OVERVIEW: Wellcome Leap is a global health research funder that creates large, time-limited research programs around ambitious health goals. It funds universities, research institutes, nonprofits and companies around the world to pursue them. IP … [Read more...] about Wellcome Leap
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Winslow Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Winslow Foundation mainly supports environmental conservation and clean energy initiatives. Grants have also supported wildlife conservation and women’s reproductive health. IP TAKE: This low-profile family foundation focuses on … [Read more...] about Winslow Foundation
Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation supports youth mental health and sustainable forest communities in the U.S. It also runs an international initiative for education, health and economic opportunity focusing on women and girls in developing … [Read more...] about Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation
Werner-Kohnstamm Family Fund
OVERVIEW: This donor-advised fund supports advocacy for economic justice and the rights of immigrants and migrant workers. It also supports initiatives for underserved teens and young adults. IP TAKE: The Werner-Kohnstamm Family Fund supports a … [Read more...] about Werner-Kohnstamm Family Fund
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation offers three-month residencies to visual artists, writers and composers on its 15-acre campus in Taos, New Mexico. IP TAKE: The Wurlitzer Foundation does not award traditional grants. Its philanthropy … [Read more...] about Helene Wurlitzer Foundation
Women’s Foundation California
OVERVIEW: The Women’s Foundation California makes grants to organizations that work toward racial, economic and gender justice in the state of California. IP TAKE: The Women's Foundation California prioritizes organizations that are led by women … [Read more...] about Women’s Foundation California
Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
OVERVIEW: The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity supports Jewish causes, education and human rights causes around the world. IP TAKE: The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity is singularly focused on issues important to its founder, the Holocaust … [Read more...] about Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
Elaine P. Wynn and Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Wynn family moves philanthropy through the Elaine P. Wynn and Family Foundation which is interested in providing wraparound services for K-12 youth living in poverty; supporting performing and backing organizations where the arts … [Read more...] about Elaine P. Wynn and Family Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit known for producing, hosting and maintaining some of the worlds most well-respected information sharing projects, makes grants to support information equity. This funder prioritizes projects that … [Read more...] about Wikimedia Foundation
Whiting Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Whiting Foundation supports grants for ambitious creative fiction projects in a wide variety of subject areas. These grants are awarded to emerging writers so they can fully devote themselves to their literary work. It also … [Read more...] about Whiting Foundation
Sue and Edgar Wachenheim Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Sue and Edgar Wachenheim Foundation primarily funds grantmaking related to education and the arts. It also earmarks funds for health, democracy and Jewish causes. IP TAKE: The Wachenheim Foundation keeps a low public profile, … [Read more...] about Sue and Edgar Wachenheim Foundation
Amos and Ruth Wilnai Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Amos and Ruth Wilnai Foundation mainly supports U.S.-based organizations and intermediaries that support work in Israel. Each year, the foundation also supports a handful of U.S. Jewish organizations and a select few nonprofits that are … [Read more...] about Amos and Ruth Wilnai Foundation
Woodforest Charitable Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Woodforest Charitable Foundation’s primary focus is hunger, and a large portion of its grants go to food banks, feeding programs and hunger-relief organizations in the 17 states served by its parent banking company. Other areas of … [Read more...] about Woodforest Charitable Foundation
Women First International Fund
OVERVIEW: The Women First International Fund supports women and girls, global development, refugees, human rights and LGBTQ causes in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and India. IP TAKE: Women First changed course in 2025 and now operates a … [Read more...] about Women First International Fund
Women’s Foundation of Massachusetts
OVERVIEW: The Women’s Foundation of Massachusetts invests in women and girls in the Greater-Boston area in education, financial empowerment, and leadership development. IP TAKE: The Women’s Foundation of Massachusetts is a growing state-wide … [Read more...] about Women’s Foundation of Massachusetts
Women Photograph
OVERVIEW: Women Photograph supports women, gender nonconforming, transgender, genderqueer and nonbinary photographers. IP TAKE: Women Photograph seeks to support documentary photography from a diversity of gender perspectives. While it is an … [Read more...] about Women Photograph
Women in Film
OVERVIEW: Women in Film supports early-stage women, nonbinary and trans filmmakers and industry professionals with workshops, fellowships and other career development programs. IP TAKE: Women in Film is an important resource for women, nonbinary … [Read more...] about Women in Film
Waterloo Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Wales-based Waterloo Foundation awards awards grants for global development, environmental causes, child development and work and opportunity in Wales. IP TAKE: The Waterloo Foundation is an accessible and transparent funder, but it … [Read more...] about Waterloo Foundation
Woodshouse Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Woodshouse Foundation supports an eclectic mix of organizations working in areas like sustainable agriculture, democracy and Waldorf education. IP TAKE: The Woodshouse Foundation demonstrates a strong interest in some small and … [Read more...] about Woodshouse Foundation
Wayne State University Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Wayne State University Foundation raises, manages and stewards philanthropic support for Wayne State University, including scholarships, faculty support, research, academic programs and campus infrastructure. IP TAKE: The Wayne State … [Read more...] about Wayne State University Foundation
Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation is the current philanthropic organization for Oprah Winfrey. It makes grants to support organizations in the areas of education, food insecurity, healthcare and housing. IP TAKE: The Oprah Winfrey … [Read more...] about Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation
Winston Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Winston Foundation is a New York-based private foundation with broad interests spanning higher education, health, civil rights, arts and culture, the environment and human services. Its grantmaking has a strong New York and Northeast … [Read more...] about Winston Foundation
WITH Foundation
OVERVIEW: The WITH Foundation supports health services, research, advocacy and professional development programs that aim to improve healthcare for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. IP TAKE: In its vision statement, the WITH … [Read more...] about WITH Foundation
Weissberg Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Weissberg Foundation supports organizations led by Black, Indigenous and Communities of Color in the areas of organizing, economic, political and narrative power. IP TAKE: The Weissberg foundation recently restructured its … [Read more...] about Weissberg Foundation
Gary and Mary West Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Gary and Mary West Foundation supports organizations focused on improving the health and overall well-being of the U.S.’s aging population. IP TAKE: According to the West Health website, the United States is “in the midst of one … [Read more...] about Gary and Mary West Foundation
Walther Cancer Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Walther Cancer Foundation supports cancer research, institutional capacity, bioinformatics and supportive oncology at select universities in Indiana. IP TAKE: The Walther Cancer Foundation typically does not veer from its three core … [Read more...] about Walther Cancer Foundation
Welch Foundation
OVERVIEW: This Houston-based funder supports chemistry research and education in the state of Texas. IP TAKE: The Welch Foundation accepts applications and nominations for research grants, fellowships, scholarships, endowed chairs and other … [Read more...] about Welch Foundation
The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music
OVERVIEW: The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music supports performance, scholarly output and professional development related to the work and lives of Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya and Marc Blitzstein. IP TAKE: This is a niche music funder that limits … [Read more...] about The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music
Wasserman Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Wasserman Foundation funds education, health, arts and culture, community development and a few global development initiatives. Los Angeles is a geographic focus. IP TAKE: The Wasserman Foundation gives broadly in Los Angeles and … [Read more...] about Wasserman Foundation
Dume Wolverine Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Dume Wolverine Foundation supports education, health, international development and human rights, journalism and civic engagement, and animal and wildlife causes. Its recent grantmaking also includes conservation and selected human … [Read more...] about Dume Wolverine Foundation
