· Private foundation
Waddell Foundation
Its FY2026 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $118k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARION COUNTY FED WOMENS | $35,800 |
| LIFE CARE ALLIANCE | $27,500 |
| MARION GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| MARION PALACE THEATRE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NEW VISION SENIOR GROUP | $5,000 |
| MARION SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| CALEDONIA SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| PROSPECT SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| GREEN CAMP SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| PLEASANT SENIOR CENTER | $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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +18% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2026, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OHOHIO HISTORY CONNECTION9× · 2018–2026 · $410k · revenue +18%
- MGMarion General Hospital Foundation Inc7× · 2020–2026 · $140k · revenue +84%
- LALIFECARE ALLIANCE7× · 2020–2026 · $88k · 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
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.
Promote history of marion iowa
Services for the elderly
Promoting growth and expansion of jobs and community benefits for marion city & county
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.
Care of approximately 261 aged and handicapped persons. services include medical, nutritional, recreational, and therapeutical.
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…
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
Manage the Marshall County Historical Museum
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 ↗
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: Marion Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Waddell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waddell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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