Connecticut · Private foundation
R Channing Wheeler Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $45k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations R Channing Wheeler Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $45k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $8k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $59k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $89k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $89k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $94k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $68k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $68k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes With Hope | $211,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Taft School Corporation | $125,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Afghan Stray Animal League | $16,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Westport Rotary Club Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | $8,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Save the Sound | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Simply Smiles Inc | $3,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Wildlife in Crisis Inc | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Junior League of Stamford-Norwalk Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Westport Volunteer Fire Department Inc | $500 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes With Hope | $211,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Taft School Corporation | $125,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Afghan Stray Animal League | $16,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Westport Rotary Club Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | $8,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Save the Sound | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Simply Smiles Inc | $3,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Wildlife in Crisis Inc | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Junior League of Stamford-Norwalk Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Westport Volunteer Fire Department Inc | $500 | 1 | 1% |
| American Museum of Natural History | $150 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($135k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget R Channing Wheeler Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About R Channing Wheeler Family Foundation
- How much does R Channing Wheeler Family Foundation give?
- R Channing Wheeler Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $45,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does R Channing Wheeler Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Housing & Shelter (37%), Animals (3%).
- Who are R Channing Wheeler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Homes With Hope ($211k), The Taft School Corporation ($125k), The Afghan Stray Animal League ($16k).
- Does R Channing Wheeler Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does R Channing Wheeler Family 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 R Channing Wheeler Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is R Channing Wheeler Family Foundation based?
- R Channing Wheeler Family Foundation is based in CT.
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