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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.

$31k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$680kInternational$536kCrime & Legal$481kArts & Culture$460kReligion$186kEnvironment$151kHuman Services$142kCommunity Improvement$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YALE UNIVERSITY$10,000
ECO-SOAP BANK$5,000
THORN$5,000
WOMEN'S STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS$5,000
TOOLS & TIARAS INC$1,023
THE WOMEN'S HOME$1,000
BLINKNOW FOUNDATION$1,000
BAPTIST WOMEN IN MINISTRY$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
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $20k → 16%BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $78k → 4%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $15k → 16%BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $71k → 4%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $15k → 16%BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $65k → 4%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $15k → 16%BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $55k → 4%The Women's Home: $10k → 16%BlinkNow Foundation: $35k → 4%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $1k → 16%BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $1k → 4%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $1k → 16%THORN: $100k → 14%WOMEN'S ENEWS: $1k → 17%Womens Storybook Project of Texas: $20k → 10%THORN: $100k → 14%WOMEN'S ENEWS: $1k → 17%WOMEN'S STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS: $10k → 10%BEAR - BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KID: $45k → 16%Thorn: $30k → 14%WOMEN'S ENEWS: $1k → 17%WOMEN'S STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS: $8k → 10%THORN: $5k → 14%WOMEN'S STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS: $5k → 10%BEAR - BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KID: $33k → 16%WOMEN'S ENEWS: $1k → 17%WOMEN'S STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS: $1k → 10%PARTNERS FOR HARRIS COUNTY CHILDREN: $1k → 16%Womens eNews Inc: $1k → 17%BEAR-Partners for Harris County Chi: $10k → 16%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
AR
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 43 repeat orgs$468k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
38

Total granted

$2.6M
$467k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+14%

Still filing today

72%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $668 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • BF
    BLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT
    6× · 2018–2024 · $304k · revenue +145%
  • T
    THORN
    4× · 2018–2024 · $235k · revenue +107%
  • BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2018–2022 · $228k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • SH
    SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue +172%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • PA
    PROJECT AKILAH INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -92%
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
The Conversationalist
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2
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
3
World Pulse Voices

World Pulse is a global social impact network connecting women from 227 countries to accelerate social change. We provide a safe and supportive online space where women can speak for themselves, make powerful connections, and access the…

Human Services
4
Women Action & the Media Corp

Gender equity in media access, representation, employment and ownership and a world in which a just media is considered essential to a just society. women, action & the media (wam) connects and supports media makers, activists, academics…

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5
Womens Foreign Policy Group Inc

Founded in 1995 wfpg works to expand the foreign policy dialogue across policital divides and generations and to support women at every stake of their careers. as champions of womens leadership we are proud of our role in expanding the…

International
6
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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7
Women in Product

Our mission is to equip women and non-binary folks to thrive in product management careers at all levels. we want all people to have equitable opportunities to build rewarding careers and shape the products of the future.

Human Services
8
American Association of University Women Inc

Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.

Education
9
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
10
The Womens Media Center Inc

The Womens Media Center works to make women visible and powerful in media. The Womens Media Center trains women leaders to be in the media; promotes women experts to the media through WMC SheSource; conducts groundbreaking research and…

Arts & Culture
11
Fuller Project for International Reporting Inc

The fuller project is the global newsroom dedicated to groundbreaking reporting that catalyzes positive change for women.

International
12
Ripple Effect Images

Ripple effect images' mission is to raise awareness and funding by harnessing the power of visual storytelling to help scale solutions for women and children globally.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 85 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
31/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT: $304,362 · Human ServicesBLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NO…THORN: $235,000 · Human ServicesTHORNBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $88,882 · Human ServicesBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS …THE WOMEN'S HOME: $77,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S HOMEWOMENS STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS: $43,500 · Human ServicesWOMENS STORYBOOK PROJECT OF…+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesAKILAH FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherAKILAH FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYALE DIVINITY SCHOOL: $65,100 · OtherYALE DIVINITY SCHOOLSojourners Inc: $65,000 · OtherSojourners IncTEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE: $59,346 · OtherTEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL J…Baptist Women In Ministry Inc: $59,250 · OtherBaptist Women In Ministry IncIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYALE UNIVERSITY: $46,488 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYYALE UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · OtherSalt Lake City Film Center Artists: $30,000 · OtherPew Research Center: $47,376 · OtherPew Research CenterJustice Revival Inc: $30,000 · Other+39 more: $153,027 · Other+39 moreBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $227,886 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITYSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $150,000 · EducationSHINING HOPE FOR CO…AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $75,000 · EducationAUBURN THEOLOGICAL …RAZIAS RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $67,000 · EducationRAZIAS RAY OF HOPE …+2 more: $5,236 · EducationECO-SOAP BANK: $150,000 · HealthECO-SOAP B…GLOBALBIKE INC: $100,000 · HealthGLOBALBIKE…Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $10,000 · HealthMedicine for Humanity: $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $8,123 · HealthUTAH FILM CENTER: $110,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM …Houston Public Media Foundation: $50,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Pu…WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE…RAGTAG FILM SOCIETY: $25,000 · Arts & CultureRAGTAG FIL…Sundance Institute: $22,200 · Arts & CultureSundance I…THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY: $21,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHRIST…+3 more: $8,500 · Arts & CultureTEXAS CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND EQUITY: $160,234 · PhilanthropyPROJECT AKILAH INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyHOUSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,005 · PhilanthropyRURAL HEALTH COLLABORATIVE: $115,000 · InternationalPOLARIS PROJECT: $25,000 · InternationalBRIDGE2RWANDA INC: $20,000 · International
Human Services$753,744Other$830,587Education$525,122Health$288,123Arts & Culture$271,700Philanthropy$225,239International$160,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT: $304,362 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetTHORN: $235,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $227,886 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND EQUITY: $160,234 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetECO-SOAP BANK: $150,000 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetRURAL HEALTH COLLABORATIVE: $115,000 over 5y, 58% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $110,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGLOBALBIKE INC: $100,000 over 5y, 32% of budgetBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $88,882 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $77,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $75,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetRAZIAS RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $67,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetSojourners Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBaptist Women In Ministry Inc: $59,250 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetHouston Public Media Foundation: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT AKILAH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPew Research Center: $47,376 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS: $43,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJustice Revival Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetJANE'S DUE PROCESS INC: $26,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetRAGTAG FILM SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPOLARIS PROJECT: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSundance Institute: $22,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHRISTIAN CENTURY: $21,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGE2RWANDA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMapLight: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT: $11,115 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTOOLS & TIARAS INC: $11,023 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetHOUSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedicine for Humanity: $10,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBODY BALANCE FOUNDATION: $8,123 over 2y, 36% of budgetBeyond the 11th Inc: $5,005 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPASSPORT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROOTEDGOOD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGirls Embracing Mothers Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWOMEN'S E-NEWS: $5,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S ALLIANCE FOR THEOLOGY ETHICS AND RITUAL INC: $3,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,089 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION: $1,080 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYBER CIVIL RIGHTS INITIATIVE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 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 Houston Public Media Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT AKILAH INC ↗
  • 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 RAGTAG FILM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast 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.

Tides FoundationLilly Endowment IncJohn D and Catherine …The Ford FoundationShell USA Company Fou…The Chicago Community…Silicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …
Tides FoundationCA14.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Grant Me the Wisdom Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grant Me the Wisdom Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%4%15%34%60%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
    7get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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.
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    How do I get to Grant Me the Wisdom Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Grant Me the Wisdom Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 85 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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