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Wetherington Foundation Inc at a glance

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Wetherington Foundation Inc

To empower "at risk" citizens who have the desire and willingness to find a way out of poverty and become self-reliant to have quality of life.

$242k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$421kHealth$235kReligion$193kPublic Safety & Disaster$80kPhilanthropy$70kHuman Services$45kEducation$40kCommunity Improvement$27kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $210k
$11,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC$110,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES$100,000
CROSSINGS ADDICTION SERVICES INC AKA THE CROSSINGS SERVICES$11,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC$10,000
THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF SARASOTA INC$10,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SISTERHOOD FOR GOOD INC: $5k → 10%SARASOTA FAMILY YMCA INC: $10k → 9%SARASOTA FAMILY YMCA INC: $5k → 9%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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$911k · 8 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$911k
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+32%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $386k · revenue +164%
  • SM
    SARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $195k · revenue +192%
  • TC
    THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF SARASOTA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • KO
    KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $27k · revenue +9%
  • DE
    DON'T EVER GIVE UP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $23k · revenue +99%
  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MANATEE COUNTYINC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -7%
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
Sarasota City Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
2
Rotary Club of Sarasota Foundation Inc

The foundation's mission is to help the rotary club of sarasota build a better community and world through humanitarian, educational and other charitable endeavors.

Philanthropy
3
Sarasota County Croquet Club Inc

The corporation is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, including for such purposes, (i) the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the internal…

Recreation & Sports
4
Suncoast Charities for Children Inc

Suncoast charities for children is a 501(c)(3)organization that provides direct financial support to several local non-profit agencies offering programs and services to children, teen and adults with special needs throughout sarasota,…

Housing & Shelter
5
Sarasota High School Aice Boosters Incorporated
Education
6
The State College of Florida Foundation Inc

The foundation is organized to provide charitable and educational aid to state college of florida, manatee-sarasota and its students.

Education
7
Manatee Community Foundation Inc

Manatee community foundation partners with our citizens to strengthen and enhance our community through philanthropy, education, and service-now and forever.

Philanthropy
8
The South Florida Charity Classic
Human Services
9
Education Foundation of Sarasota County

To enhance the potential of students, promote excellence in teaching, and inspire innovation in education, guided by strategic philanthropy.

Education
10
Sarasota Kiwanis Foundation Inc

To support such worthy projects for youth and the elderly as in the opinion of the trustees shall be deserving of such assistance.

Community Improvement
11
The Saluda Charitable Foundation Inc
International
12
Sarasota Chinese Academy Inc

To educate students on chinese culture

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Sarasota and Desoto Counties Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Oscar Scherer State Park Inc. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 15 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $386,253 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESO…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO …+1 more: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentHARVEST TABERNACLE OF SARASOTA INC: $218,215 · OtherHARVEST TABERNACLE OF SARA…CROSSINGS ADDICTION SERVICES INC AKA THE CROSSINGS SERVICES: $17,000 · OtherCROSSINGS ADDICTION SERVIC…SAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC: $15,000 · OtherSAFE CHILDREN COALITION IN…FOUNDATION FOR LIBERTY AND AMERICAN GREATNESS: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherSARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $195,000 · HealthSARASOTA MEDICAL PREG…DON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $23,000 · HealthDON'T EVER GIVE UP IN…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY …THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF SARASOTA: $35,000 · EducationROCKET PHONICS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC: $26,736 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF OSCAR SCHERER STATE PARK INC: $20,000 · Environment
Youth Development$421,253Other$265,215Health$218,000Philanthropy$150,000Education$40,000Community Improvement$26,736Environment$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $386,253 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetSARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $195,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $150,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF SARASOTA: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC: $26,736 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $23,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF OSCAR SCHERER STATE PARK INC: $20,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetSAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MANATEE COUNTYINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LIBERTY AND AMERICAN GREATNESS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSisterhood For Good Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetROCKET PHONICS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% 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.

The Community Foundat…Gulf Coast Community …The Tillie Jennie & H…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Wetherington Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wetherington Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Safe Children Coalition Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 15 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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