Texas · 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.
- $175k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $68,945
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $423k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Wise Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $175k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $226k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $176k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $191k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $222k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $172k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $224k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $281k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discipleship Unlimited Inc | $485,275 | 8 | 14% |
| Mission Waco Mission World Inc | $444,964 | 8 | 2% |
| Central Texas Hospitality House | $296,507 | 8 | 46% |
| World Hunger Relief Institute | $76,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Life Action Ministries | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Our Hospice House | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Baptist Standard Publishing Co | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Aim4india | $3,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Prison Evangelism Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Texas Baptist Men Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discipleship Unlimited Inc | $485,275 | 8 | 14% |
| Mission Waco Mission World Inc | $444,964 | 8 | 2% |
| Central Texas Hospitality House | $296,507 | 8 | 46% |
| World Hunger Relief Institute | $76,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Life Action Ministries | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Our Hospice House | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Baptist Standard Publishing Co | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Aim4india | $3,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Prison Evangelism Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Texas Baptist Men Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Youth With a Mission | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($293k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Wise Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About The Wise Family Foundation
- How much does The Wise Family Foundation give?
- The Wise Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $174,795 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Wise Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (42%), Crime & Legal (29%), Human Services (18%).
- Who are The Wise Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Discipleship Unlimited Inc ($485k), Mission Waco Mission World Inc ($445k), Central Texas Hospitality House ($297k).
- Does The Wise Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wise Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Wise Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The US Charitable Gift Trust.
- Where is The Wise Family Foundation based?
- The Wise Family Foundation is based in TX.
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