· Private foundation
Philip J Wilhelm Foundation Inc
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k9 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
- $250k+1 grant · $259k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $259,352 |
| LUMEN CHRISTI | $62,202 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF INDIANAPOLIS | $42,674 |
| LUMEN CHRISTI | $19,759 |
| INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF INDIANA | $12,447 |
| HEARTS & HANDS OF INDIANA CORPORATION | $10,669 |
| OUR LADY OF GREENWOOD CATHOLIC CHURCH & SCHOOL | $7,112 |
| OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $7,112 |
| INDIANA PLAN FOR EQUAL EMPLOYMENT INC | $6,757 |
| DAMAR FOUNDATION | $4,765 |
| HOPE ACADEMY | $3,556 |
| PROGRESS HOUSE | $3,556 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,067 |
| WHEELER MISSION | $711 |
| CHILDREN'S ORGAN TRANSPLANT ASSOCIATION | $356 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Optimist International Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lumen Christi. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 14 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.
- Who funds LUMEN CHRISTI ↗
- Who funds Independent Colleges of Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds HEARTS & HANDS OF INDIANA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE INDIANA PLAN FOR EQUAL EMPLOYMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Damar Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Progress House ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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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 Philip J Wilhelm Foundation Inc 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.
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