Delaware · Private foundation
Wrethinking the 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.
- $629k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $470,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 10
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Wrethinking the Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 82% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k 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 | 7 | $629k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $610k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $694k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $1.1M | 60% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $750k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $540k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uc San Diego Foundation | $1,255,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Internet Safety Labs | $960,000 | 2 | 72% |
| Innovative Engineering Consortium | $540,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Don Norman Design Award | $100,000 | 1 | 44% |
| Illinois Institute of Technology | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Girl Scouts San Diego-Imperial Council Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ocean Discovery Institute | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| San Diego Youth Symphony & Conservatory | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wireless History Foundation | $17,500 | 2 | 2% |
| ProduceGood | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uc San Diego Foundation | $1,255,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Internet Safety Labs | $960,000 | 2 | 72% |
| Innovative Engineering Consortium | $540,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Don Norman Design Award | $100,000 | 1 | 44% |
| Illinois Institute of Technology | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Girl Scouts San Diego-Imperial Council Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ocean Discovery Institute | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| San Diego Youth Symphony & Conservatory | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wireless History Foundation | $17,500 | 2 | 2% |
| ProduceGood | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Del Mar Community Connections Dmcc | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Cinequest Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wrethinking the Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 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: The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Wrethinking the Foundation
- How much does Wrethinking the Foundation give?
- Wrethinking the Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $629,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Wrethinking the Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (35%), Community Improvement (31%), Education (29%).
- Who are Wrethinking the Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Uc San Diego Foundation ($1.3M), Internet Safety Labs ($960k), Innovative Engineering Consortium ($540k).
- Does Wrethinking the Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wrethinking the 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 Wrethinking the Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Conrad Prebys Foundation, Sempra Foundation, The Cushman Foundation.
- Where is Wrethinking the Foundation based?
- Wrethinking the Foundation is based in DE.
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