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Irene S Wischer Education Foundation #FA945 at a glance

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Irene S Wischer Education Foundation #FA945

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$513k
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.4MReligion$67kScience & Tech$20k
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
H FOLTZ$20,000
L MEMA$13,124
P GARCIA$10,000
E ROTH$10,000
K ROBERTS$10,000
M TRAN$10,000
S GONZALES$10,000
K RODRIGUEZ$10,000
M SMITH$10,000
W BOLTON$10,000
S GARCIA$10,000
S KILLAM$10,000
E GASPAR$10,000
E AMADOR$10,000
R GUNDRUM$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY: $18k → 11%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $25k → 16%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 10%TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY: $52k → 13%ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 13%BLINN COLLEGE: $16k → 14%DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25k → 14%VICTORIA COLLEGE: $15k → 16%MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 16%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $39k → 16%ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $29k → 16%ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 22%STEPHEN F AUSTIN UNIVERSITY: $21k → 23%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY- MAIN CAMPUS: $12k → 19%GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY: $12k → 11%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 10%TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS: $20k → 14%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $37k → 16%ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $30k → 22%STEPHEN F AUSTIN UNIVERSITY: $21k → 23%GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY: $12k → 11%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 10%TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $13k → 11%TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 13%DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $17k → 14%LeTourneau University: $24k → 16%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $29k → 16%L MEMA: $13k → 22%TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $13k → 11%Tarleton State University: $12k → 13%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $27k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $42k → 16%ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $37k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $32k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $23k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $22k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $18k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO: $26k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO: $23k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $13k → 16%DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $70k → 14%DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $31k → 14%DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $30k → 14%DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $26k → 14%DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $21k → 14%DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%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
MA
IN
PA
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
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.
$3.7M · 89 repeat orgs$672k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

89 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 62 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
47

Total granted

$3.7M
$429k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+13%

Still filing today

28%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • DB
    DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $208k · revenue +39%
  • BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $147k · revenue +57%
  • DT
    Dallas Theological Seminary
    3× · 2017–2019 · $54k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +6%
  • UO
    University of Dallas
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +8%
  • VC
    VICTORIA COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
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
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
4
Howard Payne University

Howard payne university is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Taylor University

The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.

Education
7
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
8
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
9
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

—
10
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
11
Whitworth University

Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.

Education
12
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Baptist University; the most unlike its peers is Southwestern Oklahoma State University. 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

40 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. 40 of the 161 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
34/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $697,200 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINTEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY: $368,050 · OtherTEXAS A & M UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $186,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $118,700 · Other+124 more: $2,113,874 · Other+124 moreDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $208,000 · EducationDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITYBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $146,800 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITYDallas Theological Seminary: $54,000 · EducationDallas Theological Semina…TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $52,000 · EducationLeTourneau University: $46,000 · EducationGrand Canyon University: $42,000 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · Education+25 more: $411,366 · Education+25 moreTARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $16,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,484,324Education$1,000,166Philanthropy$16,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $208,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $146,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $118,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Theological Seminary: $54,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $52,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLeTourneau University: $46,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $42,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's University: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dallas: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $15,766 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN COLLEGE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $10,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPitzer College: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LeTourneau University ↗
  • Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds St Mary's University ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗
  • Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗

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.

Tulsa Community Found…Folds of Honor Founda…The Presser FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Je and le Mabee Found…National Collegiate A…Rc Caffarelli Educati…The Robert A Welch Fo…The Buddy Bostick Fou…San Antonio Livestock…Council of Independen…American Endowment Fo…
Tulsa Community FoundationOK23.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · The Presser Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Rc Caffarelli Educational Fund Frost Bank Trustee · The Robert A Welch Foundation · The Buddy Bostick Foundation · San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc · Council of Independent Colleges · American Endowment 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 Irene S Wischer Education Foundation #FA945 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irene S Wischer Education Foundation #FA945. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report 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 161 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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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