Texas · Private foundation
The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $6.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 61
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,314,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 43
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $55M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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 | 61 | $6.7M | 36% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $4.5M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $2.7M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $6.0M | 51% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $1.7M | 63% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $930k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $225k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| McMullen Co Community Development Corp | $3,581,500 | 7 | 97% |
| Majesty Outdoors | $2,735,000 | 7 | 46% |
| Tilden Livestock Scholarship Association | $1,835,000 | 6 | 38% |
| Delivering Dreams of Arizona | $1,347,500 | 7 | 18% |
| San Antonio Zoological Society | $1,050,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Helping Hand Home for Children Inc | $345,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Fuel 4 Education Inc | $275,000 | 3 | 99% |
| Assistance League of San Antonio | $220,000 | 7 | 6% |
| The University of Texas Law School Foundation | $210,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bountiful Blessings Food Bank | $205,000 | 5 | 39% |
Show all 75 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992
How this is measured
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About The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler Foundation
- How much does The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler Foundation give?
- The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler Foundation reported 61 grants totaling $6,705,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 43 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (24%), Housing & Shelter (16%), Youth Development (14%).
- Who are The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: McMullen Co Community Development Corp ($3.6M), Majesty Outdoors ($2.7M), Tilden Livestock Scholarship Association ($1.8M).
- Does The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation, Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler Foundation based?
- The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler Foundation is based in TX.
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