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The Wise Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$63k
Granted FY2023
13
Grants FY2023
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212023.

Education$25kArts & Culture$12kHuman Services$10kAnimals$6kHealth$5kFood & Nutrition$5kPhilanthropy$5kEmployment$2kOther$0
02FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k11 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE WOMENS CENTER$10,000
Gods World Preschool$10,000
DOLLY PARTONS IMAGINATION LIBRARY$5,000
SAN IEGO FOOD BANK$5,000
ASPCA$5,000
Moonlight Cultural Foundation$5,000
COMPUTERS 2KIDS$5,000
SAN DIEGO COUNCIL ON LITERCY$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
COURAGE INC$5,000
Mike Rowe Works$1,197
Patio Playhouse Foundation$1,000
The Open Barn Animal Sanctuary$500
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $10k) 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.

area typical 10%HOPE WOMENS CENTER: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 17% of The Wise Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Wise Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your field

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.

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San Diego Futures Foundation

The mission of the san diego futures foundation is to improve lives in san diego county by making information technology available to underserved individuals, organizations and disadvantaged small businesses through training, education,…

Education
2
Dormont Public Library

To provide informational, educational and recreational resources which inspire personal and community enlightenment and enhance quality of life in our community. Our vision is that the library will be a chosen destination for the community…

3
San Diego Crime Commission

Law enforcement agencies in today's environment find it difficult to cope with the magnitude of crime without the involved support of business, media and community. Since 1981, the San Diego County Crime Commission has built public…

4
League of Women Voters of Los Angeles

The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and…

5
South Coast Symphony

Founded in 1996, The South Coast Symphony, the unstuffy symphony, is a resident orchestra for South Orange County. The seventy member Symphony services South Orange County's fifteen diverse communities with a professional, accessible and…

Arts & Culture
6
San Diego Theatre Critics Circle

The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to reviewing and honoring the top achievements in San Diego professional theater. The organization is made up of 9 professional theater critics who…

Arts & Culture
7
J3 Foundation
Education
8
The Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland

The literacy cooperative of cleveland was formed for public, charitable, scientific, and educational purposes relating to the improvement of the literacy rate in the greater cleveland area.

Education
9
Children's Book Project

Organization mission: the mission of the san francisco-based children's book project (the "project") is to promote literacy by providing (1) free books to children who need them for equity in literacy, learning, and life, and (2) free…

Human Services
10
San Diego Junior Theatre

San Diego Junior Theatre (Junior Theatre) was incorporated in 1948 as a nonprofit corporation and is the oldest youth theatre in the nation, offering affordable camps, classes, and outreach programs for children ages 3-18; as well as six…

11
Friends of the Seattle Public Library

The Friends of the Seattle Public Library's mission is to elevate the Library and inspire the love of reading in our communities.

Education
12
San Diego Public Library Foundation

The library foundation strengthens communities by supporting excellence in the san diego public library system through philanthropy, advocacy and outreach.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Computers 2 Sd Kids and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Gods World Preschool — $10,000 · OtherGods World PreschoolPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $5,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODSAN IEGO FOOD BANK — $5,000 · OtherSAN IEGO FOOD BANKCOURAGE INCORPORATED — $5,000 · OtherCOURAGE INCORPORATEDTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION+5 more — $4,000 · Other+5 moreHOPE WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesHOPE WOMEN'S CE…San Diego Council on Literacy — $8,000 · PhilanthropySan Diego Coun…MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION — $1,197 · PhilanthropyMIKEROWEWORKS …MOONLIGHT CULTURAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureEAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY — $500 · Arts & CultureCOMPUTERS 2 SD KIDS — $5,000 · EducationTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $5,000 · AnimalsJUSTICE DEFENDERS (USA) INC — $2,000 · InternationalThe Freecycle Network — $500 · Environment
Other$34,000Human Services$10,000Philanthropy$9,197Arts & Culture$5,500Education$5,000Animals$5,000International$2,000Environment$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOPE WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSan Diego Council on Literacy — $8,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMOONLIGHT CULTURAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMPUTERS 2 SD KIDS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTICE DEFENDERS (USA) INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION — $1,197 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ESCONDIDO PUBLIC LIBRARY — $1,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY — $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Freecycle Network — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Wise 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Wise Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Wise Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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