Illinois · Private foundation
Wilemal Fund
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.
- $3.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2024
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $852,336
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 40
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Wilemal Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 42 | $3.1M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $7.7M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $5.1M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $4.4M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $5.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington International School | $6,389,879 | 3 | 8% |
| Lake Forest College | $4,072,637 | 4 | 2% |
| Masters School | $2,352,336 | 3 | 2% |
| Palm Beach Opera Inc | $1,640,970 | 5 | 15% |
| National Audubon Society Inc | $800,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ragdale Foundation | $795,000 | 5 | 16% |
| Hobe Sound Community Chest Inc | $745,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Piedmont Land Conservancy | $600,000 | 3 | 12% |
| The Sawtooth School for Visual Art | $500,000 | 5 | 10% |
| The Banner Lake Club Inc | $400,000 | 5 | 5% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wilemal Fund 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: Legatus Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The David and Elizabeth Long Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · CMB Foundation · Woodward Family Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc
How this is measured
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About Wilemal Fund
- How much does Wilemal Fund give?
- Wilemal Fund reported 44 grants totaling $3,628,298 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Wilemal Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (55%), Arts & Culture (20%), Environment (9%).
- Who are Wilemal Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Washington International School ($6.4M), Lake Forest College ($4.1M), Masters School ($2.4M).
- Does Wilemal Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wilemal Fund 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 Wilemal Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Legatus Foundation, The Winston-Salem Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation.
- Where is Wilemal Fund based?
- Wilemal Fund is based in IL.
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