· Private foundation
The Wapakoneta Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CNEWA | $19,000 |
| DIGNITAS UKRAINE INC | $10,000 |
| ST COLUMBA'S CHURCH | $9,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE DC | $7,000 |
| METROBETHESDA ROTARY FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| SO WHAT ELSE INC | $5,000 |
| COMMISSARIAT OF THE HOLY LAND FOR USA | $5,000 |
| UKRAINE FOCUS | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL CATHEDRAL SCHOOL | $4,500 |
| ANERA | $4,000 |
| BRAVER ANGELS | $4,000 |
| EQUESTRIAN ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE | $3,400 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $3,000 |
| FRANCISCAN ACTION NETWORK | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +16% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 8 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- LDLIGHTHOUSE DC6× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +32%
- SWSO WHAT ELSE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue ×28
- FOFAMILY OF CHRIST USA INC2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +188%
Funded once
- PEPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAone grant, 2022 · $18k
- CRCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESone grant, 2021 · $10k
- FMFree Minds Book Club & Writing Workshopgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +62%
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Relief international (ri) partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change, and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience, and promote long-term health and wellbeing of people in the communities that we serve. relief…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…
Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…
Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…
Rpi's mission is to partner with local non-gov organizations and others to strengthen protection and self-reliance among refugees and internally displaced persons near conflict zones.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mediators Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Washington Interfaith Network. 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 33 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 9% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 101 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 LIGHTHOUSE DC ↗
- Who funds Dignitas Ukraine Inc ↗
- Who funds SO WHAT ELSE INC ↗
- Who funds MetroBethesda Rotary Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY OF CHRIST USA INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds GIDEONS PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds UKRAINE FOCUS ↗
- Who funds CHARLES E DECKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CEELI INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds LUCKY DOG ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds Friendship Place ↗
- Who funds doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROTARY ACTION GROUP FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds HUGS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop ↗
- Who funds Washington Interfaith Network ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Open Society Institute · Chubb Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Aetna Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving 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 Wapakoneta 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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.