· Private foundation
WEN Foundation 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Cabin | $3,750 |
| The Campfire Foundation | $2,500 |
| National Outdoor Leadership | $1,250 |
| The Community Library | $1,000 |
| Sun Valley Writer's Conf | $1,000 |
| Wassmuth Center | $1,000 |
| Learning Lab | $1,000 |
| Scenic Hudson | $1,000 |
| Holderness School | $1,000 |
| Sun Valley Music Festival | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Blaine County Rec District | $500 |
| Teton Valley Ranch Education Founda | $500 |
| Idaho Shakespeare Festival | $500 |
| The Wilderness Land Trust | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCThe Campfire Foundation8× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +21% · 35% of their budget
- NONATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +8%
- SHScenic Hudson Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $500
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Public Education.
Public education (local education agency) - sage international school engages students within an inclusive ib learning community, challenging all members to take risks and contribute locally and globally through open-minded inquiry.
Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.
Public Education.
Public Education.
Public Education.
From our campus to the wilderness our mission is to inspire students to think critically engage confidently embrace challenges and lead impactful purposeful lives. Our primary program service is a PK-12th grade day boarding school in Sun…
Public Education.
Public Education.
Public Education.
To keep Idaho's hiking trails open for all.
Our mission is to protect, connect, and enhance wildlife habitat, working lands, and community spaces in southeast idaho, now and for future generations.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The Campfire Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LEARNING LAB INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds ONE STONE INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds Idaho Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds BOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER INC ↗
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: Gladys and Roland Harriman Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Hansberger Foundation · Langan Barber Foundation · Harad Family Foundation · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Joy & Thomas Kealey Foundation · Sylvan Creek Foundation Inc · Edwin E Perkins Foundation Xxxxx0003
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization WEN Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from WEN Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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