· 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 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 $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 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA | $10,000 |
| PALESTINE CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND | $10,000 |
| HOPE BRIDGE | $10,000 |
| ST JUDES RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR OHIO | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRIST | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
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 (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 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 +86% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 51 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 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 MODERN DAY MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds Hope Bridge ↗
- Who funds LAKE CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds THE CALL ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wagler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wagler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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