Who funds Wesleyan University?
Middletown, Connecticut · EIN 06-0646959 · NTEE B420 · 501(c)(3)
171 private foundations paid Wesleyan University 350 grants on IRS Form 990-PF returns for tax year 2022 or later, $23.6M in all. Its IRS activity code (NTEE B420) places it in education.
All years on file, including returns before 2022.
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Foundations that funded it
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Largest grants since 2022
Largest first. The purpose is what the foundation wrote on its return, for the tax year shown.
- The Fries Foundation · 2023 - General & Unrestricted$1,500,000
- Linde Family Foundation · 2024 - Undergraduate financial aid endowment fund, facilities fund & center for prison education$1,025,000
- Linde Family Foundation · 2023 - Linde family foundation wesleyan undergraduate financial aid fund/facilities fund/wesleyan university center for prison education$1,010,000
- R&t P Family Foundation Inc · 2023 - General purpose$1,000,000
- The Allbritton Foundation · 2023 - Endowment to support the allbritton center for the study of public life$1,000,000
- Creekside Foundation · 2024 - To support the facilities fund.$900,000
- Lemberg Foundation Inc · 2024 - General public support$810,000
- Dietrich American Foundation · 2025 - Charitable purpose$766,600
- Lemberg Foundation Inc · 2023 - General public support$700,000
- The Boyer-Snyder Family Foundation · 2024 - Third payment of 2021 pledge$600,000
- The Boyer-Snyder Family Foundation · 2023 - Third payment of 2021 pledge$600,000
- Robert and Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation Inc · 2024 - To support higher education$510,000
- The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust · 2024 - General Use$500,000
- Kentfields Foundation Inc · 2024 - Discretionary distribution$500,000
- John S and James L Knight Foundation Inc · 2024 - To provide need-based financial aid to undergraduate students at wesleyan university through the permanent endowment of the alberto…$500,000
- Kentfields Foundation Inc · 2023 - Wesleyan University Annual Fund ; Wesleyan University Professorship$500,000
- The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust · 2023 - General Use$500,000
- Dietrich American Foundation · 2023 - Charitable purpose$425,180
- Boger Family Foundation Inc · 2023 - Exempt purposes$425,000
- Laura and John Arnold Foundation · 2023 - To conduct a historical analysis of firearms regulation in five states and share what has been learned through a variety of deliverables,…$406,295
- Robert F Schumann Foundation · 2025 - General operating$400,000
- Robert F Schumann Foundation · 2024 - General operating$400,000
- Robert F Schumann Foundation · 2023 - General operating$400,000
- Creekside Foundation · 2023 - To support the facilities fund.$400,000
- Dietrich American Foundation · 2024 - Charitable purpose$384,000
Organizations the same foundations fund
Organizations paid by many of the same foundations since 2022, by how much their lists of funders overlap.
- Trustees of Boston UniversityOxford, OH · 19 shared funders
- Spelman CollegeAtl, GA · 18 shared funders
- Barnard CollegeNew York, NY · 20 shared funders
- Bowdoin CollegeBrunswick, ME · 18 shared funders
- University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel Hill, NC · 17 shared funders
- Connecticut CollegeNew London, CT · 16 shared funders
- Vassar CollegePoughkeepsie, NY · 17 shared funders
- Trustees of Tufts CollegeMedford, MA · 16 shared funders
By tax year of the funder's return
| Year | Grants | Foundations | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | 40 | $2.1M |
| 2024 | 124 | 111 | $9.2M |
| 2023 | 164 | 129 | $11.7M |
| 2022 | 19 | 19 | $721K |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | $28K |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | $1,500 |
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How this page is made
Each grant comes from a foundation's IRS Form 990-PF and was linked to this EIN only when this was the single organization in the IRS Business Master File with that name in that state. Grants written under a different spelling, or where several organizations share the name, are not counted here, so the real totals can be higher. Government grants and gifts from individuals do not appear on these returns.
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 06-0646959
- IRS Business Master File record updated Nov 9, 2026; listed in Publication 78 (eligible for deductible contributions)
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