· Private foundation
Lenore Cletcher-Wessale Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $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 |
| S MOSS CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $5,750 |
| M PHILLIPS CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $5,750 |
| J MOONEY 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 |
| M BOYER CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $5,750 |
| E POWELL 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 |
| S KREMITZKI CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $2,800 |
| B STAHLER CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $2,800 |
| E KNOFSKY CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $2,800 |
| K CLODFELDER CO LENORE CLETCHER-WESSALE TRUST | $2,800 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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.
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
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 46 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lenore Cletcher-Wessale Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lenore Cletcher-Wessale Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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