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Scott R Wheaton Foundation Co Regions Bank

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$18kPhilanthropy$9kEducation$6kAnimals$4kHealth$4kArts & Culture$4kCrime & Legal$4kEnvironment$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,700
Median grant
4
States reached
$186k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROTHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS$6,000
FRIENDS OF SARASOTA COUNTY PARKS INC$1,700
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE$700
WHEATON FOUNDATION$600
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRIEND SARASOTA COUNTY PARK: $3k → 9%EDISON WINTER ESTATES: $700 → 11%ANIMAL COALITION: $700 → 13%ROME FLOYD HUMANE SOCIETY: $250 → 15%COALITION: $600 → 15%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $1k → 7%OCHSNE DEPARTMENT OF PHILANTHROPY: $4k → 15%CITY PARK CONSERVANCY: $2k → 23%FRIENDS OF SARASOTA COUNTY PARKS INC: $2k → 9%ANIMAL COALITION: $500 → 13%COALITION: $500 → 15%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $800 → 7%OCHSNE DEPARTMENT OF PHILANTHROPY: $4k → 15%CITY PARK CONSERVANCY: $2k → 23%FRIENDS OF SARASOTA COUNTY PARKS INC: $2k → 9%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $700 → 7%OCHSNER HEALTH DEPT OF PHILANTHROPY: $3k → 15%CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER: $750 → 23%FRIEND SARASOTA COUNTY PARK: $600 → 9%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $500 → 7%THE OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART INC: $750 → 23%FRIENDS OF SARASOTA COUNTY PARKS INC: $600 → 9%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $500 → 7%OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART INC: $500 → 23%FRIENDS OF LEGACY TRAIL: $2k → 9%CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER: $500 → 23%FRIENDS OF LEGACY TRAIL: $500 → 9%BROTHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $6k → 23%FRIENDS OF THE LEGACY TRAIL INC: $300 → 9%FRIENDS OF CITY PARK: $4k → 23%VENICE BEAUTIFICATION INC: $1k → 9%LOUISIANA SPCA: $3k → 23%VENICE BEAUTIFICATION INC: $500 → 9%VENICE AREA BEAUTIFICATION INC: $500 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32k · 11 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
7

Total granted

$32k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+158%

Still filing today

55%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
Recreation & SportsArts & CultureCivil RightsPhilanthropyEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CP
    CITY PARK CONSERVANCY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $4k · revenue +14%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +57%
  • OM
    OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART
    2× · 2021–2023 · $1k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CITY PARK
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +48%
  • OH
    OCHSNER HEALTH DEPT OF PHILANTHROPY
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • LS
    LOUISIANA SPCA
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Friends of Venice Italy Inc
Philanthropy
2
Saint Peters Landmark Preservation Trust
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3
Florida Animal Protection Foundation
Animals
4
Sonoma Botanical Garden
—
5
Friends of Jemison Park

To preserve and protect the natural attractions of robert jemison park.

—
6
Renaissance Committee

Preservation of historic savannah

Human Services
7
The Bay Park Conservancy Inc

The bay park conservancy (bpc) was formed to implement the master plan approved by the sarasota city commission to conserve 53 acres of public land for a signature park along sarasota bay. the bpc entered a long-term partnership with the…

Community Improvement
8
Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…

—
9
Huron-Clinton Metroparks Foundation

To provide critical support to sustain the huron-clinton metoropolitan authority for the enrichment of the people and environment of southeast michigan

Public Benefit
10
Friends of Patterson Park Inc

To preserve and promote Patterson Park.

Environment
11
Riverfront Museum Park

Support and sustain a vibrant and healthy facility that enables our member organizations to showcase the arts and sciences.

—
12
Roanoke Parks Foundation
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of City Park; the most unlike its peers is Wheaton Foundation. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OCHSNE DEPARTMENT OF PHILANTHROPY: $8,000 · OtherOCHSNE DEPARTMENT OF PHILANTHROPYBROTHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $6,000 · OtherBROTHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSFRIENDS OF CITY PARK: $4,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF CITY PARKFRIEND SARASOTA COUNTY PARK: $3,600 · OtherFRIEND SARASOTA COUNTY PARKOCHSNER HEALTH DEPT OF PHILANTHROPY: $3,000 · OtherOCHSNER HEALTH DEPT OF PHILANTHROPYLOUISIANA SPCA: $3,000 · OtherLOUISIANA SPCAFRIENDS OF LEGACY TRAIL: $2,750 · OtherFRIENDS OF LEGACY TRAILVENICE BEAUTIFICATION INC: $1,500 · OtherANIMAL COALITION: $1,200 · Other+2 more: $1,800 · OtherFRIENDS OF SARASOTA COUNTY PARKS INC: $4,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF SARASO…CITY PARK CONSERVANCY: $3,500 · Recreation & SportsCITY PARK CONSERV…FRIENDS OF THE LEGACY TRAIL INC: $300 · Recreation & SportsINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $3,500 · Civil RightsContemporary Arts Center: $1,250 · Arts & CultureOGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART: $1,250 · Arts & CultureWHEATON FOUNDATION: $600 · PhilanthropyVENICE AREA BEAUTIFICATION INC: $500 · EnvironmentROME FLOYD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $250 · Animals
Other$34,850Recreation & Sports$7,800Civil Rights$3,500Arts & Culture$2,500Philanthropy$600Environment$500Animals$250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF SARASOTA COUNTY PARKS INC: $4,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CITY PARK: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITY PARK CONSERVANCY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetContemporary Arts Center: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition: $1,100 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWHEATON FOUNDATION: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVENICE AREA BEAUTIFICATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LEGACY TRAIL INC: $300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROME FLOYD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Scott R Wheaton Foundation Co Regions Bank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scott R Wheaton Foundation Co Regions Bank. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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