· Private foundation
The Wilford Family 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FIRST LOVE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| NEW LIFE ACADEMY EDUCATION | $3,500 |
| C247 FATHER'S ARMS MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $2,500 |
| LIFESPRING MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| REFUGE FOR WOMEN - CHICAGO | $2,000 |
| ESTHER HOMES | $2,000 |
| HOPE ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| CORBELLA CLINIC | $2,000 |
| LINC MINISTRIES INT'L | $2,000 |
| TRINITY FIRST LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| SOLID GROUND | $1,750 |
| OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
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, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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.
35 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- NLNEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +255%
- FLFIRST LOVE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +7%
- C7C24 7 FATHER'S ARMS MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- JFJETT FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +233%
- UVURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +30%
- BUBEAUTIFUL U MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +82%
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.
Hope house of northwest michigan is a non-profit christian maternity home that provides a safe loving residential environment for single expectant young women. through up to two years of residence the organization offers housing baby…
Feed those in need, house those experiencing homelessness, and empower individuals to achieve independence.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
Life house works to reconnect homeless and street youth to their dreams with a vision that no youth will be left homeless, alone, uncared for, or fending for themselves on the streets. our comprehensive service model aims to engage and…
Hope gospel mission exists to offer christ-centered, life changing help to the homeless and needy in western wisconsin.
House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…
Family Promise in Anoka County (FPAC) empowers families experiencing housing insecurity to build a foundation of lasting independence.
Christ House provides 24-hour comprehensive and compassionate care for people experiencing homelessness with acute medical needs in the District of Columbia and offers assistance in addressing critical issues to help break the cycle of…
Hope ministries is one of the largest private providers of free meals, safe shelter, and comprehensive life-recovery support for homeless, near-homeless, and hungry men, women, and children in iowa. the mission of hope ministries is to…
The Dwelling Place is a Christ-centered ministry providing healing and hope to victims of domestic abuse through supportive services and a safe, transitional place to call home.
See Schedule O.Established in 1895, Missions Inc. Programs is a multi-service non-profit organization with a long history of providing services to those who are most in need, each year offering thousands of people, whose lives have been…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fox Valley Pregnancy Center. 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 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 41 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 NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FIRST LOVE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds C24 7 FATHER'S ARMS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground ↗
- Who funds REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Valley Outreach ↗
- Who funds OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds E S T H E R Homes Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE FARM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Fox Valley Pregnancy Center ↗
- Who funds JOSEPHS COAT INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds JETT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEAUTIFUL U MINISTRIES 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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · American Endowment 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 Wilford Family 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.