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Wayne G Basler Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$578k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 11
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$8.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Wayne G Basler Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$578k40%
FY20236$495k33%
FY20229$550k44%
FY202111$451k64%
FY20206$560kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$1.2MEducation$450kPhilanthropy$235kPublic Safety & Disaster$200kReligion$164kRecreation & Sports$125kHuman Services$110kFood & Nutrition$80kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
PA
CA
TN
NC
SC
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$490,00050%
The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc$300,00010%
Pat Summitt Foundation$290,0003n/a
RIZE Prevention Inc$275,000438%
K9s4cops Inc$200,000320%
Charitysmith Nonprofit Foundation$125,00024%
Nicholas D Lucchesi Mem Fund$125,0001n/a
Sunny Weather Organization$100,0001100%
Shalom House Ministries Inc$100,000118%
Emma Fila Foundation$100,000181%
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All grantees of Wayne G Basler Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$490,00050%
The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc$300,00010%
Pat Summitt Foundation$290,0003n/a
RIZE Prevention Inc$275,000438%
K9s4cops Inc$200,000320%
Charitysmith Nonprofit Foundation$125,00024%
Nicholas D Lucchesi Mem Fund$125,0001n/a
Sunny Weather Organization$100,0001100%
Shalom House Ministries Inc$100,000118%
Emma Fila Foundation$100,000181%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tn$80,00030%
Kingsport Homeless Ministry Inc$50,0001n/a
Skagit Valley College Foundation$50,00011%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$30,00010%
Recovery Soldiers Ministries$25,0001n/a
Senior Action Inc$10,00010%
Hunter's Hope Foundation Inc$10,00011%
First Presbyterian Church$1,0001n/a

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($273k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Wayne G Basler Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $490,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tennessee Foundation Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRIZE Prevention Inc: $275,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetK9s4cops Inc: $200,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetCharitysmith Nonprofit Foundation: $125,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSunny Weather Organization: $100,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetShalom House Ministries Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetEmma Fila Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 81% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tn: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSkagit Valley College Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSenior Action Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHunter's Hope Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Network for GoodDC7.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Wayne G Basler Charitable Foundation

How much does Wayne G Basler Charitable Foundation give?
Wayne G Basler Charitable Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $578,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Wayne G Basler Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (46%), Education (17%), Philanthropy (9%).
Who are Wayne G Basler Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($490k), The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc ($300k), Pat Summitt Foundation ($290k).
Does Wayne G Basler Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wayne G Basler Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wayne G Basler Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund.
Where is Wayne G Basler Charitable Foundation based?
Wayne G Basler Charitable Foundation is based in TN.

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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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