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The Wrede Foundation at a glance

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The Wrede 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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$210kArts & Culture$190kHealth$50kAnimals$40kInternational$25kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,052,897
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND$2,052,897
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $10k → 16%MIQUON SCHOOL: $50k → 7%HEALTHY NETWORKS: $15k → 10%RUSELL BYERS CHARTER SCH FD: $20k → 22%MERCY FOR ANIMALS: $20k → 14%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $5k → 17%HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $5k → 16%THE MIQUON SCHOOL: $50k → 7%HEALTHY NETWORKS: $10k → 10%FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $20k → 22%MERCY FOR ANIMALS: $20k → 14%MIQUON SCHOOL: $50k → 7%HEALTHY NEWSWORKS: $10k → 10%FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $20k → 22%INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $20k → 14%THE MIQUON SCHOOL: $25k → 7%HEALTHY NETWORKS: $10k → 10%THE BYERS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $20k → 22%BREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $5k → 22%CHESHIRE LAW GROUP: $5k → 22%FREE LIBRARY OF PHILA FDN: $25k → 22%FREE LIBRARY OF PHILA FDN: $25k → 22%WHYY INC: $25k → 22%WHYY: $20k → 22%WHYY: $20k → 22%WHYY: $20k → 22%WHYY INC: $15k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$465k · 7 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$465k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+67%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalArts & CultureAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TM
    THE MIQUON SCHOOL
    4× · 2019–2024 · $175k · revenue +19%
  • WHYY INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +27%
  • Healthy NewsWorks
    4× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • IM
    INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +7%
  • RB
    RUSELL BYERS CHARTER SCH FD
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • BF
    BYERSCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +62%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
2
The Montessori School

The Montessori School educates children from 18 months-6th grade. Our program is rooted in the educational philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori faithful to her method. In our caring environment, sustained by freedom peace, the school…

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3
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
4
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
5
Food and Environment Reporting Network Inc

Fern seeks to make the food system more sustainable and equitable through powerful journalism and storytelling.

Food & Nutrition
6
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
7
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
8
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
9
Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science Inc

The purpose of the school is to promote, advance and sponsor charitable and educational activities.

Education
10
Foundations Inc

Foundations is dedicated to improving the quality of education for our nation's most vulnerable children by strengthening the skills of educators through professional learning. foundations, inc. is a not-for-profit educational service…

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11
The Public School of Germantown

Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…

Education
12
Wnet

Wnet is a multi-media public service non-profit that delivers lifelong learning and meaningful experiences to our communities. our content inspires curiosity, encourages action and nurtures dreams.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND: $2,052,897 · OtherFIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND+6 more: $175,000 · Other+6 moreTHE MIQUON SCHOOL: $175,000 · EducationBYERSCHOOL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationWHYY INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $40,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $20,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 · International
Other$2,227,897Education$200,000Arts & Culture$100,000Animals$40,000International$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MIQUON SCHOOL: $175,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetWHYY INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHealthy NewsWorks: $45,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBYERSCHOOL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Wrede Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wrede Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Wrede Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Wrede 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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