Washington · Private foundation
William E Wockner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 57
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $955k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 59
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations William E Wockner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k 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 | 57 | $955k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 59 | $1.1M | 34% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $865k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $942k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evergreenhealth Foundation | $190,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc | $135,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Endowment for Equal Justice | $100,000 | 3 | 3% |
| NW Childrens Foundation | $95,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Northshore Senior Center | $85,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Medic One Foundation | $85,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Seattle Children's Foundation | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Parkview Services | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Reboot Recovery Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Earthcorps | $70,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
William E Wockner Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 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: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Community Foundation of Snohomish County · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Real Progress Foundation · Raikes Foundation
How this is measured
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About William E Wockner Foundation
- How much does William E Wockner Foundation give?
- William E Wockner Foundation reported 57 itemized grants totaling $955,000, out of $1,145,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 59 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does William E Wockner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (12%), Human Services (10%), Animals (4%).
- Who are William E Wockner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Evergreenhealth Foundation ($190k), Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ($135k), Endowment for Equal Justice ($100k).
- Does William E Wockner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William E Wockner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William E Wockner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation.
- Where is William E Wockner Foundation based?
- William E Wockner Foundation is based in WA.
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