Wisconsin · Private foundation
Wipfli Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $477k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 75
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 117
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 20
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Wipfli Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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 | 69 | $477k | 46% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $259k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 77 | $196k | 62% |
| FY2022 | 117 | $351k | 79% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $99k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $170k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $158k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $139k | 9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Foundation Inc | $163,160 | 9 | 0% |
| Uw-Whitewater Foundation Inc | $162,950 | 9 | 1% |
| West Chester University Foundation | $92,800 | 8 | 0% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $80,736 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin - la Crosse Alumni & Friends Foundation Inc | $48,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Northern Illinois University Foundation | $47,600 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $45,800 | 9 | 0% |
| The University of Montana Foundation | $38,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Direct Relief | $35,358 | 1 | 0% |
| Marquette University | $33,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 153 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 71 recipients with no EIN on record ($559k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wipfli Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Otto Bremer Trust · Ernst & Young Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · The Presser Foundation · Deloitte Foundation
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Wipfli Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Wipfli Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Wipfli Foundation Inc
- How much does Wipfli Foundation Inc give?
- Wipfli Foundation Inc reported 75 grants totaling $476,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 117 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wipfli Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (70%), International (9%), Employment (4%).
- Who are Wipfli Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Foundation Inc ($163k), Uw-Whitewater Foundation Inc ($163k), West Chester University Foundation ($93k).
- Does Wipfli Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wipfli Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wipfli Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Ernst & Young Foundation, Green Bay Packers Foundation.
- Where is Wipfli Foundation Inc based?
- Wipfli Foundation Inc is based in WI.
Play a game based on Wipfli’s filings →