· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k16 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY ARC | $60,000 |
| MANNA STOREHOUSE | $40,000 |
| SISTERS OF ST MARY OF NAMUR | $40,000 |
| HOLY REDEEMER CATHOLIC PARISH | $30,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINECENT DE PAUL | $30,000 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES | $30,000 |
| PARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE | $25,000 |
| WHOLE LIFE AUTHENTIC CARE | $25,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY PARISH | $25,000 |
| ALEDO UNITED METHODIT CHURCH | $20,000 |
| BEAUTIFUL FEET MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| THREE MOUNTAINS MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF TEXAS | $15,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC WORLDVIEW FELLOWSHIP | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Barbara F Wheeler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barbara F Wheeler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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