Wisconsin · Private foundation
Weekes Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $554k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 37
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Weekes Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 31 | $554k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $571k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $623k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $526k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $468k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operation Help Inc | $584,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Northern Star Council | $280,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Sugarloaf the North Shore Stewardship Association | $225,000 | 5 | 18% |
| Phipps Center for the Arts Inc | $146,625 | 5 | 10% |
| Dream Center Denver | $110,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Familymeans | $105,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Flathead Lutheran Bible Camp | $75,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Valley Outreach | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Turning Point Inc | $58,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($810k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Weekes 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: St Croix Valley Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way St Croix and Red Cedar Valleys Inc · Hardenbergh Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · William H Phipps Foundation
How this is measured
About Weekes Family Foundation
- How much does Weekes Family Foundation give?
- Weekes Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $553,530 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Weekes Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (42%), Environment (19%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are Weekes Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Operation Help Inc ($584k), Northern Star Council ($280k), Sugarloaf the North Shore Stewardship Association ($225k).
- Does Weekes Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Weekes Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Weekes Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Croix Valley Foundation, Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation.
- Where is Weekes Family Foundation based?
- Weekes Family Foundation is based in WI.
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