California · Private foundation
Wisteria 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.
- $94k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 14
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Wisteria Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 10 | $94k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $83k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $76k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $70k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $133k | 93% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $65k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Mellon University | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pacific Skyline Council Boy Scouts of America | $39,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Youth Community Services Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Palo Alto Art Center Foundation | $28,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Ada's Cafe | $25,000 | 5 | 1% |
| REEL2e | $23,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Students For Fair Admissions Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Happy Hollow Foundation | $8,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Santa Clara Valley Bird Alliance | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Mellon University | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pacific Skyline Council Boy Scouts of America | $39,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Youth Community Services Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Palo Alto Art Center Foundation | $28,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Ada's Cafe | $25,000 | 5 | 1% |
| REEL2e | $23,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Students For Fair Admissions Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Happy Hollow Foundation | $8,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Santa Clara Valley Bird Alliance | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| City Lights Theater Co of San Jose Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Girls' Middle School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Our City Forest | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($233k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wisteria 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Valley Health Foundation (Vhf) · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Wisteria Foundation
- How much does Wisteria Foundation give?
- Wisteria Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $94,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Wisteria Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Health (14%), Youth Development (14%).
- Who are Wisteria Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Carnegie Mellon University ($50k), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ($40k), Pacific Skyline Council Boy Scouts of America ($39k).
- Does Wisteria Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wisteria 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 Wisteria Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Valley Health Foundation (Vhf).
- Where is Wisteria Foundation based?
- Wisteria Foundation is based in CA.
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