· Private foundation
Thomas a Wendt Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHAPEL | $160,000 |
| ST MATTHEW'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $20,000 |
| FEED MORE WNY | $20,000 |
| ST LUKES | $20,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| JERICHO ROAD COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE BROTHERS OF MERCY | $10,000 |
| BUFFALO CITY MISSION | $10,000 |
| KEVINS GUEST HOUSE | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS | $10,000 |
| SONRAY MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| SUMMIT CTR | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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 +9% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +39%- KGKEVIN GUEST HOUSE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +22%
THE SUMMIT CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- SMST MATTHEW LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $8k
- HPHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE BUFFALO INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -1%
- GFGRAMEEN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
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…
To care for the physical and spiritual needs of the sick in their own homes at no charge.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Mercy home provides essential services for children and adults with developmental disabilities. mercy home's mission is to ensure the quality of life for persons with developmental disabilities through the recognition of each person's…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
In 2005, medical missions outreach began pointing others to the great physician through an annual medical missions trip to the developing world by partnering with local churches to reach their communities with the gospel. now more than 20…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice & Palliative Care Buffalo Inc and the most unlike its peers is Historical Society of the Tonawandas Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 35 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KEVIN GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS OF MERCY HOLDING INC ↗
- Who funds SONRAYS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAST CELL DISEASE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILIESCN2A FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LET THEM LOL INC ↗
- Who funds IMMUNE DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE TONAWANDAS INC ↗
- Who funds MADONNA OF THE STREETS INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · William & Diane Hein Foundation · E&W G Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good
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 Thomas a Wendt Family 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.
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.