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Wedgwood Circle Institute

The wedgwood circle is a network that connects our members (patrons & investors) with creatives (artists & industry executives) to create art and entertainment that is good, true, and beautiful in every way. Simply put, we help our community become more effective and discerning creators, consumers, investors and patrons of the arts and…

$571k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2021
67%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2024
$110k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,805
Largest grant, FY2024
$89,494
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$265k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 67% of the organizations Wedgwood Circle Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$110k100%
FY20213$225k67%
FY20202$130k50%
FY20191$240k0%
FY20183$70k67%
FY20172$70kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$801kReligion$20kCommunity Improvement$14kCivil Rights$11k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Equally Well Music LLC$605,0007n/a
Waterfall Arts Foundation$89,494173%
Rise Film LLC$50,0001n/a
Morgan Perry's Production Company$46,3003n/a
Brie Stoner LLC$13,7751n/a
Well Collective$10,8052n/a
The New Respects$10,0001n/a
Dark Horse Ministries$10,000211%
Trala Music$5,0001n/a
Smoak Show Entertainment$5,0001n/a

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About Wedgwood Circle Institute

How much does Wedgwood Circle Institute give?
Wedgwood Circle Institute reported 3 itemized grants totaling $110,299, out of $571,336 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Wedgwood Circle Institute fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (95%), Religion (2%), Community Improvement (2%).
Who are Wedgwood Circle Institute's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Equally Well Music LLC ($605k), Waterfall Arts Foundation ($89k), Rise Film LLC ($50k).
Does Wedgwood Circle Institute fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Wedgwood Circle Institute based?
Wedgwood Circle Institute is based in VA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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