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The Wikstrom Foundation Tr Ua

Dallas, TX · EIN 14-6014286. Reported 53 grants totalling $692,320 to 19 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$692,320granted, 2021-2025
19recipients, as named on its returns
77%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,196,454assets, 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 $47,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$5,000 - $10,000
19 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
26 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Palm Beach Symphony Society IncPalm Beach, FL$166,500552025
Diocese of Palm BeachPalm Beach Gardens, FL$125,820552025
Skaneateles Festival IncSkaneateles, NY$70,000552025
Le Moyne CollegeSyracuse, NY$55,000442025
Francis HouseSyracuse, NY$50,000552025
St Edwards Catholic ChurchPalm Beach, FL$42,500442025
The Palm Beach OperaWest Palm, FL$30,000332024
Laker Transportation Project IncSkaneateles, NY$25,000442025
St Mary's of the Lake ChurchSkaneateles, NY$22,500332025
Catholic Charities of Palm Beach DiocesePalm Beach Gardens, FL$20,000112023
Palm Beach Police Foundation IncPalm Beach, FL$15,000222022
Annual Fund for WalkerSimsbury, CT$10,000222025
Catholic Charities of the DiocesePalm Beach Gardens, FL$10,000222022
John D Barrow Art GallerySkaneateles, NY$10,000112022
John D Barrow GallerySkaneateles, NY$10,000222025
Palm Beach Round TableWest Palm Beach, FL$10,000112021
Rehab Cntr for Children & AdultsPaln Beach, FL$10,000222022
One East Sixtieth St FdnNew York, NY$5,000112022
Skaneateles Volunteer Fire DeptSkaneateles, NY$5,000112025

14 of 19 (74%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 77%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 25 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Human Services
12 grants
Arts & Culture
6 grants
Education
4 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
202511$148,750$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

62% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Florida
$430K
New York
$252K
Connecticut
$10K

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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc8 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program7 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust7 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. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  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 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

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.

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