New York · Private foundation
Wild 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.
- $199k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 48
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Wild Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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 | 37 | $199k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $173k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $178k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $205k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $148k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $150k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $155k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manitoga Inc | $364,500 | 7 | 6% |
| Union Theological Seminary | $131,435 | 7 | 0% |
| Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks | $50,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Corlears School | $49,500 | 7 | 0% |
| New York City Ballet Inc | $42,520 | 7 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $31,300 | 7 | 0% |
| Riverside Park Conservancy Inc | $25,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Trustees of Deerfield Academy | $22,500 | 7 | 0% |
| West Side Center for Community Life | $19,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United States Association for UNHCR | $17,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($179k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wild 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 Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Fjc · Overhills Foundation · Ag Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Wild Foundation
- How much does Wild Foundation give?
- Wild Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $199,002 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 48 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Wild Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (36%), Education (29%), Arts & Culture (18%).
- Who are Wild Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Manitoga Inc ($365k), Union Theological Seminary ($131k), Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks ($50k).
- Does Wild Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wild 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 Wild Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, The Ford Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Wild Foundation based?
- Wild Foundation is based in NY.
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