Missouri · Private foundation
We Can Be Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $21k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 91%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,909
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,727
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $161k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 91% of the organizations We Can Be Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 91% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 | 7 | $21k | 86% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $21k | 91% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $13k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $15k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $12k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $11k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $10k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Action for Youth | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Parkinsons Support Group | $5,727 | 1 | n/a |
| Tutoring Chicago | $4,300 | 1 | 0% |
| Highland Park Community Nursery School | $3,818 | 1 | 0% |
| Daughters of Worth | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Nurses for Newborns | $1,909 | 1 | 0% |
| Central Missouri Humane Society | $1,909 | 1 | 0% |
| Wilson Education Partnership Inc | $1,654 | 1 | 1% |
| Columbia Public Schools Foundation | $1,620 | 1 | 1% |
| The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District | $809 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Action for Youth | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Parkinsons Support Group | $5,727 | 1 | n/a |
| Tutoring Chicago | $4,300 | 1 | 0% |
| Highland Park Community Nursery School | $3,818 | 1 | 0% |
| Daughters of Worth | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Nurses for Newborns | $1,909 | 1 | 0% |
| Central Missouri Humane Society | $1,909 | 1 | 0% |
| Wilson Education Partnership Inc | $1,654 | 1 | 1% |
| Columbia Public Schools Foundation | $1,620 | 1 | 1% |
| The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District | $809 | 1 | 0% |
| The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| St Louis Area Food Bank Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($90k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget We Can Be Family 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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About We Can Be Family Foundation
- How much does We Can Be Family Foundation give?
- We Can Be Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $20,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does We Can Be Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (52%), Health (10%), Education (10%).
- Who are We Can Be Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Action for Youth ($6k), Parkinsons Support Group ($6k), Tutoring Chicago ($4k).
- Does We Can Be Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 91% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does We Can Be Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as We Can Be Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is We Can Be Family Foundation based?
- We Can Be Family Foundation is based in MO.
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