· Private foundation
The Wise Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $106k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mission Waco | $68,945 |
| Central Texas Hospitality House | $36,000 |
| Discipleship Unlimited | $30,000 |
| Discipleship Unlimited | $29,850 |
| Our Hospice House | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
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
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
- DUDISCIPLESHIP UNLIMITED INC8× · 2018–2025 · $485k · revenue +24%
MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC8× · 2018–2025 · $445k · revenue +228%- CTCentral Texas Hospitality House8× · 2018–2025 · $297k · revenue +56% · 46% of their budget
Funded once
- GEGISD Education Foundationone grant, 2020 · $15k
- PBPidcoke Baptist Churchone grant, 2021 · $6k
- GSGARLAND SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORKone grant, 2018 · $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.
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
Provides a ministry of prayer evangelism discipleship & faith-based counseling to individuals who are incarcerated in the texas state prison system. in 2022 the ministry estimated outreach to approximately 300 individuals.
Pursue Ministries has the mission to pursue an eternal impact by introducing others to Jesus Christ, teaching the Bible and training disciples through one-on-one meetings, small groups, resources, retreats and seminars.
The mission is to provide bible correspondence courses for texas, louisiana, new mexico and mississippi inmates.
The organization's mission is to seek to cultivate christ's hope in underdeveloped and impoverished areas of the world through agricultural and personal transformation.
End-time hope ministries is a faith-based ministry that focuses on public evangelism, prison ministry, and literature distribution, with a special emphasis on reaching the hopeless.
To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.
Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.
A Jesus Mission creates unique opportunities for individuals or teams to serves as Christian missionaires around the world through traditional evangelism, discipleship training, and outreach.
C.o.o.l. ministries' number one objective is to encourage every single person who enters the threshold of our life to draw closer to god and develop a deeper and more meaningful, intimate relationship with christ.
HPRM is dedicated to transforming the lives of incarcerated individuals in Haiti. Regular religious services are held in prisons and subsequent spiritual development seesions are encouraged. Basic living needs are provided to inmates.
Divine Hope Reformed Bible Seminary exists to provide Biblical and theological instruction to the residents of correctional institutions. The goal of this rigorous program of Biblical and theological studies is the moral transformation of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Waco Mission World Inc and the most unlike its peers is Baptist Standard Publishing Co. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 25 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 DISCIPLESHIP UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Hospitality House ↗
- Who funds WORLD HUNGER RELIEF INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LIFE ACTION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds OUR HOSPICE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds AIM4INDIA ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST STANDARD PUBLISHING CO ↗
- Who funds PRISON EVANGELISM 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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.
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.