· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +4% · 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
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.
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…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 25 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 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 BAPTIST STANDARD PUBLISHING CO ↗
- Who funds AIM4INDIA ↗
- Who funds PRISON EVANGELISM INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wise Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wise Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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