· Private foundation
The Joan M Wismer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| International Medical Corps | $400,000 |
| YMCA of Greater Long Beach | $350,000 |
| Project HOME | $325,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation | $300,000 |
| Elevate 215 | $250,000 |
| The Marshall Legacy Institute | $140,000 |
| Teach For America Philadelphia | $125,000 |
| Downtown Womens Center | $100,000 |
| University of California San Diego | $100,000 |
| Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School | $75,000 |
| ReIgnite Hope | $75,000 |
| Pennsylvania Horticultural Society | $50,000 |
| Williamson College of the Trades | $50,000 |
| Philly House | $50,000 |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of The Joan M Wismer Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +38% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IMINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS6× · 2020–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +24%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +40%- MLMARSHALL LEGACY INSTITUTE6× · 2020–2025 · $840k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- DFDrexel Fundone grant, 2022 · $200k
- SHSCRIPPS HEALTHgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +47%
- MCMAST COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL IIIgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +126%
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.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.
Heights is a new kind of organization, an economic mobility catalyst. we believe that creating pathways to educational and workforce success for low-income, black and brown, and first-generation-to-college students is the keystone of a…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
Philadelphia youth network (pyn) equips young people to build lifelong skills, pursue meaningful careers, and embrace change with confidence - so they can thrive in the workforce, experience economic mobility, and strengthen their…
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 42 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 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Elevate 215 ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL LEGACY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARE FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LAS FLORISTAS INC ↗
- Who funds Reignite Hope ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds JOVENES INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES ↗
- Who funds SUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Northland ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds READY TO SUCCEED ↗
- Who funds MAST COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL III ↗
- Who funds Army Scholarship Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SERVANT PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds Catalina Island Museum ↗
- Who funds THE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY VILLAGE ↗
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: Hilda & Preston Davis Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Lenfest Foundation Inc · Elevate 215 · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Joan M Wismer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joan M Wismer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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