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Keith and Deborah Wandell Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Keith and Deborah Wandell Charitable 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.

$476k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$445k
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$3.3MArts & Culture$50kPhilanthropy$42kReligion$16kHealth$4kYouth Development$600Animals$300Recreation & Sports$300Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
  • $250k+1 grant · $445k
$10,450
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OHIO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$445,156
Bluffton United Methodist Church$15,000
Community Foundation of the Low Country$10,450
Colleton River Community Foundation$5,000
New Albany Presbyterian church$500
PLAY FOR PINK INC$125
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

area typical 11%WOMEN'S SUPPORT CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC: $250 → 17%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 6 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$3.3M
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.8M · revenue +36%
  • The Ohio University Foundation
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +23%
  • PF
    PLAY FOR PINK INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $2k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • HM
    HISTORIC MITCHELVILLE FREEDOM PARK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +122%
  • AA
    ALS Association of Central & Southern Ohio
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $600 · revenue -4%
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
Montgomery County Community Foundation

The mission of the Montgomery County Community Foundation (MCCF) is to provide leadership in Montgomery County by directing sustainable financial resources that strengthen our community and improve the quality of life for current and…

Philanthropy
2
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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3
Cornerstone Credit Union Foundation

Empowering credit unions to impact their communities. the foundation is dedicated to helping credit unions make a difference in the lives of the members and communities they serve.

Education
4
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
5
Maryland Black Caucus Foundati

To educate the community on the adverse conditions under which they are living and propose various methods of alleviating conditions by conducting public forums and publishing studies.

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6
Foundation for Women's Cancer

To support and empower all affected by gynecologic cancers through education, research, and public awareness.

Health
7
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
8
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
9
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
10
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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11
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
12
CureCervicalCancer

Dedicated to the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer around the globe for the women who need it most.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Debs Dogs. 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

15 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. 15 of the 21 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,794,257 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONThe Ohio University Foundation: $1,458,227 · EducationThe Ohio University Foundation+1 more: $500 · EducationHISTORIC MITCHELVILLE FREEDOM PARK INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $32,700 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $4,200 · Philanthropy+1 more: $200 · PhilanthropyBluffton Utd Methodist Church: $15,000 · OtherColleton River Community Foundation: $5,000 · OtherALS Association of Central & Southern Ohio: $1,000 · Other+8 more: $2,200 · OtherPLAY FOR PINK INC: $2,445 · Crime & LegalWOMENS SUPPORT CENTERS OF MILWAUKEE INC: $250 · Human ServicesBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $200 · Health
Education$3,252,984Arts & Culture$50,000Philanthropy$37,100Other$23,200Crime & Legal$2,445Human Services$250Health$200

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 budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,794,257 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation: $1,458,227 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHISTORIC MITCHELVILLE FREEDOM PARK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $32,700 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $4,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $2,445 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS SUPPORT CENTERS OF MILWAUKEE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEQUON-THIENSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEBS DOGS: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Keith and Deborah Wandell Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Keith and Deborah Wandell Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 21 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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