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Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm 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.

$16k
Granted FY2023
28
Grants FY2023
28
Organizations funded FY2023
32%
First-time grantees FY2023
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94% of Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $16k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

21
’17
24
’18
21
’19
26
’20
33
’21
24
’22
18
’23
11
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2023
$238
Largest grant, FY2023
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
28 to 45
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
6
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202328$16k32%
FY202236$18k31%
FY202145$16k31%
FY202039$17k44%
FY201932$19k59%
FY201840$15k55%
FY201734$15kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$293kHealth$25kEducation$23kYouth Development$20kReligion$13kHuman Services$11kArts & Culture$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hope Ignites$18,08630%
Access Academies$10,00020%
St Louis University High School$6,1655n/a
The Backstoppers Inc Fka Policemen & Firemen Fund of St Louis$5,37570%
Variety the Childrens Charity of St Louis$4,50050%
Cardinal Glennon Children's Foundation$3,20050%
Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees$3,10060%
United Way of Greater St Louis Inc$3,00040%
Gateway to Hope$3,00070%
Municipal Theatre Association of St Louis$2,50010%
St Louis Crisis Nursery$2,00020%
Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation$2,00040%
St Louis Arc Inc$1,83080%
Marian Middle School$1,75050%
Folds of Honor Michigan Inc$1,75040%
St Louis Ovarian Cancer Awareness$1,75040%
The Magic House$1,50030%
Gateway Arch Park Foundation$1,48870%
Forest Park Forever Inc$1,30070%
St Patrick Center$1,25030%
Duo Dogs Inc$1,00020%
All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc$1,00010%
Guadalupe Centers Inc$1,00020%
Visitation Academy of St Louis County$1,0001n/a
The Buddy Foundation$90020%
Arthritis Foundation$7502n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc$65050%
The Haven of Grace$60030%
Pathways to Independence$50020%
Berra Family Charitable Foundation$50010%
Equal Justice Initiative$50010%
Chesterfield Presbyterian Church$5002n/a
Our Little Haven$45030%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$35020%
Salvation Army$3363n/a
Shriners Hospital for Children$30026%
This Able Veteran$25010%
Operation Food Search Inc$25010%
Father Bobs Outreach$2501n/a
Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression$25010%
Pedal the Cause$25010%
Pathways to Independence$25010%
Louisiana Veterans Museum Foundation$25011%
Project Peanut Butter$25010%
NAMI St Louis$22020%
Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation$20020%
Uspiritus Inc (Bellewood & Brooklawn)$20020%
Larche St Louis$20020%
Great Lakes Coalition$1404n/a
Missouri Historical Society$11510%
Gary Sinise Foundation$10010%
St Louis Wind Symphony$1001n/a
American Brain Tumor Association$10010%
Main Stay Therapeutic Farm Inc$10010%
Together for Haiti$10010%
Trinity United Methodist Church$1001n/a
Coburn Place Safehaven II Inc$10010%
First Reformed Church$1001n/a
American Heart Association Inc$10010%
Covenant House Missouri$10010%
Catholic Bishop of Northern Alaska$1001n/a
St Cecilia Catholic Church$1001n/a
Friends of St Louis University Liver Center$10010%
H O P E America Inc$10010%
American Diabetes Association$10010%
Northern Illinois Food Bank$10010%
Atlanta Lab rescue Inc$10010%
Abiding Savior Lutheran Church$1001n/a
Dogs For Our Brave Inc$10010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$10010%
The Covering House$10010%
Charles W Gamm III Memorial Scholarship Fund$1001n/a
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$10010%
Wreaths Across America$10010%
The Little Bit Foundation$10010%
Palozola Foundation$10010%
The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc$10010%
The V Foundation$10010%
Hospice of Southern Illinois Inc$10010%
Judicial Watch Inc$7020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($42k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHope Ignites: $18,086 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAccess Academies: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Backstoppers Inc Fka Policemen & Firemen Fund of St Louis: $5,375 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVariety the Childrens Charity of St Louis: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCardinal Glennon Children's Foundation: $3,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMissouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees: $3,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater St Louis Inc: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGateway to Hope: $3,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMunicipal Theatre Association of St Louis: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis Crisis Nursery: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOsteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Louis Arc Inc: $1,830 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMarian Middle School: $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFolds of Honor Michigan Inc: $1,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSt Louis Ovarian Cancer Awareness: $1,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Magic House: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGateway Arch Park Foundation: $1,488 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $1,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSt Patrick Center: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDuo Dogs Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAll Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuadalupe Centers Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Buddy Foundation: $900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Haven of Grace: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPathways to Independence: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBerra Family Charitable Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOur Little Haven: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospital for Children: $300 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetThis Able Veteran: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Food Search Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPedal the Cause: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPathways to Independence: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLouisiana Veterans Museum Foundation: $250 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetProject Peanut Butter: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI St Louis: $220 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlexs Lemonade Stand Foundation: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUspiritus Inc (Bellewood & Brooklawn): $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLarche St Louis: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMissouri Historical Society: $115 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Brain Tumor Association: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMain Stay Therapeutic Farm Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTogether for Haiti: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoburn Place Safehaven II Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 66.

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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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO43.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Tsf · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc

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.

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About Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm Foundation

How much does Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm Foundation give?
Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $16,038 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (70%), Health (6%), Education (6%).
Who are Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hope Ignites ($18k), Access Academies ($10k), St Louis University High School ($6k).
Does Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, World Wide Technology Foundation, Moneta Group Charitable Foundation.
Where is Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm Foundation based?
Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm Foundation is based in FL.

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 134 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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