Texas · Private foundation
Wentz Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $573k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,400
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $370,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 24
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $461k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Wentz Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 | 23 | $573k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $343k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $442k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $361k | 77% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity Christian School Foundation | $1,152,800 | 5 | 65% |
| Turning Point Community Church | $792,100 | 5 | n/a |
| Turning Point for God | $214,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Pioneers | $75,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry Inc | $74,600 | 4 | n/a |
| Physicians Aiding Physicians Abroad | $45,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Lubbock Impact Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Plainview Christian Academyinc | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Young Life | $21,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Seed Planting Team | $20,000 | 2 | 8% |
Show all 31 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity Christian School Foundation | $1,152,800 | 5 | 65% |
| Turning Point Community Church | $792,100 | 5 | n/a |
| Turning Point for God | $214,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Pioneers | $75,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry Inc | $74,600 | 4 | n/a |
| Physicians Aiding Physicians Abroad | $45,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Lubbock Impact Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Plainview Christian Academyinc | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Young Life | $21,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Seed Planting Team | $20,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| John Macarthur Charitable Trust | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National School Chaplain Assoc Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Chosen People Ministries Inc | $9,800 | 5 | n/a |
| Ghb3 Boom | $6,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Redeemer Church of Lubbock | $4,840 | 1 | n/a |
| Corrie Ten Boom Fellowship | $4,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Wycliffe Associates Inc | $4,800 | 4 | n/a |
| Focus on the Family | $4,800 | 4 | n/a |
| Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc | $2,880 | 4 | n/a |
| Open Door Baptist Church | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| B E y O N D | $1,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Prepare International | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Identity Hoops International | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Heritage House | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Reliant Mission Inc | $700 | 1 | n/a |
| Missing Moms | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Family Promise of Lubbock Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Lubbock Christian University | $180 | 1 | 0% |
| The Urban Alternative | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($367k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wentz Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Wentz Family Foundation
- How much does Wentz Family Foundation give?
- Wentz Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $573,210 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 24 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Wentz Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (45%), Education (41%), Health (8%).
- Who are Wentz Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Trinity Christian School Foundation ($1.2M), Turning Point Community Church ($792k), Turning Point for God ($215k).
- Does Wentz Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wentz Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wentz Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, Servant Foundation, Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing.
- Where is Wentz Family Foundation based?
- Wentz Family Foundation is based in TX.
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