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The Frances and John Wahl Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$75k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 12
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Frances and John Wahl Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$75k75%
FY20242$28k50%
FY20234$38k50%
FY20227$100k0%
FY202112$225k67%
FY20205$105kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$203kEducation$175kRecreation & Sports$60kArts & Culture$38kHealth$35kYouth Development$35kHuman Services$25k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Foundation for Service Dog Support Inc$75,000421%
Mission K9 Rescue Inc$50,00041%
Little League Baseball Inc$40,000248%
A Soldiers Child Inc$25,00022%
Under the Shield$25,000114%
Hands and Hoofs$20,0001n/a
Audrey's Angels$20,0001n/a
Young Arts Arizona Ltd$20,000110%
Halo Helping Animals Live on Inc$15,00010%
Girls on the Run - Chicago Inc$15,00011%
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All grantees of The Frances and John Wahl Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Foundation for Service Dog Support Inc$75,000421%
Mission K9 Rescue Inc$50,00041%
Little League Baseball Inc$40,000248%
A Soldiers Child Inc$25,00022%
Under the Shield$25,000114%
Hands and Hoofs$20,0001n/a
Audrey's Angels$20,0001n/a
Young Arts Arizona Ltd$20,000110%
Halo Helping Animals Live on Inc$15,00010%
Girls on the Run - Chicago Inc$15,00011%
Arizona Psychological Foundation Inc$15,0002n/a
Aircraft Carrier Hornet Foundation$10,00011%
The Art Resource Center$7,5001n/a

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($233k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Frances and John Wahl Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Foundation for Service Dog Support Inc: $75,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetMission K9 Rescue Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLittle League Baseball Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetA Soldiers Child Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUnder the Shield: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetYoung Arts Arizona Ltd: $20,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetHalo Helping Animals Live on Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGirls on the Run - Chicago Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAircraft Carrier Hornet Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About The Frances and John Wahl Foundation

How much does The Frances and John Wahl Foundation give?
The Frances and John Wahl Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $75,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Frances and John Wahl Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (36%), Education (31%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
Who are The Frances and John Wahl Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Foundation for Service Dog Support Inc ($75k), Mission K9 Rescue Inc ($50k), Little League Baseball Inc ($40k).
Does The Frances and John Wahl Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Frances and John Wahl Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Frances and John Wahl Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Charities Aid Foundation America, Network for Good.
Where is The Frances and John Wahl Foundation based?
The Frances and John Wahl Foundation is based in AZ.

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 19 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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