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Wdg Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA LINE DANCE ASSOCIATION O | $4,000 |
| CHINESE HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| CHINESE NEWCOMERS SERVICE CENTER | $3,000 |
| PVA | $2,700 |
| ON LOK | $2,500 |
| AACI | $2,500 |
| TAI CHI YUEN FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SORRISAR DENTAL HEALTH INC | $2,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO CHINATOWN LIONS CLUB | $2,000 |
| SELF HELP OF ELDERLY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| CHINATOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CEN | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND | $1,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $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 (FY18–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- CHCHINESE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION6× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +15%
- TATHE ASIAN AMERICANS FOR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $16k · revenue +133%
- OLON LOK INC6× · 2018–2024 · $15k · revenue +218%
Funded once
- GJGORDON J LAU ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $5k
Working Partnerships USAone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -49%- GNGORDON N CHAN COMMUNITY SERVICES CEone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cityteam Ministries and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Guzheng Music 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 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 74 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 CALIFORNIA LINE DANCE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Chinese Newcomers Service Center ↗
- Who funds CHINESE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASIAN AMERICANS FOR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ON LOK INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CHINATOWN LIONS CLUB ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Harper For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND EMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SONRISAS DENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds Working Partnerships USA ↗
- Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
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: United Way of the Bay Area · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Pov & May Tov Family Foundation · Robert J Louie Memorial Fund · San Francisco Association of Realtors Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Wdg 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.