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The Wikstrom Foundation Tr Ua

Dallas, TX · EIN 14-6014286. Reported 42 grants totalling $543,570 to 18 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$543,570granted, 2021-2024
18organizations funded
64%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,029,403assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Wikstrom Foundation Tr Ua did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $32,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$5,000 - $10,000
15 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
21 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Palm Beach Symphony Society IncPalm Beach, FL$119,000442024
Diocese of Palm BeachPalm Beach Gardens, FL$99,570442024
Skaneateles Festival IncSkaneateles, NY$60,000442024
Francis HouseSyracuse, NY$40,000442024
Le Moyne CollegeSyracuse, NY$40,000332024
St Edwards Catholic ChurchPalm Beach, FL$32,500332024
The Palm Beach OperaWest Palm, FL$30,000332024
Catholic Charities of Palm Beach DiocesePalm Beach Gardens, FL$20,000112023
Laker Transportation Project IncSkaneateles, NY$20,000332024
Palm Beach Police Foundation IncPalm Beach, FL$15,000222022
St Mary's of the Lake ChurchSkaneateles, NY$12,500222024
Catholic Charities of the DiocesePalm Beach Gardens, FL$10,000222022
John D Barrow Art GallerySkaneateles, NY$10,000112022
Palm Beach Round TableWest Palm Beach, FL$10,000112021
Rehab Cntr for Children & AdultsPaln Beach, FL$10,000222022
Annual Fund for WalkerSimsbury, CT$5,000112024
John D Barrow GallerySkaneateles, NY$5,000112024
One East Sixtieth St FdnNew York, NY$5,000112022

12 of 18 (67%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 64%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 21 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
10 grants
Arts & Culture
5 grants
Education
3 grants
Crime & Legal
2 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202111$150,000$15,000
202210$119,200$10,000
202310$135,620$10,000
202411$138,750$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 64% of this one's giving went to organizations in Florida. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Florida
$346K
New York
$192K
Connecticut
$5K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc8 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program7 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust6 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation5 shared recipientsGs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Florida.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Wikstrom Foundation Tr Ua's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 653067, Dallas, TX, 75265. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 14-6014286 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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