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Ruth Anderson Wheeler & Henry O Wheeler Chari

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
86%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 9
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$952k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 86% of the organizations Ruth Anderson Wheeler & Henry O Wheeler Chari funded were first-time grantees, receiving 70% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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
FY2025still arriving9$50k56%
FY20247$50k86%
FY20239$50k89%
FY20225$40k80%
FY20214$40k50%
FY20209$48k33%
FY20197$48kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$116kArts & Culture$40kHealth$40kFood & Nutrition$25kYouth Development$25kCrime & Legal$20kEnvironment$10kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($58k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Ruth Anderson Wheeler & Henry O Wheeler Chari supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAnnie Wright Schools: $70,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBackpack Brigade: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVeteran Art Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetWashington Trails Association: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRebirth Homes Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAdvot: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTacoma Arts Live: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBuilding Youth Around the World: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLocal Ecology and Agriculture Fremont: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of the Columbia Basin: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetArk Institute of Learning: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLakeside School: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles City College Foundation: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFresh Start Surgical Gifts: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Science Center Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHolocaust Center For Humanity: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Academy of Pediatrics: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTacoma Youth Symphony Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSeattle Arts and Lectures: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGirl Scouts of Western Washington: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNourish Pierce County: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEM Paths Innovation Network: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPage Ahead Childrens Literacy Prgm: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChild Advocacy Center of Snohomish County: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSecond Harvest of the Greater Valley: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVoices of the Children: $5,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetPoint Defiance Zoological Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlliance for Children's Rights: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 28.

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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.

The Norcliffe FoundationWA35.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Artsfund · Wm Kilworth Fdn Tw · Fales Foundation Trust · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn

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 Ruth Anderson Wheeler & Henry O Wheeler Chari

How much does Ruth Anderson Wheeler & Henry O Wheeler Chari give?
Ruth Anderson Wheeler & Henry O Wheeler Chari reported 9 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Ruth Anderson Wheeler & Henry O Wheeler Chari fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Arts & Culture (12%), Health (12%).
Who are Ruth Anderson Wheeler & Henry O Wheeler Chari's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Annie Wright Schools ($71k), Backpack Brigade ($15k), Veteran Art Institute ($10k).
Does Ruth Anderson Wheeler & Henry O Wheeler Chari fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ruth Anderson Wheeler & Henry O Wheeler Chari accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ruth Anderson Wheeler & Henry O Wheeler Chari?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Norcliffe Foundation, Seattle Foundation, The Bamford Foundation.
Where is Ruth Anderson Wheeler & Henry O Wheeler Chari based?
Ruth Anderson Wheeler & Henry O Wheeler Chari is based in MO.

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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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