· Private foundation
The Richard Homer Wagner 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MATTHEW'S CHURCH | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF ORANGE COUNTY | $2,000 |
| ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS CHURCH | $2,000 |
| DANA POINT 5TH MARINE REGIMENT SUPPORT GROUP | $2,000 |
| PACIFIC SYMPHONY | $2,000 |
| THE PRENTICE SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $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 (FY17–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +47% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TPThe Prentice School8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +63%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +35%
- PSPacific Symphony7× · 2018–2024 · $12k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMY OCone grant, 2022 · $6k
- OFOPERA FOCUS PACIFIC SYMPHONYone grant, 2017 · $3k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
University of puget sound, as a community of learning, maintains a strong commitment to teaching excellence, scholarly engagement, and fruitful student-faculty interaction. the mission of the university is to develop in its students'…
We welcome, educate, and empower a diverse community of learners for lives of meaning, impact, and joy.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.
To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 19 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 The Prentice School ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Pacific Symphony ↗
- Who funds DANA POINT 5TH MARINE REGIMENT SUPPORT GROUP ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Storycatchers ↗
- Who funds CORNELL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALPHA GAMMA DELTA FOUNDATION 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Richard Homer Wagner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Richard Homer Wagner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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