California · Private foundation
Wendell 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.
- $903k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $260,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 99
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Wendell Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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 | 51 | $903k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $887k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $722k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 64 | $794k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 75 | $658k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 82 | $599k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 99 | $415k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 93 | $337k | 51% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy | $1,646,700 | 9 | 1% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $1,011,617 | 9 | 0% |
| Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund | $345,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Exploratorium | $163,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cottage 1886 Foundation Inc | $118,000 | 3 | 38% |
| The Hamlin School | $109,000 | 7 | 0% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $103,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of California | $54,100 | 9 | n/a |
| Grassroot Soccer Inc | $53,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 177 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 117 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wendell Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 158 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: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Robert and Dana Emery Family Foundation Rockefeller Trust Company · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · McNabb Foundation · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Bothin Foundation · John Pritzker Family Fund
How this is measured
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About Wendell Family Foundation
- How much does Wendell Family Foundation give?
- Wendell Family Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $902,950 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 99 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wendell Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Recreation & Sports (31%), Social Science (7%).
- Who are Wendell Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy ($1.6M), The Trustees of Princeton University ($1.0M), Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund ($345k).
- Does Wendell Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wendell 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 Wendell Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
- Where is Wendell Family Foundation based?
- Wendell Family Foundation is based in CA.
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