Wiese Foundation

Analysis

Wiese Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Perry, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1978, 48 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Wiese Foundation reported income of $439k and spending of $370k, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $339k to $439k (+29%), an average of +6.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 134%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Wiese Foundation sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 71st percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Monroe County Iowa Community Foundation ($439k), Ashlin Mae Kleven Foundation ($439k) and Push BC Corporation ($439k).

Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $6,875 (1.9% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $8.2m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $8.2m.