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Charlotte & Edward K Wheeler Foundation at a glance

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Charlotte & Edward K 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.

$165k
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$127kHealth$119kPublic Benefit$118kAnimals$104kSocial Science$68kEnvironment$62kHuman Services$52kEducation$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k44 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $86k
$1,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BURTON K WHEELER CENTER$22,000
CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION$18,100
THE WHEELER CENTER$15,250
ATLANTIC SALMON FEDERATION$11,000
JAMES B LEE SCHOLARSHIP FUND$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OBEN$10,000
THE SHANE LALANI CENTER$8,500
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY$8,250
THE WADSWORTH-SULGRAVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FDN$7,500
MONTANA FREE PRESS$5,000
CORAMWEST GLACIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$4,750
CANYON COMMUNITY CHURCH$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
FRESH RX$3,500
YELLOWSTONE BALLET SCHOOL$3,300
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ONE SPIRIT: $2k → 14%ONE SPIRIT: $200 → 14%THE GIVING TREE OF PARK COUNTY: $100 → 10%THE GIVING TREE OF PARK COUNTY: $100 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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OH
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MD
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$751k · 59 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
36

Total granted

$751k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+51%

Still filing today

59%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthAnimalsRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BK
    BURTON K WHEELER CENTER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $118k · revenue +409% · 54% of their budget
  • CD
    CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +46%
  • Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +312%

Funded once

  • PI
    PITCCH IN FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -46%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +60%
  • MM
    MOTHERS' MILK BANK NORTHEAST INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +23%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
6
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
11
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
12
American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Founded in 1780, the american academy of arts and sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together "to…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm to School of Park County; the most unlike its peers is Bioneomed Research Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 110 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/66
Grantees still filing
47/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE WHEELER CENTER: $68,350 · OtherTHE WHEELER CENTERTHE SHANE LALANI CENTER: $44,510 · OtherTHE SHANE LALANI CENTERYELLOWSTONE BALLET SCHOOL: $25,400 · OtherYELLOWSTONE BALLET SCHOOLBATH AND TENNIS FOUNDATION: $14,000 · OtherCORAMWEST GLACIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $13,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $13,000 · OtherGULF STREAM COUNCIL BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $12,500 · Other+57 more: $146,290 · Other+57 moreBURTON K WHEELER CENTER INC: $118,000 · Arts & CultureBURTON K WHEELER CENTER INCNational Gallery of Art: $40,000 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery of ArtThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the Four Art…The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $12,500 · Arts & CultureThe Preservation Foundation…WADSWORTH-SULGRAVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $16,200 · Arts & Culture+9 moreCHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION: $100,350 · HealthCHILDREN'S DIAB…MOTHERS' MILK BANK NORTHEAST INC: $10,000 · HealthMOTHERS' MILK B…+6 more: $9,750 · Health+6 moreAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $56,000 · AnimalsAtlantic Salm…THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC: $12,000 · AnimalsTHE ZOOLOGICA…THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN …Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $9,000 · AnimalsPeggy Adams A…FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $5,000 · AnimalsSPCA ALBRECHT CENTER FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $5,000 · AnimalsSTAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER: $3,500 · Animals+1 more: $1,500 · AnimalsGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsPITCCH IN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $500 · Recreation & SportsFRESH RX INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionLIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY: $9,350 · Food & NutritionPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $3,000 · EducationGlades Academy Foundation Inc: $2,500 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth College: $2,500 · EducationThe Madeira School: $2,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,000 · EducationPALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC: $1,250 · EducationALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $1,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationFARM TO SCHOOL OF PARK COUNTY: $700 · Education+2 more: $1,000 · Education
Other$337,300Arts & Culture$209,200Health$120,100Animals$102,000Recreation & Sports$60,500Food & Nutrition$24,350Education$16,950

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBURTON K WHEELER CENTER INC: $118,000 over 6y, 54% of budgetCHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION: $100,350 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $56,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $45,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH RX INC: $15,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPITCCH IN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EXPLORERS CLUB: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS' MILK BANK NORTHEAST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY: $9,350 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHITCHCOCK WOODS FOUNDATION THE: $9,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWADSWORTH-SULGRAVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetASPEN-ABUSE SUPPORT & PREVENTION EDUCATION NETWORK: $6,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMONTANA FREE PRESS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $5,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSPCA ALBRECHT CENTER FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $5,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPOWELL COUNTY MUSEUM AND ARTS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLIVINGSTON CENTER FOR ART AND CULTURE INC: $2,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGlades Academy Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL MIDWIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetONE SPIRIT: $2,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Madeira School: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIntermountain Planned Parenthood: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER SEVEN LAW: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY INC: $800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMONTANA RACIAL EQUITY PROJECT: $750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRED SNEAKERS FOR OAKLEY INC: $750 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 BURTON K WHEELER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc ↗
  • Who funds GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
  • Who funds FRESH RX INC ↗
  • Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds PITCCH IN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EXPLORERS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds MOTHERS' MILK BANK NORTHEAST INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
  • Who funds HITCHCOCK WOODS FOUNDATION THE ↗
  • Who funds WADSWORTH-SULGRAVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN-ABUSE SUPPORT & PREVENTION EDUCATION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA FREE PRESS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SPCA ALBRECHT CENTER FOR ANIMAL WELFARE ↗
  • Who funds STAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER ↗

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.

Solid Rock Foundation…First Interstate Banc…Montana Community Fou…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…The Arthur M Blank Fa…Park County Community…The Kendeda FundTown Pump Charitable …Treacy FoundationThe High Stakes Found…Glassybaby FoundationThe McNeely Foundation
Solid Rock Foundation Co Rosamond StantonMT26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Solid Rock Foundation Co Rosamond Stanton · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Park County Community Foundation · The Kendeda Fund · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Treacy Foundation · The High Stakes Foundation · Glassybaby Foundation · The McNeely Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Charlotte & Edward K Wheeler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charlotte & Edward K Wheeler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Palm Beach Day Academy Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 110 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home