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The Wurst Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Religion$103kHealth$17kHuman Services$15kEducation$11kYouth Development$11kFood & Nutrition$9kPhilanthropy$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$588k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST FRANCIS DE SALES PARISH$15,500
ST ISIDORES CATHOLIC STUDENT CENTER$3,500
THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION$2,500
THE SALVATION ARMY$2,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$2,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$2,000
FR FLANAGAN'S BOYS HOME$2,000
CAL FARLEY'S$2,000
LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$1,000
TUNNEL FOR TOWERS FOUNDATION$1,000
THE SHACK$1,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
LAMAR AREA HOSPICE ASSOCIATION$1,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLORADO$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER INC: $500 → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PUEBLO: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WI
NY
WY
IA
CO
NE
MO
KS
TN
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$154k · 14 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
12

Total granted

$154k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
-24%

Still filing today

43%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationReligionOther

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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +78%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +23%
  • KS
    KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $5k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • DO
    DIOCESE OF PUEBLO
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • KS
    KANSAS STATE NEWMAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -75%
  • ST
    ST THOMAS MORE PARISH MANHATTAN INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
2
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
The Children's Mercy Hospital

Children's Mercy is a leading independent children's health organization dedicated to holistic care, translational research, breakthrough innovation, and educating the next generation of caregivers. Together, we transform the health,…

Health
5
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
6
University Medical Center Inc

To provide care to our community and to serve as a major teaching hospital for education and training in medicine, dentistry, nursing, and allied health professions.

Health
7
City of Hope National Medical Center

City of Hope National Medical Center's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
8
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
9
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

10
Solving Kids' Cancer Inc

Skc impacts children through the initiation of clinical research trials of investigative treatment strategies. our vision is to continue expanding the armamentarium of effective and less toxic treartment strategies for pediatric…

Health
11
Johns Hopkins All Children's Foundation Inc

Johns hopkins all children's foundation, inc. supports the mission of johns hopkins all children's hospital, inc., all children's health system, inc., all children's research institute, inc. and other 501(c)(3) organizations through…

Health
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Shack. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 33 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST FRANCIS DE SALES PARISH — $67,250 · OtherST FRANCIS DE SALES PARISHIndividual grant recipient — $22,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE SALVATION ARMY — $9,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYCAL FARLEY'S — $9,000 · OtherCAL FARLEY'SFR FLANAGAN'S BOYS HOME — $8,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF PUEBLO — $5,200 · Other+18 more — $29,900 · Other+18 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $8,100 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLORADO — $4,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $7,500 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PUEBLO INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER — $500 · Human ServicesKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $4,800 · EducationTHE SHACK — $3,000 · Religion
Other$151,100Health$13,100Human Services$10,000Education$4,800Religion$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $8,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS STATE NEWMAN FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $4,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLORADO — $4,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHACK — $3,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetLAMAR AREA HOSPICE ASSOCIATION — $2,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PUEBLO INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds KANSAS STATE NEWMAN FOUNDATION
  • Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLORADO
  • Who funds THE SHACK
  • Who funds LAMAR AREA HOSPICE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PUEBLO INC
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER

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.

Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL9.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Wurst 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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