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The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
61
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$5.4MHousing & Shelter$3.7MYouth Development$3.2MFood & Nutrition$2.7MHuman Services$2.4MEducation$1.7MAnimals$1.1MHealth$325kOther$0
02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $795k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+6 grants · $4.8M
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$55M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MCMULLEN COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$1,314,000
TILDEN BAPTIST CHURCH$1,255,000
MAJESTY OUTDOORS$1,010,000
SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$500,000
Individual grant recipient$470,000
RISE AND SHINE CHILDCARE$250,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PHOENIX$200,000
FUEL 4 EDUCATION INC$100,000
HUNGRY SOULS INC$100,000
TILDEN LIVESTOCK SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION$100,000
HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN$100,000
MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES$75,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHIRSTINE$75,000
ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF SAN ANTONIO$50,000
MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO$50,000
02The need
03

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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BRIDGING AZ FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 11%OPERATION WARM: $10k → 10%REVEAL RESOURCES CENTER: $20k → 6%HUNGRY SOULS INC: $100k → 10%OPERATION WARM: $10k → 10%HUNGRY SOULS INC: $100k → 10%OPERATION WARM: $10k → 10%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $25k → 10%OPERATION WARM: $5k → 10%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PHOENIX: $400k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PHOENIX: $375k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PHOENIX: $280k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PHOENIX: $200k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PHOENIX: $60k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PHOENIX: $18k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PHOENIX: $15k → 11%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 10%DRESS FOR SUCCESS SAN ANTONIO: $10k → 16%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $5k → 16%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $5k → 16%ANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $10k → 16%ANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $10k → 16%CHILDSAFE: $25k → 16%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $100k → 16%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $100k → 16%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 16%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 16%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 16%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 53 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
25

Total granted

$21M
$655k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+7%

Still filing today

79%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $635k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MC
    McMullen Co Community Development Corp
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3.6M · revenue ×19 · 97% of their budget
  • MO
    MAJESTY OUTDOORS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +121% · 46% of their budget
  • TL
    Tilden Livestock Scholarship Association
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +84% · 38% of their budget

Funded once

  • MC
    MCMULLEN COUNTY 4-H
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • MC
    MCMULLEN COUNTY HOMES
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
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
San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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2
Southwest Winners Foundation Inc

The mission of Southwest Winners Foundation is to provide an adaptive and effective learning environment that prepares students for success in the workplace and/or college.

Education
3
San Antonio Medical Foundation

The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improvehealth care, advance biomedical science, and enhance communitywell-being by providing leadership & active stewardship of our landand other assets.

Health
4
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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5
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of San Antonio Inc

To provide a safe, caring, and temporary home away from home for the families of children receiving essential medical services in san antonio, texas.

Health
6
Valor Texas Education Foundation

Valor's mission is to educate the whole person in authentic communities for a full human life. Through our K-12 tuition-free classical charter schools and the Valor Institute, we build communities dedicated to wisdom, virtue, and…

Education
7
Greater Satx

The mission of greater:satx is to lead the developemnt and diversification of san antonio regional economy through the recruitment and expansion of qualify employers and job producing investments.

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8
The Good Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy
9
San Antonio Christian School

Partner with families to provide students a christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith and service. the school desires to associate with like-minded teachers, administrators, staff, parents, and students to communicate the…

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10
Texas a&M University-Central Tx Foundati

Operated exclusively for educational purposes specifically including to further educational activities at texas a& m university-central texas within the meaning of 501(c)(3).

Education
11
San Antonio Report

Publishing a local online news source. We believe a well informed and connected community is essential to making San Antonio a better place to live, work and play.

