Kansas · Private foundation
Wilderness Comm Education 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.
- $15k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $600k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Wilderness Comm Education Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 1 | $15k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $9k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $11k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $10k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $13k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $13k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $13k | 12% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $15k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Meals on Wheels Inc | $8,965 | 7 | 1% |
| Lawrence Community Shelter Inc | $8,550 | 7 | 0% |
| American Indian College Fund | $5,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Friends of the Kaw Inc | $4,350 | 7 | 1% |
| The Cornucopia Institute Inc | $3,600 | 7 | 0% |
| Justice Matters INC | $3,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Kansas Rural Center | $2,900 | 7 | 0% |
| The Land Institute | $2,600 | 7 | 0% |
| Kansas Land Trust Inc | $2,600 | 7 | 0% |
| Environmental Working Group | $2,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Meals on Wheels Inc | $8,965 | 7 | 1% |
| Lawrence Community Shelter Inc | $8,550 | 7 | 0% |
| American Indian College Fund | $5,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Friends of the Kaw Inc | $4,350 | 7 | 1% |
| The Cornucopia Institute Inc | $3,600 | 7 | 0% |
| Justice Matters INC | $3,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Kansas Rural Center | $2,900 | 7 | 0% |
| The Land Institute | $2,600 | 7 | 0% |
| Kansas Land Trust Inc | $2,600 | 7 | 0% |
| Environmental Working Group | $2,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $2,300 | 6 | 0% |
| Bastyr University | $2,200 | 7 | 0% |
| Harvesters - the Community Food Network | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Organic Consumers Association | $1,750 | 6 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($46k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wilderness Comm Education 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: Douglas County Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Wilderness Comm Education Foundation with peer funders
About Wilderness Comm Education Foundation
- How much does Wilderness Comm Education Foundation give?
- Wilderness Comm Education Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $15,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Wilderness Comm Education Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (32%), Environment (32%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
- Who are Wilderness Comm Education Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lawrence Meals on Wheels Inc ($9k), Lawrence Community Shelter Inc ($9k), American Indian College Fund ($5k).
- Does Wilderness Comm Education Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wilderness Comm Education 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 Wilderness Comm Education Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Douglas County Community Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Wilderness Comm Education Foundation based?
- Wilderness Comm Education Foundation is based in KS.
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