Kansas · Private foundation
Woltjen Family 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.
- $18k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $694k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Woltjen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 13 | $18k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $40k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $34k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $34k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $36k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $31k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $18k | 37% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $23k | 63% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salvation Army | $26,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Harvesters - the Community Food Network | $19,700 | 9 | 0% |
| City Union Mission | $17,680 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $11,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Nativity House KC Inc | $10,180 | 6 | 2% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Seton Center Inc | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Brightfocus Foundation | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc | $5,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($119k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Woltjen Family Foundation 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: The Bessemer Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Woltjen Family Foundation
- How much does Woltjen Family Foundation give?
- Woltjen Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $18,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Woltjen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Religion (19%), Education (12%).
- Who are Woltjen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Salvation Army ($26k), Harvesters - the Community Food Network ($20k), City Union Mission ($18k).
- Does Woltjen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Woltjen Family 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 Woltjen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bessemer Giving Fund, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Woltjen Family Foundation based?
- Woltjen Family Foundation is based in KS.
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