Massachusetts · Private foundation
Wender 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.
- $16k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $301k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Wender Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 20 | $16k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $15k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $21k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $24k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $22k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $16k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $18k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $12k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Lyric Opera Company | $15,100 | 8 | 0% |
| The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc | $13,981 | 9 | 0% |
| The Santa Fe Opera | $12,175 | 8 | 0% |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc | $11,830 | 7 | 0% |
| Opera Theatre of Saint Louis | $6,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Bay Path University | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Opera America Inc | $4,185 | 3 | 0% |
| Opera Philadelphia | $3,300 | 5 | 0% |
| Museum of Fine Arts | $2,550 | 7 | 0% |
| American Repertory Theatre Co Inc | $2,053 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($60k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wender 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: The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Charles and Cerise Jacobs Charitable Foundation · Opera America Inc · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · Ibm International Foundation · Harris a Berman & Ruth E Nemzoff Family Foundation C/O Mason Rich · Robert and Iris Fanger Family Foundation · The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation · Mattina R Proctor Foundation · New Music USA Inc
How this is measured
About Wender Foundation
- How much does Wender Foundation give?
- Wender Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $16,040 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wender Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (81%), Education (17%), Science & Tech (1%).
- Who are Wender Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boston Lyric Opera Company ($15k), The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc ($14k), The Santa Fe Opera ($12k).
- Does Wender Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wender 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 Wender Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is Wender Foundation based?
- Wender Foundation is based in MA.
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