· Public charity
The Wfg Foundation Inc
Establishing neighborhood enhancement programs, promoting educational and scholarship opportunities, and fostering community togetherness, awareness, and intercommunication.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $128,822 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $138,675 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,853 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEWA INTERNATIONAL INC | $52,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN NEVADA | $22,480 |
| THE LANTERN NETWORK | $16,142 |
| OPERATION UNDERGROUND RAILROAD | $12,577 |
| CHINESE CULTURAL SCHOOL OF ATLANTA | $9,600 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $9,597 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $6,426 |
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 (FY18–24, $865k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of The Wfg Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2017–2024 · $609k · revenue +46%
- MNMAKE-A-WISH NEVADA5× · 2018–2024 · $81k · revenue +52%
- SSECOR5× · 2019–2023 · $62k · revenue +37%
Funded once
Feeding Americaone grant, 2021 · $322k · revenue +23%- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $322k · revenue +38%
The Houston Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $110k · revenue +107%
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.
Humanitarian aid with a specialization in areas that impact health, nutrition, and food security. We focus on children, disabled, elderly, orphaned and the very poor. We provide access to clean water through hand pumps with concrete pads…
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
The mission of Solar Cookers International is to improve human health, economic well-being, womens empowerment, and the environment by promoting climate-friendly solar cooking for vulnerable populations worldwide.
AFF is an organization founded in 1995 to encourage and promote cross-cultural friendship and goodwill in developing nations. We do this through the development and funding of programs that address pressing human need for clean water…
Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…
To help alleviate human suffering through relief assistance and long term development projects
Water for All's mission is to provide access to clean water to people all around the world by donating water filtration systems to those in need. Started in 2020, Water For All ("WFA") is a 501c3 nonprofit that works to serve those in…
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
Provide food, shelter, and medical assistance for children around the world.
Our foundation's purpose is to be able to help the less unfortunate in Vietnam, and other areas across the world. To be able to provide food, little cash to aid with living expenditures and daily necessities to people in poverty and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Nevada and the most unlike its peers is Worldwide Friends of Ugandan Orphans Inc. 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 22 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 40 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.
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- Who funds Feeding America ↗
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- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds American Friends of International China Concern Limited ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH NEVADA ↗
- Who funds SECOR ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds Good Golfers Better People of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds Sewa International Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE ALUMNI INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE FOUNDATION CORP ↗
- Who funds DALAT UNIVERSITY ALUMNI CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds Vietnam Health Education & Literature Projects ↗
- Who funds THE MAULI OLA FOUNDATION DBA BREATH OF LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE JUSTIN WREN FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds THE IRONMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WELLS OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Lantern Network ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CULTURAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM TO LIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ABANDONED LITTLE ANGELS NHOM TINH THUONG ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDE FRIENDS OF UGANDAN ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds International Children Assistance Network Inc ↗
- Who funds ARMENIA FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHINESE NEW IMMIGRANTS CENT ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DEMIS ANIMAL RESCUE 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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Wfg Foundation Inc 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.
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