Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation

• The foundation makes contributions only to organisations it has preselected and does not accept unsolicited requests, so a cold application is unlikely to be considered; the realistic first step is an introduction or an existing relationship.
• Its recorded grants span many charitable fields and the filings state no formal funding theme, so fit depends on the organisation's own mission.
• About 8 in 10 of its grants fall between $4,000 and $150,000 and the median is $60,000, so a request near that level is a sensible starting point, though its largest grant was $4,000,000 and the band is not a ceiling.
• Its giving is highly repetitive: 97% of its grant dollars in its most recent filing went to organisations it had also funded in its earlier filings, so an organisation new to the foundation should expect to be entering a relationship-led funder.
• The filings show grants mainly in Tennessee, South Carolina and Florida, but no geographic focus is stated, so that pattern describes where it has given rather than who may apply.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Trevecca Nazarene University · To further the mission of the organization.
  $2,000,0002024 tax year
• Habitat For Humanity - Greenville County · To further the mission of the organization.
  $180,3332024 tax year
• Habitat for Humanity of Collier County · To further the mission of the organization.
  $175,0002024 tax year
• Naples First Church of the Nazarene · To further the mission of the organization.
  $100,0002024 tax year
• First Church of the Nazarene - Greenville · To further the mission of the organization.
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Salvation Army Kroc Center · To further the mission of the organization.
  $65,3332024 tax year
• Harvest Hope Food Bank · To further the mission of the organization.
  $62,0002024 tax year
• A Child's Haven · To further the mission of the organization.
  $60,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.