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Wempe Foundation II Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$9k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$175
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,180
Organizations funded a year
2 to 8
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$781
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Wempe Foundation II Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $815 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentEducationHealthReligionHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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
FY2025still arriving11$9k36%
FY20248$10k25%
FY20237$10k14%
FY20228$11k25%
FY20217$8k86%
FY20202$750n/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$9kHuman Services$2kInternational$2kEducation$2kYouth Development$2kHealth$607Crime & Legal$500Public Benefit$150Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
CA
CO
VA
AZ
KS
NC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Gospel for Asia Inc$9,0395n/a
Focus on the Family$1,7705n/a
Young Life$1,50050%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$1,42520%
Life Network$60750%
Samaritan's Purse$60040%
NRA Foundation Inc$50010%
International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc$1751n/a
Hesston College$15320%
The Springs Rescue Mission$5010%
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All grantees of Wempe Foundation II Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Gospel for Asia Inc$9,0395n/a
Focus on the Family$1,7705n/a
Young Life$1,50050%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$1,42520%
Life Network$60750%
Samaritan's Purse$60040%
NRA Foundation Inc$50010%
International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc$1751n/a
Hesston College$15320%
The Springs Rescue Mission$5010%
Wycliffe Associates Inc$501n/a
With God All Things Are Possible$5010%
Turning Point USA Inc$5010%
Care and Share Inc$2510%
Blue Letter Bible$251n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($32k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wempe Foundation II Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYoung Life: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $1,425 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLife Network: $607 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNRA Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHesston College: $153 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Springs Rescue Mission: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWith God All Things Are Possible: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCare and Share Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 10.

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH12.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Wempe Foundation II Inc

How much does Wempe Foundation II Inc give?
Wempe Foundation II Inc reported 12 grants totaling $8,802 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Wempe Foundation II Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (19%), Human Services (4%), International (3%).
Who are Wempe Foundation II Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Gospel for Asia Inc ($9k), Focus on the Family ($2k), Young Life ($2k).
Does Wempe Foundation II Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wempe Foundation II Inc 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 Wempe Foundation II Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Wempe Foundation II Inc based?
Wempe Foundation II Inc is based in CO.

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 18 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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