OVERVIEW: The Wiederhold Foundation, a registered 501c3 organization, is housed within the Community Foundation of Northwest Connecticut and focuses its giving on animals and the environment. IP TAKE: The Wiederhold Foundation is administered by … [Read more...] about John T. and Jane A. Wiederhold Foundation
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Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation supports higher education, humanities research, arts and culture, medical research, human rights and democracy. IP TAKE: The Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation tends to stick with its founder's specific … [Read more...] about Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation
Wainwright Trusts
OVERVIEW: The Wainwright Trusts support social justice and equity in the U.K. and Zimbabwe. IP TAKE: The Wainwright Trust is a progressive and accessible U.K.-based funder. Small grassroots groups that tackle the root causes of social injustice … [Read more...] about Wainwright Trusts
Whole Foods Market Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Whole Foods Market Foundation supports financial inclusion and smallholder-farmer livelihoods around the world, healthy food access in the U.S. and Canada, and children’s nutrition. Its funding mechanisms range from large, … [Read more...] about Whole Foods Market Foundation
Waitt Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Waitt Foundation predominately funds an institute working in ocean issues. It also makes grants to support marine protected areas and sustainable fisheries. IP TAKE: The Waitt Foundation prefers to work with large, established … [Read more...] about Waitt Foundation
Wenner-Gren Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research supports anthropological research, scholarship, public-facing work, international training and programs that strengthen the discipline of anthropology worldwide. IP TAKE: … [Read more...] about Wenner-Gren Foundation
Wilburforce Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Wilburforce Foundation supports conservation across Western North America, with a focus on protecting and connecting lands, waters and wildlife. Its grantmaking centers on 13 priority regions organized under three geographic programs: … [Read more...] about Wilburforce Foundation
Alice L. Walton Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Alice L. Walton Foundation (ALWF) is the private foundation of Walmart heir and philanthropist Alice Walton. Founded in 2017 and based in Bentonville, Arkansas, the foundation supports arts and culture, education, community, and health … [Read more...] about Alice L. Walton Foundation
Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation (WFCSF) is a highly restricted supporting organization that primarily backs colleges and universities in Arkansas, along with community foundations in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and … [Read more...] about Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation
Wallace Genetic Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Wallace Genetic Foundation supports environmental and natural resource conservation, global water and sanitation, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, environmental health and climate-related work. It also funds environmental policy, … [Read more...] about Wallace Genetic Foundation
Wells Fargo
OVERVIEW: Wells Fargo and the Wells Fargo Foundation support financial opportunity, housing access and affordability, and small business growth. Grantmaking is national and local, with additional opportunities sometimes available through intermediary … [Read more...] about Wells Fargo
Whitehall Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Whitehall Foundation supports basic research in vertebrate and invertebrate neurobiology, with an emphasis on neural mechanisms underlying behavior. Its funding is restricted to researchers at the Assistant Professor level working at … [Read more...] about Whitehall Foundation
Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation is a large, spend-down foundation concentrating nearly all of its grantmaking in Western New York and Southeast Michigan. IP TAKE: The Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation is a must-know grantmaker for … [Read more...] about Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation
Wiancko Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Wiancko Family Foundation primarily supports environmental and wildlife conservation, with a particularly strong record of funding organizations working in the Pacific Northwest. Reproductive health and rights are another significant … [Read more...] about Wiancko Family Foundation
Robert W. Woodruff Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation is a major Georgia grantmaker that focuses primarily on metro Atlanta, with occasional support for significant initiatives elsewhere in the state. It makes grants in six areas: health, education, community … [Read more...] about Robert W. Woodruff Foundation
Wexner Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Wexner Foundation runs programs to develop Jewish leadership in the U.S. and Israel. Additional giving addresses Jewish education and, to a lesser extend, non-religious higher education and medicine. IP TAKE: The Wexner Foundation is … [Read more...] about Wexner Foundation
Workday Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Workday Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Workday, a California-based enterprise software company. Workforce development remains its largest and most established priority, but its interests now extend beyond technology training. … [Read more...] about Workday Foundation
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
OVERVIEW: Established in New York in 1987 under the terms of Andy Warhol’s will, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts advances contemporary visual art while preserving and managing Warhol’s artistic legacy. Its grantmaking is decidedly … [Read more...] about Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Wilf Family Foundations
OVERVIEW: The Wilf Family Foundations are a conglomerate of six private family foundations based in New Jersey. The foundations’ largest area of giving is Jewish causes, but they also support education, social justice, democracy, health, disaster … [Read more...] about Wilf Family Foundations
Wild Geese Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Wild Geese Foundation supports youth, reproductive justice, climate justice and food justice. Its grantmaking combines national support for social-justice organizations with a regional focus on food systems in New England. IP TAKE: … [Read more...] about Wild Geese Foundation
Woodcock Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Woodcock Foundation’s current areas of focus include conservation, sustainable food systems, promoting educational and economic opportunity, civic engagement and democracy. IP TAKE: The Woodcock Foundation is a progressive family … [Read more...] about Woodcock Foundation
Wounded Warrior Project
OVERVIEW: Wounded Warrior Project is a large, Jacksonville-based veterans service organization that provides free programs to post-9/11 veterans and their families, advocates on veterans’ issues and invests heavily in other military and … [Read more...] about Wounded Warrior Project
Wyss Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Wyss Foundation supports environmental conservation, economic opportunity, medical research and healthcare, education and the arts. Its grantmaking is global, although much of its U.S. conservation work remains rooted in the American … [Read more...] about Wyss Foundation
Wagner Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Wagner Foundation supports health equity, economic wellbeing, and contemporary art and culture in the United States and internationally. Its domestic giving is concentrated in Greater Boston, while its international work focuses on … [Read more...] about Wagner Foundation
Wellcome Trust
OVERVIEW: Wellcome is a London-based global charitable foundation and one of the world’s largest funders of health research. IP TAKE: Wellcome is one of the world’s largest health-research funders, backing ambitious work across Discovery … [Read more...] about Wellcome Trust
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation supports direct-service nonprofits working in housing, health, jobs, education and aging. Grantmaking primarily serves people experiencing poverty in the United States and Israel, with a strong … [Read more...] about Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
The Wallace Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Wallace Foundation supports K-12 education and the arts, as well as research on best practices and organizational effectiveness. Recent areas of specific interest have included out-of-school learning and arts organizations for people of … [Read more...] about The Wallace Foundation
Walton Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Walton Family Foundation is a major funder of K–12 education, river and ocean conservation, and place-based work in Northwest Arkansas and the Arkansas-Mississippi Delta. Its education funding operates nationally, while its … [Read more...] about Walton Family Foundation
Walmart.org
OVERVIEW: Walmart.org supports workforce advancement, environmental sustainability, food access, disaster resilience and community connection. It also operates accessible local-giving programs and makes significant investments in Northwest Arkansas. … [Read more...] about Walmart.org
Wyncote Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Wyncote Foundation’s interest areas include the education, health & human services, preservation, as well as interests in journalism, the Northwest and the the performing arts. IP TAKE: Part of the Haas family philanthropic … [Read more...] about Wyncote Foundation
