Illinois · Nonprofit
WAGNER DESCENDANT'S FOUNDATION
WAGNER DESCENDANT'S FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,925 to it, the largest being ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE ($35,925). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $203k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Wagner Descendant's Foundation does
Mission
The foundation is organized to foster, promote, support, develop, and maintain the broad, charitable, educational or religious purpose or functions as authorized by the charter of the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago and the by-laws of the foundation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The foundation makes grants to charitable organizations which are tax expempt under the irc section 501(c)(3) and meet the guidelines of the charter of the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago & the by-laws of the foundation.
$70,000 spentof which $70,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $70,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $515k to $1.9M (+278%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
0% of WAGNER DESCENDANT'S FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of WAGNER DESCENDANT'S FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of WAGNER DESCENDANT'S FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
WAGNER DESCENDANT'S FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WAGNER DESCENDANT'S FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 42 related entities
- Albert and Lucille Delighter & Marcella Winston Foundation · exempt
- Bellows Family Foundation · exempt
- Bls Family Foundation · exempt
- Bucksbaum Family Foundation · exempt
- Charles & Audrey Dann Charitable Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAGNER DESCENDANT'S FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WAGNER DESCENDANT'S FOUNDATION?
- WAGNER DESCENDANT'S FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,925 to it, the largest being ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE ($35,925). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WAGNER DESCENDANT'S FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $35,925 in grants to WAGNER DESCENDANT'S FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of WAGNER DESCENDANT'S FOUNDATION?
- ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE is the largest funder on record, with $35,925 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAGNER DESCENDANT'S FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing