· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LINC MINISTRIES INT'L | $2,000 |
| CORBELLA CLINIC | $2,000 |
| ESTHER HOMES | $2,000 |
| HOPE ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| TRINITY FIRST LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| LIFESPRING MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| REFUGE FOR WOMEN - CHICAGO | $2,000 |
| SOLID GROUND | $1,750 |
| HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $1,500 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-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.
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
How this is measured
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
- BUBEAUTIFUL U MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +82%
- JFJETT FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +233%
- CHCORRIE'S HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +294%
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.
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…
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 41 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 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 NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- 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 BEAUTIFUL U MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds JETT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORRIE'S HOUSE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wilford Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wilford Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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