How much does Wca Foundation give?

Wca Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $339,775 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.

What does Wca Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Health (18%), Housing & Shelter (13%).

Who are Wca Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative ($65k), Men as Peacemakers ($65k), Missions Inc Programs ($50k).

Does Wca Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2020, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Wca Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wca Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.

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Wca Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$340k
Granted FY2020: 17
Grants FY2020: 17
Organizations funded FY2020: 53%
First-time grantees FY2020

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Median grant, FY2020: $18,000
Largest grant, FY2020: $30,000
Organizations funded a year: 17 to 40; FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020: 1
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 53% of the organizations Wca Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2020	17	$340k	53%
FY2019	40	$727k	55%
FY2018	38	$580k	82%
FY2017	40	$573k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Human Services$718kHealth$396kHousing & Shelter$289kEducation$182kEmployment$140kYouth Development$132kCrime & Legal$93kCivil Rights$82kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative	$65,000	2	1%
Men as Peacemakers	$65,000	2	6%
Missions Inc Programs	$50,000	2	1%
Ampersand Families	$50,000	1	5%
Tubman	$47,000	2	n/a
Jeremiah Program	$47,000	2	0%
St Catherine University	$46,000	2	0%
Domestic Abuse Project Inc	$45,000	2	2%
Dunwoody College of Technology	$43,500	2	0%
Planned Parenthood Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota	$43,200	2	0%

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All grantees of Wca Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative	$65,000	2	1%
Men as Peacemakers	$65,000	2	6%
Missions Inc Programs	$50,000	2	1%
Ampersand Families	$50,000	1	5%
Tubman	$47,000	2	n/a
Jeremiah Program	$47,000	2	0%
St Catherine University	$46,000	2	0%
Domestic Abuse Project Inc	$45,000	2	2%
Dunwoody College of Technology	$43,500	2	0%
Planned Parenthood Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota	$43,200	2	0%
Movefwd Inc	$40,000	2	4%
Children's Dental Services Inc	$38,000	2	0%
Communidades Latinas Unidas En Servico Inc	$37,500	2	0%
The Center for Victims of Torture	$35,000	2	0%
Youthlink	$35,000	2	0%
Hmong American Partnership	$32,000	2	0%
Community Dental Care	$30,255	2	0%
Neighborhood Healthsource	$30,000	1	0%
Phyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc	$30,000	1	1%
Young Women's Christian Association of St Paul	$30,000	1	0%
Wayside House Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Haven Housing	$30,000	1	1%
Women's Advocates Inc	$30,000	2	1%
Dress for Success Twin Cities	$30,000	1	4%
Face to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc	$29,200	2	1%
Northwestern Health Sciences University	$28,000	2	0%
Page Education Foundation	$27,500	3	1%
Park Nicollet Foundation	$27,000	1	0%
Cornerstone	$27,000	1	n/a
Sewa-Aifw	$25,000	1	6%
Ostara Initiative	$20,000	1	4%
Sojourner Project Inc	$20,000	2	1%
Young Mens Christian Association of the North	$20,000	1	0%
Matrix Housing Services	$20,000	1	6%
Anna Marie's Alliance	$20,000	1	1%
Perspectives Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Cars for Neighbors Inc	$20,000	1	10%
Homeward Bound Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Intercongregation Communities Association Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Change Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Wallin Education Partners	$20,000	1	0%
Lifetrack Resources Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Northeast Senior Services Inc	$20,000	1	30%
Esperanza United	$20,000	1	1%
Angel Foundation	$20,000	2	0%
Family Values for Life	$20,000	2	2%
Unprison Project	$20,000	1	n/a
United Family Practice Health Center	$20,000	1	0%
African Immigrants Community Servic	$20,000	1	5%
Simpson Housing Services Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Stepping Stone Emergency Housing	$19,544	1	1%
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery	$19,000	2	0%
Help at Your Door	$19,000	1	n/a
First Witness Child Advocacy Center	$18,000	1	2%
United Community Action Partnership Inc	$17,500	1	n/a
Youth Farm and Market Project	$17,500	1	n/a
Merrick Community Services	$17,500	1	1%
Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment Through Research	$17,155	1	9%
Illusion Theater and School Inc	$17,000	1	n/a
Community Emergency Service Inc	$17,000	1	n/a
Minnesota Private College Fund	$17,000	1	1%
At Home Group	$15,000	1	3%
The Arc Greater Twin Cities	$15,000	1	0%
Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc	$15,000	1	0%
New Vision Foundation	$15,000	1	11%
Womenventure	$15,000	1	1%
Dakota Woodlands	$15,000	1	1%
Alexandra House Inc	$15,000	1	1%
Compas Inc	$14,000	1	1%
Oasis for Youth	$13,500	1	2%
Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs	$13,500	1	1%
Karen Organization of Minnesota	$13,000	1	1%
Myhealth for Teens and Young Adults Inc	$12,000	1	1%
Firefly Sisterhood	$12,000	1	7%
The Link	$12,000	1	0%
Uplift North	$12,000	1	3%
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc	$10,200	2	0%
Guild	$10,000	1	0%
Children's Health Care Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Twin Cities Housing Development Corporation	$10,000	1	0%
Fairview Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Daily Work	$10,000	1	6%
Upstream Arts Inc	$9,000	1	1%
Vail Place	$8,036	1	0%
Joyce Preschool	$8,000	1	1%
St Anthony Park Area Seniors	$8,000	1	n/a
Minnesota Council on Foundations	$5,325	3	0%
Second Harvest Heartland	$3,000	3	0%

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($192k), not named here.

Wca Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 77 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 77.

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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.

Otto Bremer TrustMN96.7× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Hardenbergh Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Medica Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Target Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Wca Foundation

How much does Wca Foundation give?: Wca Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $339,775 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Wca Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Health (18%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
Who are Wca Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative ($65k), Men as Peacemakers ($65k), Missions Inc Programs ($50k).
Does Wca Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2020, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wca Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wca Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.
Where is Wca Foundation based?: Wca Foundation is based in MN.