· Private foundation
The Wilhoit 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 $10k11 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $117k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| ST MARY'S FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| BETTY FORD ALPINE GARDENS | $15,000 |
| ASU FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ST MARY MAGDALENE | $12,000 |
| DIOCESE OF PHOENIX | $5,000 |
| INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND | $5,000 |
| ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| ROBINSON RANCH | $5,000 |
| ST JOSEPH THE WORKER | $3,750 |
| THE FOSTER ALLIANCE | $3,750 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $3,750 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST | $3,750 |
| AID TO WOMEN CENTER | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 6 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- SMST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE5× · 2020–2024 · $168k · revenue +31%
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +196%- CECATHOLIC EDUCATION ARIZONA2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- MOMOUNT OF THE HOLY CROSSone grant, 2020 · $8k
- OLOUR LADY OF THE ANGELSone grant, 2020 · $5k
- GPGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INCone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…
Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Providing quality, affordable supportive housing for persons with behavioral health needs in maricopa county.
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
Arizona women's recovery center (awrc) offers treatment and program support to substance abusing women. awrc has an intensive outpatient program, a supportive housing program for families, and a healthy connections program for pregnant…
The arizona pet project creates systemic change and provides resources, so no families are forced to balance their own basic needs of food, shelter, and safety and the needs of their companion animals, often the only meaningful connection…
No cost legal services provided to vulnerable young people and trafficking survivors to help eliminate barriers to safety, stability, and opportunity. Specializing in family law, criminal history repair, vital document collection, and…
Enable families on the precipice of homelessness, or currently experiencing homelessness, to sustain or gain employment, independent housing and self-sufficiency.
Jewish family & children's services of southern arizona helps all people meet their full potential by providing expert community and behavioral health services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest and the most unlike its peers is Aid to Women Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 29 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 ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC EDUCATION ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOSTER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AID TO WOMEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Betty Ford Alpine Gardens ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds St Joseph the Worker ↗
- Who funds Helens Hope Chest ↗
- Who funds Arizona Humane Society ↗
- Who funds ROBINSON RANCH LLC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S PLACE PITTSBURGH RELIEF NURSERY ↗
- Who funds CHATTING WITH CHAR CHAR LLC ↗
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: Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Wilhoit 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.