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Wade Family Foundation

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.

$95k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$932kAnimals$597kReligion$334kEnvironment$100kFood & Nutrition$85kRecreation & Sports$50kPhilanthropy$48kPublic Safety & Disaster$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER INC$50,000
K9'S FOR WARRIORS$30,000
BO'S HEAVENLY CLUBHOUSE$10,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY$5,120
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 (FY19–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BO'S HEAVENLY CLUBHOUSE: $10k → 9%THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $1k → 16%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 20% of Wade Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in WY; by stated purpose, 77%.

Wade Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 11 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +101% since the first grant, against -13% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
4

Total granted

$2.0M
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+101%
-13%

Still filing today

64%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TS
    TETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $801k · revenue +37%
  • AA
    Animal Adoption Center Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $477k · revenue +101%
  • JH
    Jackson Hole Community School
    4× · 2017–2020 · $131k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • YP
    YELLOWSTONE PARK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • TR
    TETON RAPTOR CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -13%
  • FR
    FamilyPoint Resourcesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +83%
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
Humane Society of Southern Arizona

To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.

Animals
2
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
3
Idaho Humane Society Inc

The mission of the Idaho Humane Society (IHS) is to advocate for the welfare and responsible care of animals, protect them from neglect and cruelty, and promote humane education, awareness and compassion for all living creatures.

Animals
4
Animal Humane Society Veterinary Centers Pc

Provide wellness and spay/neuter services at reduced cost for people in need.

Community Improvement
5
Houston Pets Alive

Houston Pets Alive!s (HPA!) mission is to save the lives of at-risk companion cats and dogs and find them loving homes.

Animals
6
Animal Humane Society

Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…

Animals
7
Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society Inc

To support animals, save lives, and spread compassion.

Animals
8
Humane Society of the South Platte Valley Inc

HSSPV's mission is to be a leader in saving lives and serving communities by providing innovative care for animals, finding loving homes and reuniting families.

Animals
9
Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region

To offer compassionate care to animals, support safe communities, and provide socially conscious sheltering. (continued on schedule o)

Animals
10
Windham County Humane Society

Windham County Humane Society is dedicated to ensuring the safety and well being of animals, as well as enhancing the relationship between individuals and pets through adoption, education, advocacy, compassion and promotion of animal…

Animals
11
Cache Humane Society

Cache Humane Society is committed to rescuing, rehabilitating and rehoming animals in need, reducing pet homelessness through education, advocacy, and affordable veterinary services, and inspiring our community to provide and support…

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12
Wisconsin Humane Society

The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole; the most unlike its peers is Jackson Hole Community School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INC: $800,600 · EnvironmentTETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INCYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $100,000 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE FOREVERAnimal Adoption Center Inc: $477,160 · AnimalsAnimal Adoption Center IncCitizens For Animal Protection Inc: $30,000 · AnimalsCitizens For Animal Protecti…K9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $30,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC+1 more: $10,000 · AnimalsST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $334,000 · OtherST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHYELLOWSTONE PARK FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherYELLOWSTONE PARK FOUNDATIO…TETON RAPTOR CENTER: $50,000 · OtherTETON RAPTOR CENTERTETON COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE: $33,306 · OtherTETON COUNTY SEARCH AND RE…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY INC: $25,120 · OtherLEAD: $17,000 · OtherJackson Hole Community School: $131,000 · EducationHole Food Rescue: $85,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $23,000 · PhilanthropyBO WILLIAM HARTWIG FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $1,000 · Human ServicesFamilyPoint Resources: $1,000 · Health
Environment$900,600Animals$547,160Other$509,426Education$131,000Food & Nutrition$85,000Philanthropy$23,000Human Services$11,000Health$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INC: $800,600 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetAnimal Adoption Center Inc: $477,160 over 8y, 14% of budgetJackson Hole Community School: $131,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHole Food Rescue: $85,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetTETON RAPTOR CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCitizens For Animal Protection Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBO WILLIAM HARTWIG FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetFamilyPoint Resources: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Brooks FoundationCommunity Foundation …Greater Houston Commu…William E Weiss Found…The Andrew Allen Char…The Ayco Charitable F…Shell USA Company Fou…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Natl Christian Charit…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…
The Brooks FoundationWY20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Brooks Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Greater Houston Community Foundation · William E Weiss Foundation Inc · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Wade Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wade Family Foundation 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 18 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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