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Wayne Gretzky Foundation USA at a glance

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Wayne Gretzky Foundation USA

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$142k
Granted FY2021
17
Grants FY2021
9
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$149kRecreation & Sports$56kAnimals$35kHuman Services$33kEducation$29kYouth Development$28kPublic Benefit$10kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2021 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k10 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $98k
$7,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KOOTENAI YOUTH RECREATION ORGANIZATION INC$25,000
NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND$20,000
PROJECT OPPORTUNITY - HAWTHORNE FORCE YOUTH ICE HOCKEY PROGRAM$12,500
THE CHASE FOUNDATION$10,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$10,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$10,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$10,000
SPECTRUM ON ICE$7,500
BEL13VE IN MIRACLES FOUNDATION$7,500
HELP CALIFORNIA CONDORS CO MARTIN SEIDEN$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$5,000
VILLAGE FOR VETS$5,000
K9S FOR WARRIORS$3,300
PETS FOR PATRIOTS INC$3,300
PAWS OF WAR$3,300
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BEL13VE IN MIRACLES FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%BEL13VE IN MIRACLES FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL - LEGACY GALA SPONSORSHIP: $9k → 10%TGR FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%PROJECT OPPORTUNITY - HAWTHORNE FORCE YOUTH ICE HOCKEY PROGRAM: $13k → 14%PETS FOR PATRIOTS INC: $3k → 6%PAWS OF WAR: $3k → 7%TUNNEL TO TOWERS: $10k → 11%NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND: $20k → 14%CONSUMING KINETICS DANCE COMPANY: $2k → 21%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $5k → 17%BIRDIES FOR BUDDIES: $3k → 15%MARINE CORPS RESERVE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 6%SPECTRUM ON ICE: $8k → 13%BEL13VE IN MIRACLES FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%PROJECT OPPORTUNITY - HAWTHORNE FORCE YOUTH ICE HOCKEY PROGRAM: $5k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $5k → 17%MARINE CORPS RESERVE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 6%BEL13VE IN MIRACLES FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%PROJECT OPPORTUNITY - HAWTHORNE FORCE YOUTH ICE HOCKEY PROGRAM: $5k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $5k → 17%BEL13VE IN MIRACLES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PROJECT OPPORTUNITY - HAWTHORNE FORCE YOUTH ICE HOCKEY PROGRAM: $3k → 14%ST JUDE CHRILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $5k → 17%PROJECT OPPORTUNITY: $3k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $3k → 17%HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $3k → 14%HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER: $1k → 14%HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $1k → 14%HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $1k → 14%HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $1k → 14%HEART OF LOS ANGELES: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%THE CHASE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $8k → 14%HELP CALIFORNIA CONDORS CO MARTIN SEIDEN: $8k → 14%HELP CALIFORNIA CONDORS CO MARTIN SEIDEN: $8k → 14%HELP CALIFORNIA CONDORS CO MARTIN SEIDEN: $5k → 14%VILLAGE FOR VETS: $5k → 14%HELP CALIFORNIA CONDORS CO MARTIN SEIDEN: $5k → 14%VILLAGE FOR VETS: $3k → 14%TRUE COMPETITORS INC: $5k → 14%CALIFORNIA CONDORS: $8k → 14%LA KINGS (6 KINGS CAMP 2017 REGISTRATIONS): $4k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
NV
IN
OH
CA
MO
VA
KS
TN
DC
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$248k · 10 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$248k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+62%

Still filing today

70%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthAnimalsEducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    5× · 2017–2021 · $48k · revenue +78%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $23k · revenue +145%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $20k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • TW
    TIGER WOODS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +102%
  • OC
    OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL - LEGACY GALA SPONSORSHIP
    one grant, 2018 · $9k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
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
Prostate Cancer Foundation

The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…

Philanthropy
2
Pets for Vets Inc

Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…

Public Benefit
3
K9S for Warriors Research Institute Inc

Research and advocacy for veterans with post-traumatic stress and the prevention of veteran suicide.

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4
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
5
Northwest Battle Buddies

To empower combat veterans with ptsd to regain their freedom and independence by partnering them with professionally trained and specifically matched service dogs at no charge to serve those who have served us all.

Human Services
6
Packages From Home

To send care and comfort packages to deployed american military heroes who are stationed in active duty theaters around the world, as well as to facilitate activities that elevate morale of all veterans

Philanthropy
7
Warrior Canine Connection Inc

Support recovering combat veterans & their families utilizing service dog training/placement.

Human Services
8
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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9
It's About the Warriors Foundation

To assist and empower all post 9/11 veterans and their families from the tri-state area, regardless if they have been wounded or have been deployed, with our various programs thus, leading them to a successful and enriched life.

Public Benefit
10
Paws for Purple Hearts

Paws for Purple Hearts improves the lives of America's Warriors facing mobility challenges and trauma-related conditions such as PTSD and TBI by providing the highest quality assistance dogs and canine-assisted therapeutic programs; and by…

Public Benefit
11
K9 Hurricane's Heroes Inc

K9 hurricane's heroes, a federally recognized, non-profit organization, provides "retired law enforcement and military dogs" with subsidized veterinary care so they can live a long and healthy life. often these incredible dogs are the…

Animals
12
Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

The parker institute for cancer immunotherapy's (pici) mission is to accelerate the development of breakthrough immune therapies to turn all cancers into curable diseases.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pack Dance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KOOTENAI YOUTH RECREATION ORGANIZATION INC: $45,000 · OtherKOOTENAI YOUTH RECREATION ORGANIZATION INCPROJECT OPPORTUNITY - HAWTHORNE FORCE YOUTH ICE HOCKEY PROGRAM: $25,500 · OtherPROJECT OPPORTUNITY - HAWTHORNE FORCE YOUTH ICE H…HELP CALIFORNIA CONDORS CO MARTIN SEIDEN: $25,000 · OtherHELP CALIFORNIA CONDORS CO MARTIN SEIDENMARINE CORPS RESERVE ASSOCIATION INC: $13,000 · OtherMARINE CORPS RESERVE ASSOCIATION INCOAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL - LEGACY GALA SPONSORSHIP: $9,000 · OtherOAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL - LEGACY GALA SPONSORSHIPIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherSPECTRUM ON ICE: $7,500 · OtherHIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANC: $6,500 · Other+4 more: $13,375 · Other+4 moreChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $47,500 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los AngelesJACK JABLONSKI BELIEVE IN MIRACLES FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthJACK JABLONSKI BELIEVE IN MIRACLES FOU…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $22,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL I…THE CHASE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthTHE CHASE FOUNDATION+1 more: $2,500 · HealthNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTIGER WOODS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationVILLAGE FOR VETS: $7,500 · Public BenefitPROJECT OPPORTUNITY: $2,500 · Public BenefitPAWS OF WAR INC: $3,300 · AnimalsPETS FOR PATRIOTS INC: $3,300 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $3,300 · Animals
Other$152,375Health$117,500Housing & Shelter$20,000Human Services$20,000Education$20,000Public Benefit$10,000Animals$9,900

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $47,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJACK JABLONSKI BELIEVE IN MIRACLES FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTIGER WOODS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHASE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE FOR VETS: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS OF WAR INC: $3,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPETS FOR PATRIOTS INC: $3,300 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $3,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRDIES FOR BUDDIES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACK DANCE: $2,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

California Community …American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wayne Gretzky Foundation USA funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wayne Gretzky Foundation USA. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 26 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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