Florida · Private foundation
Wonderful Life Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $25M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $4,167,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 35
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $24M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 26% of the organizations Wonderful Life Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 31 | $21M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $16M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $12M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $8.2M | 37% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $6.7M | 41% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $5.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago | $16,585,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Woodlands Academy | $11,810,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Central Presbyterian Church | $9,800,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Wofford College | $7,000,893 | 6 | 1% |
| Northwestern University | $5,200,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Catholic Church Extension Society of US of Amer | $3,550,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Friends of Univ of Notre Dame | $2,000,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Ronald McDonald House Global | $1,250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $1,200,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Jazz at Aspen-Snowmass | $600,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wonderful Life Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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: J Christopher and Anne N Reyes Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Wonderful Life Foundation
- How much does Wonderful Life Foundation give?
- Wonderful Life Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $24,729,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 35 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Wonderful Life Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (38%), Education (24%), Health (19%).
- Who are Wonderful Life Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ($17M), Woodlands Academy ($12M), Central Presbyterian Church ($9.8M).
- Does Wonderful Life Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wonderful Life 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 Wonderful Life Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include J Christopher and Anne N Reyes Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Wonderful Life Foundation based?
- Wonderful Life Foundation is based in FL.
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