· Private foundation
Vern and Loma Wegerer Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friendship Manor | $21,800 |
| Jordan Catholic School | $10,000 |
| St Leo's Catholic Church | $5,500 |
| Saint Pius X | $4,470 |
| Catholic Diocese of Peoria | $825 |
| St Vincent Depaul | $375 |
| Franciscan Sisters of John the Bapt | $300 |
| Knights of Columbus | $136 |
| American Legion | $93 |
| Moline Public Library | $50 |
| K-State Alumni | $50 |
| Divine Mercy | $50 |
| Alleman High School | $50 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45 |
| EM Optimist Club | $45 |
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 (FY17–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
23 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FMFRIENDSHIP MANOR INC8× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +30%
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $16k · revenue +107%
- PRPREGNANCY RESOURCES6× · 2017–2022 · $1k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- SMSt Marys Churchone grant, 2022 · $1k
- WBWILLIAM BUTTERWORTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +94%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $225
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.
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,…
Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The american neuromuscular foundation was established to improve the quality of care for people with disorders of skeletal muscle, neuromuscular function, and central and peripheral nervous systems through the promotion of research and…
Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Advancing medicine through excellence in the science, education and professional practice of medical physics. the mission is carried out through driving scientific and clinical innovation in medical physics to improve human health,…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 53 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.
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: Moline Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vern and Loma Wegerer Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vern and Loma Wegerer Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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