Tennessee · Public charity
Wayne M Wise Wellness Fund Inc
The organization's mission is to raise funds and then donate those funds to charities which promote health, wellness, healing and research of deadly diseases.
- $197k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $165k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 15
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $313k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Wayne M Wise Wellness Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $165k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $243k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $60k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $240k | 92% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $60k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $25k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $200,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Bridges of Williamson County | $127,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Room in the Inn Inc | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Easter Seals Dupage & the Fox Valley Region | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Survivor Fitness Foundation | $25,248 | 2 | 6% |
| Father Ryan High School | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Big Brothersbig Sisters of Middle Tn | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wayne M Wise Wellness Fund Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Enchiridion Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation · Tennessee Titans Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation
How this is measured
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About Wayne M Wise Wellness Fund Inc
- How much does Wayne M Wise Wellness Fund Inc give?
- Wayne M Wise Wellness Fund Inc reported 12 itemized grants totaling $164,500, out of $197,150 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Wayne M Wise Wellness Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (69%), Human Services (9%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are Wayne M Wise Wellness Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: National Multiple Sclerosis Society ($200k), Bridges of Williamson County ($127k), Vanderbilt University Medical Center ($75k).
- Does Wayne M Wise Wellness Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wayne M Wise Wellness Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hca Healthcare Foundation, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
- Where is Wayne M Wise Wellness Fund Inc based?
- Wayne M Wise Wellness Fund Inc is based in TN.
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