitable Trust based?
- Wayne M Densch Charitable Trust is based in FL.
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