· Private foundation
Lenore Cletcher-Wessale Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A PETTRY CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $11,500 |
| R VANAUSDOLL CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $5,750 |
| J KIBLER CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $5,750 |
| J FORD CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $5,750 |
| S MOSS CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $5,750 |
| M PHILLIPS CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $5,750 |
| M BOYER CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $5,750 |
| E POWELL CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $5,750 |
| J MOONEY CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $5,750 |
| M STAHLER CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $5,750 |
| R BOYER CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $5,500 |
| E KNOFSKY CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $2,800 |
| S KREMITZKI CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $2,800 |
| K CLODFELDER CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $2,800 |
| B STAHLER CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $2,800 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +5% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
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
- IWILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY5× · 2019–2023 · $22k · revenue +5%
- ACAUGUSTANA COLLEGE2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +27%
- MUMidwestern University2× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-URBANA CHAMPAIGNone grant, 2024 · $17k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $4k
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.
Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Institution of higher education
A four-year liberal arts university affiliated with the evangelical lutheran church.
Lake Forest College is a National Residential Liberal Arts College, accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
Morningside university is a 4 year private university, that provides a liberal arts education to full and part-time students, including co-curricular activities (residence halls, dining, bookstore).
Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…
Linfield university is an undergraduate and graduate university recognized for its strong teaching faculty, outstanding science programs and distinctive international emphasis.
Limestone university is a four-year, liberal arts institution in gaffney, sc. established in 1845, limestone offers masters, bachelor and associate degrees through traditional and non-traditional educational opportunities.
A residential, coeducation, undergraduate liberal arts college.
To provide an exceptional undergraduate liberal arts education.
Liberal arts christian university for all who seek to develop their full potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Wesleyan University and the most unlike its peers is Lakeview College of Nursing. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
7 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. 7 of the 46 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Lenore Cletcher-Wessale Trust 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.