Colorado · Private foundation
Wenaas Family Foundation
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.
- $109k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Wenaas Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 11 | $109k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $52k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $73k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $1.0M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $187k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $165k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $74k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $55k | 45% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Boys and Girls Clubs of Weld County Inc | $1,190,000 | 3 | 34% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Weld Food Bank | $52,000 | 9 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $42,500 | 7 | 0% |
| United Way of Weld County Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Colorado Youth Outdoors Charitable Trust | $33,602 | 7 | 1% |
| The Wild Animal Sanctuary | $29,554 | 8 | 0% |
| Weld Legacy Foundation | $16,725 | 3 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central and Northern Arizona | $16,036 | 4 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($182k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wenaas Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Weld Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Tointon Family Foundation · The Weld Trust · United Way of Weld County Inc · Weld Legacy Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Anschutz Family Foundation · Sorelle Family Foundation · Monfort Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Wenaas Family Foundation
- How much does Wenaas Family Foundation give?
- Wenaas Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $108,536 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wenaas Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (69%), Health (14%), Philanthropy (3%).
- Who are Wenaas Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Boys and Girls Clubs of Weld County Inc ($1.2M), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($80k), Weld Food Bank ($52k).
- Does Wenaas Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wenaas 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 Wenaas Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION, Weld Community Foundation.
- Where is Wenaas Family Foundation based?
- Wenaas Family Foundation is based in CO.
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