· Private foundation
The Wagler 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $213k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EXCELLENCIES OF CHRIST | $75,000 |
| HAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES | $40,000 |
| TIKKUN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $40,000 |
| REFUGE OF HOPE | $28,000 |
| CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF OHIO | $25,000 |
| MERCY CHEFS | $20,000 |
| ISRAEL FIRSTFRUITS INC | $15,000 |
| SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN | $15,000 |
| HOPE BRIDGE | $10,000 |
| PALESTINE CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA | $10,000 |
| LIFE OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| ST JUDES RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR OHIO | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- EOExcellencies of Christ5× · 2020–2025 · $178k · revenue +19%
- IFIsrael Firstfruits Inc6× · 2019–2025 · $115k · revenue +97%
- MCMERCY CHEFS INC3× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- BOBLESSINGS OF HOPEone grant, 2024 · $100k
- GGLOBALone grant, 2020 · $72k
- HCHIRAM COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -17%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
To serve Christ by providing expertise, resources, and leadership to help the church make Christian Disciples in foreign lands, and to render assistance to the poor, sick, and needy in our places of service.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Chi prepares graduates of the christel house schools operated by its affiliated entities, which chi funds and oversees, to achieve upward economic mobility, demonstrate good citizenship, and become empowered to identify and realize their…
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
International christian outreach organization working through a network of individuals, congregations and other entities or groups.
To promote the gospel of jesus christ by developing u.s. collaborative support for african christian outreach ministries, including education, job creation, health initiatives and acts of mercy.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
To provide support for the efforts of christians of the former soviet union in reaching the influencers of their countries for christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Excellencies of Christ ↗
- Who funds Israel Firstfruits Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds Go Forth Ministry ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds HIRAM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ELIJAH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Hope Bridge ↗
- Who funds MODERN DAY MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CALL ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AKRON INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Jewish Voice Ministries Intl · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Wagler Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.