· Private foundation
The Wheeler Family Charitable 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH | $90,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $301k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TNTHE NEXT STEP CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $145k · revenue +37%
- SVSOMERSET VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT8× · 2017–2024 · $134k · revenue +29%
- SCSOMERSET COUNTY MOBILE FOOD BANK4× · 2017–2020 · $89k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- PRPROSPECT RIDING CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -92%
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -3%
- MVMACULA VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -100%
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.
The somerset county chamber of commerce is a non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting the somerset county, pennsylvania region as a superior locale in which to live, work, vacation and conduct business.
The system was formed to coordinate the efforts of three public libraries for collections and reference materials and provide library services for all three libraries in a cooperative fashion.
To support the 4-h program (rutgers cooperative development - youth development program, somerset county, nj) in somerset county by providing a building for meeting space, sponsoring the annual 4-h fair, and providing other program support.
Private country club located in mendota heights, mn. facilities include: golf, tennis, swimming pool and fine dining.
To support somerset county, pennsylvania residents in obtaining post- secondary education.
The mission of the mary s. biesecker public library is to provide informational and recreational materials for the people of the community. provide books, programs, library services, and computer access to the public.
Preventing cruelty to animals, eliminate pet overpopulation and enhance the lives of animals as a service to the residents of somerset county. we responded to over 950 hotline calls.
The organization was created for the economic development of somerset county, pennsylvania, with it's mission to promote industrial, commercial and retail growth in the county by recruiting and assisting new firms to locate in the county,…
Promotion of agriculture and the awareness of farm life and farm activities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Outdoor Odyssey At Roaring Run Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 47 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 THE NEXT STEP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET COUNTY MOBILE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF PITTSBURGH AND MORGANTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP PARC ↗
- Who funds Childrens Aid Society Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR ODYSSEY AT ROARING RUN INC ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET COUNTY 4-H DEV FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREL ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT RIDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds MACULA VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOMERSET COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT OF SOMERSET INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF SOMERSET COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTOWN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SIPESVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · Randy and Barbara Davies Family Foundation · Riggs Family Foundation · 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 Wheeler Family Charitable 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.
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