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Wakefield 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POLK COUNTY K9 ASSOCIATION | $16,000 |
| HOOFBEATS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| GUILD | $10,000 |
| ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| POLK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| NATURAL BRIDGE APPALACHIAN TRAIL CLUB | $3,000 |
| WE CAN RIDE INC | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHESSIE TRAIL | $2,000 |
| BLAKE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 12 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- GGuild9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +18%
- AHAnimal Humane Society9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +28%
- HTHOOFBEATS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC3× · 2023–2025 · $28k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- NFNew Freedom Farm Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -45%
- SMST MARTINS BY-THE-LAKE CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $4k
- RAROCKBRIDGE AREA FREE CLINIC INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +49%
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.
Provide wellness and spay/neuter services at reduced cost for people in need.
At United Hospital District, we exist to provide and promote appropriate health care services to the communities we serve, doing so in a safe and healing environment which supports our patient-centered care philosophy.
Glencoe regional health services exists to improve every life by offering high-quality, safe, and accessible healthcare. we are dedicated to strengthening healthcare by connecting our communities, enhancing the patient experience,…
The mission of lakewood health system is to provide quality, personalized healthcare for a lifetime.
To inspire, recognize, and empower the caregiver in all of us.
Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…
Caring for friends and neighbors, kittson memorial healthcare center provides and cooperates with others to ensure that residents have access to services necessary to maintain their health and well-being.
Ely-bloomenson community hospital is committed to caring for and enhancing the health and well-being of the community it serves.
Osmond general hospital is committed to providing patient centered, high-quality healthcare in a cost effective and safe manner.
Delivering community-based care that provides peace of mind, quality of life and independence.
Connecting animals in need with people who care.
Provide recreational and therapeutic riding on horseback for about 120 people with disabilities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hoofbeats Therapeutic Riding Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Polk County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 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. 20 of the 30 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 ORONO FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Guild ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds HOOFBEATS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC GREATER TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALWAYS B SMILING INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POLK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds POLK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds New Freedom Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKBRIDGE AREA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds WE CAN RIDE INC ↗
- Who funds 8 TO A LAMP ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS ARTS AND CRAFTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Ride With Pride Inc ↗
- Who funds GLASGOW VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Wakefield Family 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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