Quick Summary
Name: Weiss Asset Management Foundation Inc (WAM Foundation) Status: Active Grant Maker
Key Facts
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Annual Giving | $596,000 (2024) - $15.1M announced 2025 |
| Grant Range | $50,000 - $1,500,000+ |
| Average Grant | $150,000 - $1,500,000 |
| Application Method | Fixed Deadline (periodic RFPs) |
Contact Details
Website: https://www.wamfoundation.org
Address: 222 Berkeley St FL 16, Boston, MA 02116
Geographic Focus
Low- and middle-income countries, primarily in:
- Sub-Saharan Africa (Chad, Malawi, Uganda, multiple countries)
- South Asia (India, Bangladesh, Nepal)
- Sector-agnostic with global reach
Funding Priorities
- Evidence-based, highly cost-effective interventions to reduce human suffering
- Health interventions (acute malnutrition treatment, water purification, anemia/disease reduction, palliative care)
- Mental health integration into community health programs
- Agricultural innovations (stress-tolerant seeds to reduce crop loss)
- Research with high policy/program impact potential
- Operational innovations and experiments
- Projects with plausible path to scale
- High-risk, high-reward projects that other funders won't support
- Work that otherwise would not happen without their funding
What They Don't Fund
- Projects in high-income countries (focus is low- and middle-income countries)
- Unsolicited proposals outside of formal RFP cycles
- Projects that will receive funding from other sources
- Projects without strong evidence base or path to building evidence
Application Method
Periodic Request for Proposals (RFP) with fixed deadlines:
- Applications open periodically (most recent cycle closed November 2024)
- Online application process via their website
- Anonymous expert review of selected proposals
- Decisions made 6+ months after deadline
- Two grant types: Project-based support (up to 3 years) and General support for organizations
- No individualized feedback provided to unsuccessful applicants
Note: Foundation only makes contributions through formal RFP process - does not accept unsolicited requests outside of open application periods.
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