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Wehling Family Charitable Foundation Inc
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of WEHLING FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAUREL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| FINISTERRE VISION | $3,000 |
| MAYSVILLE ROTARY CLUB | $1,500 |
| BROOKSVILLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $1,500 |
| ARTS WAVE | $1,000 |
| AUGUSTA COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,000 |
| CARTER CENTER | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| DENISON UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| PLEASANT VALLEY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $750 |
| IGLESIA CRISTIANA GETSEMANI | $500 |
| CHRIST THE KING EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $500 |
| SNOW LEOPARD TRUST | $500 |
| VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
| VERMILLION AREA FARMER'S MARKET | $500 |
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 (FY22–23, $600) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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 +19% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- DUDENISON UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +17%
- FVFINISTERRE VISION5× · 2018–2025 · $12k · revenue +114%
- CICincinnati Institute of Fine Arts8× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- WHWYOMING HIGH SCHOOL RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2024 · $5k
- CSCINCINNATI-KHARKIV SISTER CITIES PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $3k
- BCBRACKEN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $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.
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Our Mission: Arc of Appalachia protects the rich diversity of life within North America's Great Eastern Forest. Our Work: We acquire and steward wildlands in the Appalachian heartland. We create sanctuaries where people can connect with…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
Land Use Issues
The council is organized to foster partnerships for clean water, healthy streams, and abundant fisheries in the Clackamas Watershed
To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.
To assist in the development implementation and maintenance of coordinated resource management that will enhance the natural resources business and social relationships of the McKenzie Sub-basin.
To create equitable access to nature in all communities and inspire a diverse new generation of environmental leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is McKenzie River Trust and the most unlike its peers is Save America's Forests Inc. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 75 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 DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FINISTERRE VISION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA COLLEGE ECHO HALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds REFORM AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Valdosta State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMON SENSE MEDIA ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Village Life Outreach Project Inc ↗
- Who funds COAST RANGE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASCADIA WILDLANDS ↗
- Who funds SPRINKLES OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds McKenzie River Trust ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST ↗
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 Oregon Community Foundation · The Suwinski Family Foundation Inc · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Wehling Family Charitable Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- McKenzie River Trust — 8% of income from government
- Bring Recycling — 7% of income from government
- Mount Pisgah Arboretum — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild — 2% 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.
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