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The David & Willa Grace Wynne Foundation at a glance

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The David & Willa Grace Wynne 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.

$356k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$119k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0177% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.1MEducation$386kHealth$196kHuman Services$50kCivil Rights$36kInternational$25kPublic Benefit$5kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $222k
$9,100
Median grant
7
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$118,500
REFORMED FORUM$103,400
MONTREAT COLLEGE$40,000
HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATI$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Individual grant recipient$9,900
FORGE FOR FAMILIES$9,100
LIVE ACTION$6,100
TOWN OF MONTREAT$5,000
FIFTH WARD PREGNANCY HELP CENTER$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
MINTS$3,000
THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS INC$1,500
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST$1,000
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 (FY18–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS INC: $2k → 10%THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS INC: $2k → 10%THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS: $1k → 10%THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS: $1k → 10%THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS: $1k → 10%THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS INC: $500 → 10%HOUSTON PREGNANCY HELP CENTER: $8k → 16%HOUSTON PREGNANCY HELP CENTER: $3k → 16%HOUSTON PREGNANCY HELP CENTER: $1k → 16%PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
PA
VA
TN
NC
SC
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 15 repeat orgs$246k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
13

Total granted

$2.4M
$212k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
+18%

Still filing today

53%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsCrime & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RF
    REFORMED FORUM
    5× · 2020–2024 · $530k · revenue +121% · 47% of their budget
  • RT
    REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $371k · revenue +54%
  • MONTREAT COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $333k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • WP
    WESTMINSTER PREBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • UL
    UT LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +134%
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
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…

Education
2
Remnant University

Providing students with evangelical education in order to bring them up as godly servants and to glorify God

Religion
3
Houston Graduate School of Theology

Equip women and men to be ministers and messengers of God's mission of reconciliation through academic excellence, personal transformation, and leadership development.

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4
Instituto De Estudios Teologicos

Conference

Education
5
Apt Ministries

To train pastors/leaders in africa who have little or no formal training and resources. teach them how to study and prepare bible-based messages using the thompson chain reference study bible and to provide bible to trained pastors/leaders.

Religion
6
The King's University

The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.

Education
7
Grace Bible Theological Seminary

Reformed baptist theological seminary see 4a below

Education
8
Shepherds Theological Seminary Inc

To train men and women for ministry.

Education
9
Asbury Theological Seminary

Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…

Education
10
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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11
The King's University

The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.

Education
12
Trinity Bible College and Graduate School

Trinity bible college & graduate school (tbc) is committed to training and educating people with theological reflection and missional passion in order that people and communities everywhere will hear the good news of jesus and see his love…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reformed Theological Seminary; the most unlike its peers is Therapy Pet Pals of Texas. 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

13 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. 13 of the 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $479,060 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $411,408 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATI: $165,000 · OtherHOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATIWESTMINSTER PREBYTERIAN CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherWESTMINSTER PREBYTERIAN CHURCHUT LAW SCHOOL: $50,000 · Other+16 more: $126,458 · Other+16 moreREFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $371,000 · EducationREFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYMONTREAT COLLEGE: $333,100 · EducationMONTREAT COLLEGE+1 more: $2,500 · EducationREFORMED FORUM: $530,150 · ReligionREFORMED FORUMSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $25,000 · Religion+1 more: $12,500 · ReligionTHE FORGE FOR FAMILIES: $31,000 · Crime & LegalLIVE ACTION: $30,600 · Civil RightsHouston Pregnancy Help Center Inc: $11,000 · Human ServicesTHERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS: $6,500 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human Services
Other$1,331,926Education$706,600Religion$567,650Crime & Legal$31,000Civil Rights$30,600Human Services$18,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREFORMED FORUM: $530,150 over 5y, 47% of budgetREFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $371,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMONTREAT COLLEGE: $333,100 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FORGE FOR FAMILIES: $31,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLIVE ACTION: $30,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL PASTOR TRAINING: $12,500 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetHouston Pregnancy Help Center Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $9,333 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS: $6,500 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetMOUNT CARMEL ACADEMY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds REFORMED FORUM ↗
  • Who funds REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds MONTREAT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE FORGE FOR FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL PASTOR TRAINING ↗
  • Who funds Houston Pregnancy Help Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE SOURCE FOR WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT CARMEL ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗

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.

Servant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Christian Community F…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Servant FoundationKS13.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 David & Willa Grace Wynne Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David & Willa Grace Wynne Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 32 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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