· Private foundation
John & Susan Wilder Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $204k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $150,000 |
| CORNERSTONE CHURCH | $54,307 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,300 |
| HIGH SOARING EAGLE CENTER INC | $10,300 |
| UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC | $10,000 |
| KIDS ACROSS AMERICA | $8,000 |
| GLOSTER BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| TEXAS RESOURCES FOUNDATION | $2,060 |
| WORLD VISION | $780 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 6 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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HPHIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M
- CCCORNERSTONE CHURCH7× · 2019–2025 · $174k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY7× · 2017–2025 · $80k
Funded once
- LCLIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +165%
- CFCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $23k
- TRTEAM RUBICON INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +10%
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.
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
To sponsor and conduct educational conferences, seminars, workshops and symposia for purposes of informing members and other interested parties on current research, legislation and practices in all phases of employee reward programs…
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
Provide quality education for students from pre school through middle school using the Montessori method of learning and teaching.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds High Soaring Eagle Center Inc ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
- Who funds TD CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds LSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John & Susan Wilder Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Susan Wilder Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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