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Lisa Wendel Memorial Foundation at a glance

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Lisa Wendel Memorial 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$4.7MArts & Culture$231kEducation$216kInternational$152kRecreation & Sports$74kYouth Development$57kAnimals$35kEnvironment$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $121k
  • $250k+2 grants · $950k
$2,500
Median grant
16
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$600,065
EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION$350,000
COLLEGE OF THE DESERT$71,079
EYE CARE 4 KIDS$50,000
WOODLAND STRIDES$25,000
MCCALLUM THEATER$16,776
INDIO YOUTH SPORTS$16,000
HAITI CHILDREN$15,000
KLINE VETERANS FUND$12,667
THE SMITH CENTER$10,000
NEW HORIZONS ACADEMY$6,295
AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,280
ESSELSTYN FOUNDATION$3,500
UNITED HATZALAH$3,369
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 (FY17–21, $15k) 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.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%BANGOR YMCA: $3k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%MERIT AMERICA: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 53 repeat orgs$577k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
86

Total granted

$5.1M
$563k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+64%

Still filing today

51%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    3× · 2022–2024 · $605k · revenue +24%
  • WS
    WOODLAND STRIDES
    6× · 2019–2024 · $130k · revenue +566% · 65% of their budget
  • TS
    The Smith Center for the Performing Arts
    7× · 2018–2024 · $68k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC NEONATOLOGY FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $375k
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERISTY OF CA
    one grant, 2023 · $38k
  • MM
    MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue +59%
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
Carson Tahoe Regional Healthcare

To enhance the health and well-being of the communities we serve.

Health
2
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
3
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
4
Inova Health System Foundation

Inova health system foundation is the parent of inova health system (ihs). ihs provides healthcare and related services throughout northern virginia and the greater metropolitan washington, d.c. area, including certain contiguous counties…

Health
5
Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
6
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
7
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
8
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
9
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
10
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
11
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
12
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Joint Commission evaluates and accredits health care organizations and programs across the United States to ensure compliance with rigorous standards of quality and safety, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Woodland Strides. 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

72 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. 72 of the 155 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/72
Grantees still filing
54/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $3,180,690 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONCLEVELAND CLINIC NEONATOLOGY FUND: $375,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC NEONATOLOGY FUNDEYE CARE 4 KIDS: $217,500 · Other+118 more: $834,855 · Other+118 moreEisenhower Medical Center: $605,000 · HealthEisenhower Medica…WOODLAND STRIDES: $130,000 · HealthWOODLAND STRIDESKIDS AND HORSES INC: $58,400 · HealthKIDS AND HORSES I…Physicians Committee for Responsible Med: $43,600 · Health+12 more: $33,415 · HealthThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts: $68,050 · Arts & CultureTHE LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC: $9,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $8,494 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $5,593 · Arts & CultureGODS LITTLE ACRES INC: $57,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $125 · Recreation & SportsAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $17,000 · InternationalHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $13,500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $5,150 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $2,049 · International+1 more: $900 · InternationalECOLIFE CONSERVATION: $33,075 · EnvironmentMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $18,400 · AnimalsPet Network Humane Society: $1,380 · Animals+2 more: $395 · Animals
Other$4,608,045Health$870,415Arts & Culture$91,637Recreation & Sports$57,125International$38,599Environment$33,075Animals$20,175

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $605,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOODLAND STRIDES: $130,000 over 6y, 65% of budgetThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts: $68,050 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS AND HORSES INC: $58,400 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetGODS LITTLE ACRES INC: $57,000 over 7y, 23% of budgetMELISSA'S HOUSE: $44,775 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med: $43,600 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetECOLIFE CONSERVATION: $33,075 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $18,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $17,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDWARD KLINE MEM HOMELESS VETERANS FUND INC: $15,724 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUDDY PROGRAM INC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRenown Health Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMERIT AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC: $9,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $8,494 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rumson Country Day School: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HORIZONS CENTER FOR LEARNING INC: $6,295 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $5,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNutritionfactsorg Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL INVESTMENT FOUNDATION FOR TOMORROW INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJAZZ OUTREACH INITIATIVE: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Plantrician Project: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $2,049 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $1,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL: $1,843 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAssistance League Coachella Valley: $1,780 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPet Network Humane Society: $1,380 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $1,020 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $900 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds WOODLAND STRIDES ↗
  • Who funds The Smith Center for the Performing Arts ↗
  • Who funds KIDS AND HORSES INC ↗
  • Who funds GODS LITTLE ACRES INC ↗
  • Who funds MELISSA'S HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Physicians Committee for Responsible Med ↗
  • Who funds ECOLIFE CONSERVATION ↗
  • Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EDWARD KLINE MEM HOMELESS VETERANS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Renown Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MERIT AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds The Rumson Country Day School ↗

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.

Wynn Resorts Foundati…NV Energy Charitable …United Way of Souther…Nevada Community Foun…Mgm Resorts FoundationTahoe Community Found…Bny Mellon Charitable…Vegas Golden Knights …Engelstad Family Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Susan G Fine Family F…Offerdahl Family Foun…
Wynn Resorts FoundationNV21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wynn Resorts Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Engelstad Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Susan G Fine Family Foundation · Offerdahl Family 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 Lisa Wendel Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lisa Wendel Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Lisa Wendel Memorial Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lisa Wendel Memorial Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 155 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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