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Wickman Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
30
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$16,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 30
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$560k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Wickman Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$26k0%
FY202330$28k43%
FY202216$23k31%
FY202116$20k38%
FY202021$27k43%
FY201917$21k76%
FY20185$24kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$94kEnvironment$22kArts & Culture$10kEducation$9kHealth$7kHuman Services$6kInternational$4kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CO
VA
MD
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($123k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wickman Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Michigan: $5,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Descents: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $2,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood of Affordable Housing Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarvard Historical Society: $1,700 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Defense Fund: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPine Street Inn Inc: $1,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Heroes Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOpen Sky Community Services Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRotary District 6400 Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHarvard Conservation Trust: $850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGroton Hill Music Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReading Is Fundamental Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTouchstone Community School Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Lawrence University: $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Harvard Schools Trust Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNashua River Watershed Assoc Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Compassionate Friends Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHousehold Goods Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Home for Little Wanderers Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Boston Foundation IncMA12.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Wickman Family Foundation Inc

How much does Wickman Family Foundation Inc give?
Wickman Family Foundation Inc reported 16 grants totaling $26,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Wickman Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (55%), Environment (13%), Arts & Culture (6%).
Who are Wickman Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Harvard Cultural Collaborative ($7k), George School ($6k), University of Michigan ($5k).
Does Wickman Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wickman Family Foundation Inc 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 Wickman Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Verizon Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is Wickman Family Foundation Inc based?
Wickman Family Foundation Inc is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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