· Private foundation
Barbara F Wheeler Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k16 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY ARC | $60,000 |
| SISTERS OF ST MARY OF NAMUR | $40,000 |
| MANNA STOREHOUSE | $40,000 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES | $30,000 |
| HOLY REDEEMER CATHOLIC PARISH | $30,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINECENT DE PAUL | $30,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY PARISH | $25,000 |
| PARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE | $25,000 |
| WHOLE LIFE AUTHENTIC CARE | $25,000 |
| ALEDO UNITED METHODIT CHURCH | $20,000 |
| BEAUTIFUL FEET MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF TEXAS | $15,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $15,000 |
| THREE MOUNTAINS MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC WORLDVIEW FELLOWSHIP | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $838k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MSMANNA STOREHOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +153%
- COCASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +42%
- PCPARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $285k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- SAST ANDREWS CATHOLIC CHURCH-FOODone grant, 2017 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $20k
- AEALEDO EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Texas Nonprofit Hospice Alliance (TNPHA) is a group of nonprofit hospices dedicated to sharing best practices and providing quality care for individuals with life-limiting illnesses.
Pregnancy counseling
Uniting volunteers to prepare meals that get delivered to the food insecure
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.
Established in 1934, vna helps older adults live with dignity and independence at home by providing in-home care, food and friendship for the ill, hungry, and homebound.
To foster the independence and dignity of homebound seniors in montgomery county by providing them with nutritious meals, transportation, and caring connections.
Counseling
To nourish and enrich the lives of the homebound and other people in need through programs that promote dignity and independent living.
Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services and enable older adults to live in their own homes safely and independently as long as they are able.
Christian organization offering a hopeful future by empowering women and men to make life-affirming decisions
Assisting the poor and needy with food, clothing, medical , rent, and utilites.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Healthcare of Texas and the most unlike its peers is Catholic Worldview Fellowship. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MANNA STOREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds WHOLELIFE AUTHENTIC CARE ↗
- Who funds Community Healthcare of Texas ↗
- Who funds The American Legion ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC WORLDVIEW FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Barbara F Wheeler Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.