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The Wasie 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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$4.8MHuman Services$1.9MEducation$1.3MAnimals$945kEnvironment$100kPhilanthropy$70kRecreation & Sports$63kFood & Nutrition$56kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $750k
  • $250k+2 grants · $800k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
4KIDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC$500,000
JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC$300,000
THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC$200,000
LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC$200,000
LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC$200,000
OUR LADY OF PEACE$100,000
THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC$50,000
VAIL PLACE$30,000
TRUE FRIENDS$25,000
GILDA'S CLUB TWIN CITIES INC$25,000
JESSICA JUNE CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION INC$25,000
GILLETTE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF COLLIER COUNTY INC$7,500
POLISH AMERICAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA$5,000
HOPEKIDS INC$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $361k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE LINK: $5k → 5%HOPE SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $5k → 13%GOLDEN PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS: $6k → 10%HOPE SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $3k → 13%GOLDEN PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS: $5k → 10%HELPING ABUSED NEGLECTED DISADVANTAGED YOUTH INC: $5k → 13%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $100k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $100k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $100k → 14%GOLDEN PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $3k → 10%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $5k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $2k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $1k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $1k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $10k → 11%AVOW HOSPICE INC: $5k → 10%AVOW HOSPICE INC: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
SD
CA
MO
MD
NC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.0M · 28 repeat orgs$405k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
27

Total granted

$9.0M
$367k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+80%

Still filing today

89%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TI
    THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $855k · revenue +67%
  • RC
    RESCUE CATS ROCK INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $785k · revenue +23% · 91% of their budget
  • OL
    OUR LADY OF PEACE
    5× · 2019–2024 · $319k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +409%
  • PE
    Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +140%
  • PE
    PATHWAYS EARLY EDUCATION CENTER OF IMMOKALEE INCC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
Hospice of Martin & St Lucie Inc

Hospice of martin & st. lucie, inc. exists to provide hospice, grief counseling, education and other services to patients and families, dealing with death and dying so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible. hospice…

Human Services
3
Variety Children's Hospital

To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.

Health
4
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Inc

Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…

Health
5
Hospice of the Treasure Coast Inc

Hospice of the treasure coast, inc. exists to provide hospice, grief counseling, education and other services to patients and families dealing with death and dying so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible.

—
6
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
7
Pediatric Specialty Group Inc

Pediatric specialty group, inc. (d/b/a nicklaus children's pediatric specialists ("ncps")) is a physician-directed, multi-specialty pediatric group with a regional, national, and international presence in providing pediatric-centric care…

—
8
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

—
9
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
10
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
11
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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12
Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopekids Inc; the most unlike its peers is St Marys University of Minnesota. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 63 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
41/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $2,205,000 · PhilanthropyLEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION…THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC: $855,000 · PhilanthropyTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $60,150 · PhilanthropyJOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,100,000 · HealthJOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPIT…GILDA'S CLUB TWIN CITIES INC: $158,495 · HealthGILDA'S CLUB TWIN CITIES INCVAIL PLACE: $155,000 · HealthVAIL PLACE+10 more: $136,595 · Health+10 more4KIDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $1,550,000 · Other4KIDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA I…THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $100,000 · Other+23 more: $359,991 · Other+23 moreRESCUE CATS ROCK INC: $785,000 · AnimalsRESCUE CATS…SOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $105,000 · AnimalsSOUTH FLORI…+5 more: $55,125 · Animals+5 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $75,967 · EducationMITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW: $28,598 · Education+2 more: $6,595 · EducationOUR LADY OF PEACE: $319,189 · Human ServicesGolden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc: $13,539 · Human Services+4 more: $28,190 · Human ServicesTRUE FRIENDS: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP ODAYIN: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsONE HEARTLAND: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$3,120,150Health$2,550,090Other$2,009,991Animals$945,125Education$361,160Human Services$360,918Recreation & Sports$55,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,100,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC: $855,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetRESCUE CATS ROCK INC: $785,000 over 2y, 91% of budgetOUR LADY OF PEACE: $319,189 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB TWIN CITIES INC: $158,495 over 6y, 11% of budgetVAIL PLACE: $155,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $105,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $75,967 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJESSICA JUNE CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFLORIDA CITIZENS ALLIANCE INC: $36,323 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetMITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW: $28,598 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGillette Children's Hospital Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPATTY BAKER HUMANE SOCIETY NAPLES INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAtaxia Telangiectasia Children's Project Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBreannas Gift: $15,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetGolden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc: $13,539 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP ODAYIN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY SUPPORT TEAM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAVOW Hospice Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER LEGAL CARE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHOPE SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $8,190 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKaren Wyckoff Rein in Sarcoma: $6,595 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFIREFLY SISTERHOOD: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEVERY MOTHER'S ADVOCATE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LINK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDELIVER THE DREAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH NAPLES EDUCATION CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE HEARTLAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFurry Friends Humane Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING ADVANCE AND NURTURE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH INC (HANDY INC): $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPOLISH AMERICAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $5,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetCLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLUPUS LINK MINNESOTA: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHOPEKIDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ MINNESOTA: $1,595 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Richard M Schulze…Mightycause Charitabl…The Minneapolis Found…The Batchelor Foundat…Fred C and Katherine …Collier Community Fou…McKesson Foundation I…Xcel Energy FoundationOtto Bremer TrustLeslie L Alexander Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN27.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · McKesson Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Wasie Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wasie Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Helping Advance and Nurture the Development of Youth Inc (Handy Inc): 21% of income from government
  • North Naples Education Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Avow Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Wasie Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Wasie Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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