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The Wutz Family Foundation at a glance

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The Wutz 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.

$152k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$210kEducation$118kAnimals$118kReligion$73kRecreation & Sports$42kHealth$30kEnvironment$16kInternational$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$50,000
BUFFALO SUZUKI STRINGS$25,000
HUDSON MONTESSORI SCHOOL$20,000
SUN SHEN FOUNDATION$15,000
SAFE HARBOR LAB RESCUE$10,000
PAWS & CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$5,000
LABRADOR RESCUERS OF SAN DIEGO$5,000
KEARSARGE AREA COUNCIL ON AGING$5,000
HUI NO'EAU VISUAL ARTS CENTER$5,000
WESTERN RESERVE SUZUKI STRINGS$5,000
LAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION$1,000
AUSBON SARGENT PRESERVATION LAND TRUST$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%KEARSARGE AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $5k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
OH
CT
CA
CO
AZ
NM
HI
GA
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 13 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +56% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$1.2M
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+56%

Still filing today

54%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalReligionOther
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

  • BS
    Buffalo Suzuki Strings Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $200k · revenue +8%
  • SH
    SAFE HARBOR LAB RESCUE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +103%
  • FF
    FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • WA
    WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +9%
  • WR
    WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +56%
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
3
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
4
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
5
West Shore Wildlife Center

To inspire coexistence between humans and wildlife.

Animals
6
Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment
7
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
8
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
9
Audubon Canyon Ranch Inc

Connecting nature, people, and science for a more resilient world.

Environment
10
Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).

Environment
11
Shasta Land Trust

Conserve the beauty, character, and diversity of significant lands in far northern california. currently shasta land trust holds conservation easements that permanently protect about 66,000 acres of land.

Environment
12
Sky Island Alliance

We work to connect people, wildlife, and lands across the u.s.-mexico border through the use of science, advocacy, educational activities, community engagement, and on-the-ground conservation initiatives. our main activities include…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fieldstone Farm Therapeutic Riding Center; the most unlike its peers is World Animal Protection. 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

22 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. 22 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $625,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHUDSON MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $80,000 · OtherHUDSON MONTESSORI SCHOOLSUN SHEN FOUNDATION: $65,000 · OtherSUN SHEN FOUNDATIONWESTERN RESERVE SUZUKI STRINGS: $40,000 · OtherFIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $30,000 · Other+9 more: $49,500 · Other+9 moreBuffalo Suzuki Strings Inc: $200,000 · Arts & CultureBuffalo Suzuki Str…+2 more: $6,000 · Arts & CultureSAFE HARBOR LAB RESCUE: $75,000 · AnimalsPAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 · AnimalsWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION: $5,000 · Animals+1 more: $2,500 · AnimalsHUDSON COUNTRY MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $28,000 · EducationWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationAUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST: $8,000 · EnvironmentLAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $8,000 · EnvironmentInternational Qeros Foundation: $5,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $2,500 · InternationalASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$889,500Arts & Culture$206,000Animals$92,500Education$38,000Environment$16,000International$7,500Philanthropy$6,000

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 budgetBuffalo Suzuki Strings Inc: $200,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetSAFE HARBOR LAB RESCUE: $75,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetFIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $30,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHUDSON COUNTRY MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $28,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST: $8,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $8,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEARSARGE AREA COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUI NO'EAU: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WHIDBEY INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOLF FORE AFRICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST WISDOM INC: $1,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFoothills Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Ayco Charitable F…New Hampshire Charita…Boston Foundation IncMorgan Stanley Global…Baird Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…Raymond James Charita…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY14.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Wutz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wutz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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 · 0–20%
    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.

    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 30 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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