· Private foundation
The Gus S Wetzel Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOLDEN VALLEY MEMORIAL HOSP FDTN | $153,000 |
| CLINTON METHODIST CHURCH | $15,500 |
| EDUCATION FDTN FOR CLINTON STUDENTS | $12,600 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $6,100 |
| UCM ALUMNI FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CLINTON ANIMAL RESCUE ENDEAVOR | $2,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $2,500 |
| CLINTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $2,100 |
| HENRY COUNTY MEMORY FUND | $1,000 |
| ST PAUL SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY | $1,000 |
| HOLY ROSARY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $1,000 |
| SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WESTMINSTER COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| CLINTON ARTS COUNCIL | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
65 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GVGolden Valley Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $158k · revenue +677%
- WCWESTMINSTER COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +5%
- SCSHOW-ME CHRISTIAN YOUTH HOME8× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- TMTHE MARY JO & KENT CABLE CHARITABLEone grant, 2021 · $8k
- TSTHE SAMARITAN CENTER - CLINTON MOone grant, 2017 · $5k
- TSTHE SAMARITAN CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +26%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
54 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. 54 of the 148 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Golden Valley Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR CLINTON STUDENTS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUMAN LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HAITIAN CHRISTIAN MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SHOW-ME CHRISTIAN YOUTH HOME ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE RAINBOW NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAMARITAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CLINTON ROTARY CLUB ↗
- Who funds SAGRADA SCHOLARSHIP BIBLE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH NETS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds CLINTON ANIMAL RESCUE ENDEAVOR ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Truman Lake Community Foundation · The Mary Jo & Kent Cable Foundation · Lindon Q Skidmore Charitable Trust · David & Shirley Lowe Family Fdn 14537900 · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Truman Heartland Community Foundation · Greater Horizons · Verizon Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gus S Wetzel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gus S Wetzel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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