· Private foundation
Thomas a Wendt Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHAPEL | $160,000 |
| FEED MORE WNY | $20,000 |
| ST MATTHEW'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $20,000 |
| ST LUKES | $20,000 |
| THE BROTHERS OF MERCY | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| BUFFALO CITY MISSION | $10,000 |
| KEVINS GUEST HOUSE | $10,000 |
| EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| JERICHO ROAD COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS | $10,000 |
| SONRAY MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- IDIMMUNE DEFICIENCY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +2%
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.
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.
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,…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 BROTHERS OF MERCY HOLDING INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
- Who funds SONRAYS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAST CELL DISEASE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds IMMUNE DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LET THEM LOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILIESCN2A FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE TONAWANDAS INC ↗
- Who funds MADONNA OF THE STREETS INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomas a Wendt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas a Wendt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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