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Wessner Foundation Co Jerry D Jones

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$546k
Granted FY2017
10
Grants FY2017
9
Organizations funded FY2017
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100% of Wessner Foundation Co Jerry D Jones’s FY2018 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Wessner Foundation Co Jerry D Jones named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $546k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’17
0
’18

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2017
$54,750
Largest grant, FY2017
$95,000
States reached, FY2017
5
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Philanthropy$10MReligion$230kEducation$128kHuman Services$80kArts & Culture$79kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Development Assoc International$95,0001n/a
Koinonia House National Ministries Inc$80,0001n/a
The Navigators$78,5001n/a
Anselm House$50,000110%
The King's College$50,00010%
Shelter Ministries Inc$15,00017%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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Find your warmest path to Wessner Foundation Co Jerry D Jones through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Wessner Foundation Co Jerry D Jones

How much does Wessner Foundation Co Jerry D Jones give?
Wessner Foundation Co Jerry D Jones reported 10 grants totaling $546,375 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Wessner Foundation Co Jerry D Jones fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Philanthropy (95%), Religion (2%), Education (1%).
Who are Wessner Foundation Co Jerry D Jones's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Development Assoc International ($95k), Koinonia House National Ministries Inc ($80k), The Navigators ($79k).
Does Wessner Foundation Co Jerry D Jones accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wessner Foundation Co Jerry D Jones?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Wessner Foundation Co Jerry D Jones based?
Wessner Foundation Co Jerry D Jones is based in IL.

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 11 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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