Arts & Culture
12
San Antonio Foster Care and Adoption and Services

San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gk Legacy 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

74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 101 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/74
Grantees still filing
44/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TILDEN BAPTIST CHURCH: $5,090,000 · OtherTILDEN BAPTIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $1,540,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+58 more: $3,038,500 · Other+58 moreMcMullen Co Community Development Corp: $3,581,500 · Community ImprovementMcMullen Co Commu…Tilden Livestock Scholarship Association: $1,835,000 · EducationTilden Livestoc…FUEL 4 EDUCATION INC: $275,000 · EducationFUEL 4 EDUCATIO…The University of Texas Law School Foundation: $210,000 · EducationThe University …BULLDOG EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $140,000 · EducationALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · Education+12 more: $630,000 · Education+12 moreMAJESTY OUTDOORS: $2,735,000 · Youth DevelopmentMAJESTY OUTDO…+3 more: $67,500 · Youth DevelopmentDelivering Dreams of Arizona: $1,347,500 · Human ServicesDelivering…HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $345,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HA…HUNGRY SOULS: $200,000 · Human ServicesHUNGRY SOU…+9 more: $160,000 · Human Services+9 moreSAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $1,050,000 · AnimalsArizona Humane Society: $55,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $40,000 · AnimalsBOUNTIFUL BLESSINGS FOOD BANK: $205,000 · Food & NutritionDAILY BREAD MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionTEXAS BEEF INITIATIVE: $25,000 · Food & NutritionHILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$9,668,500Community Improvement$3,581,500Education$3,210,000Youth Development$2,802,500Human Services$2,052,500Animals$1,145,000Food & Nutrition$290,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMcMullen Co Community Development Corp: $3,581,500 over 7y, 97% of budgetMAJESTY OUTDOORS: $2,735,000 over 7y, 46% of budgetTilden Livestock Scholarship Association: $1,835,000 over 6y, 38% of budgetDelivering Dreams of Arizona: $1,347,500 over 7y, 18% of budgetSAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $1,050,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $345,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetFUEL 4 EDUCATION INC: $275,000 over 3y, 99% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN ANTONIO: $220,000 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetThe University of Texas Law School Foundation: $210,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBOUNTIFUL BLESSINGS FOOD BANK: $205,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $200,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHUNGRY SOULS: $200,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBULLDOG EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGK LEGACY FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 4y, 51% of budgetEX-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF UT: $105,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJOURDANTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 3y, 66% of budgetSAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC: $95,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Woman's Club of San Antonio: $90,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO: $85,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTrinity University: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE WEST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 68% of budgetUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY ENDEAVORS INC: $73,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt Mary's University: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Station ISD Education Foundation Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetOPMD ASSOCIATION: $65,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetWitte Museum: $65,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOURAGE RANCH: $60,000 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDAILY BREAD MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAFER PATH FAMILY VIOLENCE SHELTER: $37,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetAtascosa Health Center Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetI CARE SAN ANTONIO INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetProject MEND: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTEXAS BEEF INITIATIVE: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCHILDSAFE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTexas A&M-San Antonio Institute for School and Community Partnerships: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE OF SOUTH TEXAS: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE WINSTON SCHOOL SAN ANTONIO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN ANTONIO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOSPICE AUSTIN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds McMullen Co Community Development Corp ↗
  • Who funds MAJESTY OUTDOORS ↗
  • Who funds Tilden Livestock Scholarship Association ↗
  • Who funds Delivering Dreams of Arizona ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds FUEL 4 EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
  • Who funds The University of Texas Law School Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BOUNTIFUL BLESSINGS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNGRY SOULS ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds BULLDOG EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GK LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EX-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF UT ↗
  • Who funds JOURDANTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Woman's Club of San Antonio ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO ↗
  • Who funds Trinity University ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE WEST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY ENDEAVORS INC ↗
  • Who funds St Mary's University ↗
  • Who funds College Station ISD Education Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds OPMD ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Witte Museum ↗
  • Who funds COURAGE RANCH ↗

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.

San Antonio Area Foun…Harvey E Najim Charit…Faye L & William L Co…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Marcia & Otto Koehler…The Texas Cavaliers C…Pryor Myra Stafford C…John L Santikos Chari…John R & Greli N Less…St Luke's Lutheran He…Betty Stieren Kelso F…Elizabeth Huth Coates…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX56× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 101 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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