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Grant Me the Wisdom 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| THORN | $5,000 |
| ECO-SOAP BANK | $5,000 |
| WOMEN'S STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS | $5,000 |
| TOOLS & TIARAS INC | $1,023 |
| BLINKNOW FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BAPTIST WOMEN IN MINISTRY | $1,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S HOME | $1,000 |
| PARTNERS FOR HARRIS COUNTY CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $600 |
| THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY | $500 |
| YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL | $100 |
| MS SOCIETY | $53 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15 |
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 (FY18–24, $754k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
43 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $668 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
- BFBLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT6× · 2018–2024 · $304k · revenue +145%
- TTHORN4× · 2018–2024 · $235k · revenue +107%
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY4× · 2018–2022 · $228k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- SHSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue +172%
- PAPROJECT AKILAH INCone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -92%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
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Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. 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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 85 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 BLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT ↗
- Who funds THORN ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND EQUITY ↗
- Who funds SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ECO-SOAP BANK ↗
- Who funds RURAL HEALTH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds GLOBALBIKE INC ↗
- Who funds BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds RAZIAS RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sojourners Inc ↗
- Who funds Baptist Women In Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT AKILAH INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Public Media Foundation ↗
- Who funds Pew Research Center ↗
- Who funds WOMENS STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds Justice Revival Inc ↗
- Who funds JANE'S DUE PROCESS INC ↗
- Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RAGTAG FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE2RWANDA INC ↗
- Who funds MapLight ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TOOLS & TIARAS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
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: Tides Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Grant Me the Wisdom 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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