· Private foundation
The Wieler Family Private 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
98% of The Wieler Family Private Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Wieler Family Private Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $267k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2021
- Under $10k7 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GILMAN SCHOOL | $75,381 |
| Swartmore College | $30,121 |
| WALTERS ART MUSEUM | $25,155 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MD | $25,000 |
| PAUL'S PLACE OUTREACH CENTER | $20,669 |
| PEACE HOUSE | $20,484 |
| PARK CITY MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| MD Center for Hist & Cult | $15,000 |
| PEACE HOUSE | $10,123 |
| ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ST LUKE'S - PARK CITY | $5,000 |
| PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ADELANTE LATINA | $5,000 |
| UMFA | $3,275 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
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 (FY19–22, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +33% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2021, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE3× · 2017–2019 · $730k · revenue +70%- GSGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED5× · 2017–2021 · $720k · revenue +45%
- SPST PAUL'S SCHOOL3× · 2017–2020 · $299k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF U OF PENNSYLVANIAone grant, 2018 · $100k
- CMCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTERone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -54%
- TWTHE WHARTON FUNDone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
How this is measured
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 62 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Peace House Inc ↗
- Who funds PARK CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE LATINA INC ↗
- Who funds PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM TRUSTEE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
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: France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Patricia and Mark Joseph Shelter Foundation Inc · Clayton Baker Trust · Robert W Deutsch Foundation · T Rowe Price Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Nora Roberts Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wieler Family Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wieler Family Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Paul's Place Inc: 29% of income from government
- Maryland Historical Society Inc: 9% of income from government
- Stevenson University: 6% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Inc: 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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