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R Halsey & Lisha S Wise 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.

$450k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Education$1.1MFood & Nutrition$775kPhilanthropy$710kHealth$155kEmployment$5k
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$400,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$400,000
UNIVERSITY NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION$50,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY HOSPICE OF NE FLORIDA: $70k → 14%HIRE HEROES USA: $5k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $400k → 27%JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $400k → 8%PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA: $25k → 9%COMMUNITY HOSPICE OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $100k → 27%THE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $25k → 8%REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $500k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $100k → 27%REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $75k → 14%REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $50k → 14%REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $50k → 14%REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $50k → 14%REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $50k → 14%MAYO CLINIC: $80k → 14%UNIVERSITY NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA: $700k → 14%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
04Your field

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.

1
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
2
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
3
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…

Education
4
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
5
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc

Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
University of Virginia Alumni Association

The mission of the alumni association is to build the strongest bond among alumni and between alumni and the university by serving all alumni and students; being the center for engaging and connecting the global uva community; acting as a…

Education
8
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.

Education
9
The Florida State University Foundation Inc

The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…

Education
10
North Dakota State University Foundation

Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.

Education
11
George Mason University Foundation Inc

The george mason university foundation, inc. was established in 1966 to receive, manage, invest, and administer private gifts for the benefit of the university.

Education
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jefferson Scholars Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hire Heroes Usa Inc. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC — $710,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA…JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $400,000 · PhilanthropyJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION+1 more — $25,000 · PhilanthropyRegional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc — $775,000 · Food & NutritionRegional Food Bank of Northeast …THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $600,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FO…UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA …THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA — $25,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationMAYO CLINIC — $79,522 · OtherCOMMUNITY HOSPICE OF NE FLORIDA — $70,000 · Other+1 more — $5,000 · Other
Philanthropy$1,135,000Food & Nutrition$775,000Education$680,000Other$154,522

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRegional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc — $775,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC — $710,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Pfizer Foundation IncNY11.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 R Halsey & Lisha S Wise Family Foundation 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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