· Private foundation
Sam E & Burnice C Wittel 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY | $30,000 |
| IXO | $20,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $13,000 |
| FEBC - KOREA IN LOS ANGELES | $12,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI SPORTS HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM | $11,000 |
| NEW STAGE THEATRE | $10,000 |
| THE HOOVER INSTITUTION | $10,000 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER | $5,000 |
| WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MISSISSIPPI DENTISTRY | $5,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $5,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $5,000 |
| AFRICAN BIBLE COLLEGES | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
40 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TWTHE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +78%
- MSMISSISSIPPI SPORTS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $42k · revenue +23%
- ABAFRICAN BIBLE COLLEGES INC5× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- BCBELHAVEN COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $27k
- TRTHE REDEEMERS SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +361%
- TCTougaloo Collegegraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +26%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
In response to the love of god, the methodist rehabilitation center, is dedicated to the restoration and enhancement of the lives of those we serve. we are committed to excellence and leadership in the delivery of comprehensive…
The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
Mississippi state university foundation, inc. is a non-profit organization that assists mississippi state university in accomplishing its goals and mission by cultivating and soliciting private support and ensuring stewardship for all…
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
Mississippi college is a private, co-educational, comprehensive university of liberal arts and sciences and professional studies dedicated to the pursuit of academic excellence. founded in 1826, mississippi college is the oldest…
Shaped by christian principles, mcmurry university challenges students to examine our complex world from multiple perspectives in preparation for lives of leadership, service and professional success.
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
Mid-america reformed seminary seeks to serve the church by preparing students for gospel ministry as pastors, or those whose service to the church may be enhanced by theological education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 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. 41 of the 61 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 MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds Belhaven University ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI KIDNEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI SPORTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN BIBLE COLLEGES INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDOPARTNERS AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM CLIFF HEATON JR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOW REAP FEED ↗
- Who funds PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds The Mustard Seed Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSION FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds THE REDEEMERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Tougaloo College ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ergon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Walker Foundation · Feild Co-Operative Association · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · The Pruet Foundation · Make a Difference Foundation · James W Hood Family Foundation · C Spire Foundation · Telos Foundation Inc · T H Etheridge Trust
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 Sam E & Burnice C Wittel 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.
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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