· Private foundation
James M & Ruth E Wilder 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of JAMES M & RUTH E WILDER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| OASIS | $3,000 |
| TENDER LOVING CARE ANIMAL SHELTER CO DAHLONEGA-LUMPKIN CO HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| MOSTLY MUTTS ANIMAL RESCUE & ADOPTION INC | $2,000 |
| SOUTHERN HOPE HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $2,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA | $2,000 |
| THE TEMPLE | $2,000 |
| ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC | $2,000 |
| FURKIDS INC THRIFT STORE | $2,000 |
| ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION HCSR | $2,000 |
| PAWS 4 LIFE | $2,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY PANTRY INC | $2,000 |
| GOOD MEWS ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| CHEROKEE COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GMGOOD MEWS ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +118%
- CCCALVARY CHILDREN'S HOME6× · 2017–2022 · $29k · revenue +253%
- CPCOMMUNITY PANTRY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- ASATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAone grant, 2021 · $35k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +46%
- AHATLANTA HUMANE SOCIETY HOWELLone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Prevention of animal cruelty.
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
The charitable mission of Remedy Pet Care ("Remedy") is to make high-quality, compassionate veterinary care accessible and affordable for all pets by providing care at cost. Remedy exists to keep pets in their homes by removing financial…
The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.
All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.
Community Animal Treatment Center (CATC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to delivering high-quality, high-volume spay and neuter (HQHVSN) services for community cats and pets, with a focus on supporting low-income…
The mission of the Atlanta Humane Society is to improve animal welfare in the southeastern United States by providing quality animal services including preventative initiatives, education, advocacy and adoption of animals into permanent…
Animal rescue organization rescue homeless animals, provide them with the best medical care and nurturing environment while working to find them a forever home.
Dedicated to alleviating the pet over-population problems in georgia. house and place homeless dogs and cats into loving homes, offer access to low-cost vaccines, spay & neuter procedures, promote humane education and responsible pet…
Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.
Matching furry friends with their purr-fect homes & offering affordable spay/neuter.
The Humane Society of Tampa Bay is dedicated to ending animal homelessness and providing care and comfort for companion animals in need. Our vision is "Leading the way because every life counts". In 2025, we saved 10,631 animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is New York Shakespeare Festival. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 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 15% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 48 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 GOOD MEWS ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALVARY CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Mostly Mutts Animal Rescue and Adoption Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Homeless Pets Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OKALOOSA AIDS SUPPORT AND INFORMATIONAL SERVICES INC- OASIS ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Community Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Anna L Haas Humane Society of Cobb County ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RABUN COUNTY FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES SMITHGALL HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Christian City Inc ↗
- Who funds TAG TREATMENT ACTION GROUP INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 James M & Ruth E Wilder 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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