Massachusetts · Private foundation
Wilensky Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $66k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,770
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,770
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $967k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Wilensky Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 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 | 23 | $64k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $64k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $54k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $57k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $48k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $49k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $52k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $52k | 41% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $24,535 | 9 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $24,285 | 9 | 0% |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | $24,285 | 9 | 0% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $23,735 | 9 | 0% |
| The Cat House on the Kings Inc | $21,485 | 8 | 0% |
| Neads Inc | $18,985 | 7 | 0% |
| Kylees Kare Kits for Kidz Inc | $15,043 | 6 | 6% |
| The Charlie Daniels Journey Home Project | $13,585 | 5 | 1% |
| Healing Towers Inc | $13,585 | 5 | 3% |
| Puffy Paws Kitty Haven Inc | $13,286 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($176k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wilensky Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · 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
About Wilensky Foundation
- How much does Wilensky Foundation give?
- Wilensky Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $66,480 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wilensky Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (20%), Religion (15%), Health (14%).
- Who are Wilensky Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($25k), Blood Cancer United Inc ($24k), Marine Toys for Tots Foundation ($24k).
- Does Wilensky Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wilensky Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wilensky Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Network for Good, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Wilensky Foundation based?
- Wilensky Foundation is based in MA.
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