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W III Foundation Inc

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.

$522k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$653kHealth$648kPhilanthropy$369kRecreation & Sports$332kFood & Nutrition$260kPublic Benefit$125kCommunity Improvement$100kEducation$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $137k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $385k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMP QUALITY$100,000
LITERACY COALITION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$100,000
TASK FORCE DAGGER$75,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NORTHWEST INDIANA$60,000
MONTANA WARRIORS ON THE WATER$50,000
VINCEREMOS RIDING CENTER INC$47,000
FIRST SERVE$20,000
CODY DIERUF FOUNDATION$20,000
BIG SKY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$10,000
FRIENDSHIP CENTER CHICAGO$10,000
PAL'S PLACE$10,000
THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT$10,000
PALM BEACH COUNTY FOOD BANK$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $403k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NORTHWEST INDIANA: $125k → 14%PLACE OF HOPE: $150k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESOF CHICAGOLAND & NORTHWEST INDIANA: $68k → 14%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NORTHWEST INDIANA: $60k → 14%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

WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
PA
NJ
CO
KY
MD
AZ
FL
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 14 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
19

Total granted

$1.4M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+17%

Still filing today

57%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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
HealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitOther
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

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $253k · revenue +38%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $233k · revenue +329%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $170k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • GP
    GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -88%
  • PO
    PLACE OF HOPE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +30%
  • TL
    TED LINDSAY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0% · 41% of their budget
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
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
2
Parkinson's Foundation Inc

Make life better for people with parkinson's disease by improving care and advancing research toward a cure.

Health
3
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
4
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
5
Als One Inc

The organization is a partnership of world leaders in als research and care focused on expediting breakthrough treatments and ultimately a cure for als while providing resources and equipment to those living with the disease now. the team…

Health
6
Partnership for Cures

Cures Within Reach leverages the speed, safety and cost-effectiveness of testing approved therapies for new indications/diseases without effective treatment driving more treatments quicker to more patients.

Health
7
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
8
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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9
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
10
Feeding Matters Inc

Furthering advances in pediatric feeding disorders by accelerating identification, igniting research, and promoting collaborative care for children and families. feeding matters' vision is a world in which children with pediatric feeding…

Health
11
Patient Access Network Foundation

As a leading charitable foundation and healthcare advocacy organization, the pan foundation is dedicated to accelerating access to treatment for those who need it most and empowering patients on their healthcare journeys. we provide…

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12
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust; the most unlike its peers is Little Smiles Inc. 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

21 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. 21 of the 36 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
10/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $233,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INCNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $170,000 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRES…CAMP QUALITY: $150,000 · OtherCAMP QUALITYTASK FORCE DAGGER: $125,000 · OtherTASK FORCE DAGGERBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION (BSCO): $100,000 · OtherBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION (BSCO)POPCORN FOR THE PEOPLE: $100,000 · OtherPOPCORN FOR THE PEOPLEFIRST SERVE: $95,000 · OtherFIRST SERVEPAL'S PLACE: $70,000 · OtherCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONSOUTHEAST FLORIDA CHAPTER: $67,500 · OtherFRIENDSHIP CENTER CHICAGO: $50,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH: $50,000 · Other+9 more: $185,000 · Other+9 moreRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA: $252,500 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD …PLACE OF HOPE INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesPLACE OF HOPE IN…GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS: $150,000 · PhilanthropyGATES PHILANTHR…TED LINDSAY FOUNDATION: $100,007 · PhilanthropyTED LINDSAY FOU…NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $84,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILAN…UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $35,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF M…MONTANA WARRIORS ON THE WATER: $162,000 · Public BenefitCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthVinceremos Riding Center Inc: $47,000 · HealthCODY DIERUF FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthLittle Smiles Inc: $20,000 · HealthFeeding America: $50,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $35,000 · Food & NutritionPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $20,000 · Food & NutritionPalm Beach County Literacy Coalition Inc: $100,000 · EducationBIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,395,500Human Services$402,500Philanthropy$369,007Public Benefit$162,000Health$157,000Food & Nutrition$105,000Education$100,000Recreation & Sports$20,000

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 budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA: $252,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $233,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $170,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMONTANA WARRIORS ON THE WATER: $162,000 over 4y, 69% of budgetGATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLACE OF HOPE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTED LINDSAY FOUNDATION: $100,007 over 1y, 41% of budgetPalm Beach County Literacy Coalition Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $84,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVinceremos Riding Center Inc: $47,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCODY DIERUF FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS MN MINNESOTANORTH DAKOTASOUTH DAKOTA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLittle Smiles Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BIG SKY COUNTRY: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% 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.

AbbVie FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…
AbbVie FoundationIL11.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 W III Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W III Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report 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, 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.
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How do I get to W III Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to W III Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 36 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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