· Private foundation
The Wobniar Foundation Inc
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $17,978 |
| THE WASHINGTON TENNIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,882 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| GEORGETOWN PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $2,442 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $463 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS | $350 |
| PHILLIPS ACADEMY | $250 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $250 |
| SQUASH HAVEN | $250 |
| MACALESTER COLLEGE | $250 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE | $250 |
| BUCKLEY SCHOOL | $250 |
| GLEN ECHO FIRE DEPARTMENT | $100 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $100 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $100 |
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 (FY18–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 10 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D7× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +31%
The Madeira School5× · 2018–2024 · $16k · revenue +206%- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc3× · 2018–2024 · $7k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- ACACA CAMPER SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CNCHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
- DIDO IT FOR THE LOVEone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -41%
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Education and Research
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 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. 45 of the 69 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 BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DO IT FOR THE LOVE ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TONY ROBBINS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SQUASH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TATTOO INC ↗
- Who funds MACALESTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA SOCCER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER ↗
- Who funds Kieve Wavus Education Inc ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA CARES INC ↗
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- Who funds The Side-Out Foundation ↗
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- Who funds CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL ↗
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- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Wobniar Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bethesda Cares Inc — 100% of income from government
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Squash Haven Inc — 4% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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