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Waddell Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| MARION COUNTY FED WOMENS | $25,000 |
| OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| MARION GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MLS CONSTRUCTION SERVICES | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| LIFE CARE ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| PLEASANT SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| MARION PALACE THEATRE | $5,000 |
| GREEN CAMP SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| MARION SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| CALEDONIA SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| NEW VISION SENIOR GROUP | $5,000 |
| PROSPECT SENIOR CENTER | $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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- OHOHIO HISTORY CONNECTION8× · 2018–2025 · $395k · revenue +18%
- MGMarion General Hospital Foundation Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +84%
- LALIFECARE ALLIANCE6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- MCMARION COUNTY FAMILY COURTone grant, 2021 · $25k
- CCCOMMUNITY COUNSELING AND WELLNESS CENTERS INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -42%
- MCMARION COUNTY LAND REUTILIZATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
Promote history of marion iowa
Promoting growth and expansion of jobs and community benefits for marion city & county
Services for the elderly
To emphasize the spiritual, mental, physical and social well-being of the senior citizens of marion county.
The mission of the Marion County Humane Society is to provide shelter for abandoned, abused, neglected and home-less animals to work with our rescued animals until we can find forever loving homes for them and to work within the community…
To provide transportation, information, referral, training, meals, personal care and other services for the senior citizens in marion county.
The milwaukee county historical society was founded in 1935 to collect, preserve, and make available materials relating to the history of the milwaukee community.
The lorain county historical society collects, preserves, and shares the history of lorain county, ohio to educate and inspire present and future generations.
Preservation, restoration and acquisition of historical sites and artifacts located and relating to the history of monroe county and promote local history.
To benefit and support morrow county hospital and ohiohealth
The mission of aohc is to provide exceptional service to its members and to advance the mission of public health to prevent, promote and protect the health of the community by developing and maintaining strong local public health…
Care of approximately 261 aged and handicapped persons. services include medical, nutritional, recreational, and therapeutical.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family & Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is River Valley Music Boosters Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 26 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 OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Marion General Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFECARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNSELING AND WELLNESS CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MARION COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MARION CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER VALLEY MUSIC BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES 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: Marion Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Waddell 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.
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