Illinois · Private foundation
Wf 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.
- $345k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Wf Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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 | 32 | $335k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $312k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $318k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $182k | 55% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $143k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $147k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $82k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $37k | 8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $225,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | $117,500 | 6 | 0% |
| 626 Landmark Foundation | $105,000 | 7 | 12% |
| State University of Iowa Foundation | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $90,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc | $71,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Meadow Club Foundation | $70,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $58,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($235k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wf 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 Chicago Community Trust · Marin Community Foundation · Almeida Family Foundation · Hillenbrand Family Foundation · Bessent-Freeman Family Foundation Inc · The Clyde and Summer Anderson Foundation · Guffey Family Foundation · Kirby Family Foundation Inc · South Carolina Humanities Council Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Wf Foundation
- How much does Wf Foundation give?
- Wf Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $345,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wf Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (29%), Education (26%), Arts & Culture (19%).
- Who are Wf Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of California San Francisco Foundation ($225k), Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ($118k), 626 Landmark Foundation ($105k).
- Does Wf Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wf 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 Wf Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Marin Community Foundation, Almeida Family Foundation.
- Where is Wf Foundation based?
- Wf Foundation is based in IL.
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