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.

Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm Foundation

Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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

Grants FY2023

States reached

$5k

Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

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

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

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.

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

02FY2023 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$238

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ACCESS ACADEMIES	$5,000
BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE	$5,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS	$1,000
GATEWAY TO HOPE	$500
FOLDS OF HONOR MICHIGAN	$500
JESUIT CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PROVINCE	$500
FOREST PARK FOREVER	$300
OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION	$250
ST CLEMENT OF ROME	$250
ST LOUIS ARC	$250
ST LOUIS OVARIAN CANCER AWARENESS	$250
QUEEN OF THE HOLY ROSARY	$250
ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL	$250
GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION	$238
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN	$200

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$109k · 57 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2023, 38 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$109k

$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+21%

Still filing today

56%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther

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

HI
HOPE IGNITES
3× · 2022–2024 · $18k · revenue +19%
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ACCESS ACADEMIES
2× · 2019–2023 · $10k · revenue +7%
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THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS
7× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +68%

Funded once

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TIGER SCHOLARSHIP FUND
one grant, 2020 · $3k
MT
MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUISgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +52%
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Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2018 · $1k

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.

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

St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health

Mid-America Transplant Services

To save lives through excellence in organ and tissue donation.

Health

University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion

St Luke's Health Foundation of Sioux City Iowa

To enhance the quality of life for the people of the siouxland region by obtaining funds in support of the health-care mission of st. luke's health system.

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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Donate Life Foundation

To improve the quality of life for people affected by organ and tissue donation and transplantation. to transform our community by eliminating the waiting list for organ and tissue transplants.

Health

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

Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health

Institute for Systems Biology

Non-profit research institute to advance a systems (or holistic and cross-disciplinary) approach to science; personalized medicine; global health & environmental sustainability; science education; & the pioneering & invention of biological…

Science & Tech

MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery; the most unlike its peers is Shriners Hospital for Children. 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

69 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. 69 of the 134 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

69/69

Grantees still filing

56/69

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$288,975Other$76,844Human Services$23,366Education$13,600Health$8,870Environment$4,400Arts & Culture$4,365

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 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home