· Private foundation
E F Wildermuth Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- Under $10k13 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $158k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILDERMUTH CHURCH | $30,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $29,856 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $29,856 |
| CASA | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY OF THE HOLY ROSARY | $18,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $10,000 |
| MIDWEST ATHLETES AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER INC (MACC FUND) | $10,000 |
| CUNNINGHAM CHILDREN'S HOME | $10,000 |
| BALLET METROPOLITAN | $8,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL OHIO | $5,000 |
| FIRST TEE OF CENTRAL OHIO | $5,000 |
| PREVENT BLINDNESS OHIO | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| OHIOANA LIBRARY | $3,500 |
| FOAR FROM HOME | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- BMBALLET METROPOLITAN INC7× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue +43%
- CCCUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL6× · 2019–2024 · $49k · revenue +68%
- TCThe Childrens Hospital2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- TCTHE COLUMBUS ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +20%
- BGBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF INDIANAone grant, 2018 · $10k
- OCOHIOHEALTH CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $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.
To provide educational and therapeutic services, at a professional level, for infants, toddlers and preschool children up to 12 years and their families through supporting the family unit and working with each child to develop his or her…
Children's services
Our mission is to provide a nurturing and challenging montessori preschool environment for children ages 18 months to 6 years old in which children explore the world and their place in it through hands-on learning experiences and positive…
Center city public charter schools (center city pcs) empowers our students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout washington, d.c.
The organization empowers familities and improves children's lives through comprehensive early intervention services, education, and therapeutic services. the organization primarily offers services to children from birth to three years…
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
Child care connection provides the tools and education to give each child the very best start in life.
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
The mission of the Blind Children's Center, Inc. is to prepare infants, toddlers and preschoolers of all abilities to thrive through inclusive, family-focused early childhood education, with a specialized focus on children who are blind or…
To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care and education through integrated support and equitable practices.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To provide legal services to indigent children in contested custody/ visitation and related cases.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Penfield Children's Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lakeshore Paws Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 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. 19 of the 45 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 BALLET METROPOLITAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST ATHLETES AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Hospital ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAI ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds George & Raymond Frank Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPINA BIFIDA ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LEAD TO READ INC ↗
- Who funds Prevent Blindness Wisconsin ↗
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: Anon Charitable Trust · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Columbus Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Hauske Family Foundation Inc · Nicholas Family Foundation Trust · The Sherman Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund
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 E F Wildermuth 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.
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