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Edward J Wagner Family Charitible Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$54k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$131kHuman Services$19kEducation$13kYouth Development$12kHealth$9kCivil Rights$7kFood & Nutrition$4kInternational$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST ALBERT THE GREAT$30,000
CATHOLIC SERVICE APPEAL$15,000
UNBOUND$6,000
LITTLE WAY PREGNANCY CTR$2,873
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%LITTLE WAY PREGNANCY CTR: $3k → 15%LITTLE WAY PREGNANCY RESOURCE CNTR: $2k → 15%LITTLE WAY PREGNANCY RESOURCE CNTR: $65 → 15%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$182k · 20 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
1

Total granted

$182k
$20k

Still filing today

35%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • LW
    LITTLE WAY PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +46%
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +11%
  • FU
    FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $4k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • SA
    ST ALBERT THE GREAT SCHOOL
    4× · 2019–2022 · $20k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST ALBERT THE GREAT: $66,750 · OtherST ALBERT THE GREATCATHOLIC SERVICE APPEAL: $36,737 · OtherCATHOLIC SERVICE APPEALST ALBERT THE GREAT SCHOOL: $20,020 · OtherST ALBERT THE GREAT SCHOOLUNBOUND: $12,341 · OtherUNBOUND+12 more: $42,580 · Other+12 moreLITTLE WAY PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $5,408 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC: $5,151 · Housing & ShelterFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $4,280 · EducationCatholics for Children: $4,280 · Civil RightsGUEST HOUSE INC: $4,280 · Health
Other$178,428Human Services$5,408Housing & Shelter$5,151Education$4,280Civil Rights$4,280Health$4,280

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLITTLE WAY PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $5,408 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC: $5,151 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $4,280 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCatholics for Children: $4,280 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGUEST HOUSE INC: $4,280 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEALING PLACE INC: $4,280 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN CENTER INC: $2,563 over 2y, 0.1% 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 LITTLE WAY PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
  • Who funds Catholics for Children ↗
  • Who funds GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN CENTER 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.

The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository IncKY19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Barbara and Albert Horton Foundation Inc · Morris Family Foundation · Nicklies Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Edward J Wagner Family Charitible Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward J Wagner Family Charitible Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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