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J L & Miyoko Wheeler Foundation Inc at a glance

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J L & Miyoko Wheeler Foundation Inc

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2019
10
Grants FY2019
3
States reached
$306k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Human Services$335kHealth$306kPhilanthropy$180kCrime & Legal$75kReligion$70kYouth Development$46kEducation$45kAnimals$16kOther$0
02FY2019 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $635k
  • $250k+1 grant · $306k
$60,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Jude Children's Research Hospita$305,683
Mayfield and Graves County Need Lin$180,000
Renaissance Charitable Foundation I$180,000
Individual grant recipient$110,000
Mayfield Graves County Child Advoca$60,000
New Pathways for Children$55,000
Murray-Calloway Co Needline Assoc I$50,000
Cuba Church of Christ$45,000
Murray State University Foundation$45,000
Chief Cornerstone Baptist Church$25,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%Murray-Calloway Co Needline Assoc I: $50k → 19%Murray-Calloway Co Needline Assoc I: $13k → 19%Murray-Calloway Co Needline Assoc I: $7k → 19%New Pathways for Children: $55k → 19%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of J L & Miyoko Wheeler Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 60% of the giving stays in KY; by stated purpose, 56%.

J L & Miyoko Wheeler Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$545k · 7 repeat orgs$476k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +249% since the first grant, against +99% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$545k
$476k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+249%
+99%

Still filing today

43%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $476k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Human ServicesHealthEducationOther
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

  • MA
    MAYFIELD AND GRAVES COUNTY NEED LINE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $210k · revenue -17% · 64% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2018–2019 · $120k
  • MG
    Mayfield Graves County Child Advoca
    3× · 2017–2019 · $75k

Funded once

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $306k · revenue +99%
  • NP
    NEW PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $55k · revenue +130%
  • MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +71%
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
05the 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 13 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYFIELD AND GRAVES COUNTY NEED LINE INC: $210,000 · OtherMAYFIELD AND GRAVES COUNTY NEED LINE INCIndividual grant recipient: $119,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMayfield Graves County Child Advoca: $74,500 · OtherMayfield Graves County Child AdvocaMAIN STREET YOUTH CENTER INC: $46,000 · OtherMAIN STREET YOUTH CENTER INCCuba Church of Christ: $45,000 · OtherCuba Church of ChristChief Cornerstone Baptist Church: $25,000 · Other+2 more: $25,000 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $305,683 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH …Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $180,000 · PhilanthropyRenaissance Char…MURRAY CALLOWAY NEED LINE ASSOCIATION INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesMURRAY CALL…NEW PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesNEW PATHWAY…MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Education
Other$545,000Health$305,683Philanthropy$180,000Human Services$125,000Education$45,000

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 budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $305,683 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYFIELD AND GRAVES COUNTY NEED LINE INC: $210,000 over 3y, 64% of budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $180,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMURRAY CALLOWAY NEED LINE ASSOCIATION INC: $70,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetNEW PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN INC: $55,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMAIN STREET YOUTH CENTER INC: $46,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetMURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization J L & Miyoko Wheeler Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J L & Miyoko Wheeler Foundation Inc. 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 J L & Miyoko Wheeler Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to J L & Miyoko Wheeler Foundation Inc 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 13 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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