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Wethington Family Foundation at a glance

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Wethington Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$49k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$121kArts & Culture$68kPublic Benefit$65kReligion$59kCommunity Improvement$45kEducation$34kFood & Nutrition$10kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$652k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS$15,000
INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$10,000
WASHINGTON CONCERT OPERA$3,500
02The need
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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 (FY18–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SILVER BAY YMCA: $2k → 10%SILVER BAY YMCA: $1k → 10%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 94% of Wethington Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 9% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Wethington Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$333k · 9 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$333k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+47%

Still filing today

89%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalArts & CultureHealthPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AC
    ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $119k · revenue +3%
  • CO
    COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +3%
  • WC
    WASHINGTON CONCERT OPERA
    7× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • TW
    The Wesley Heritage Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +109%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +47%
  • SI
    SHARE INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -39%
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
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
5
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
8
Goucher College

Goucher College provides an innovative liberal arts education that prepares students with a broad, humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking. The College's vision is to become a top-100…

Education
9
Washington & Jefferson College

To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

Education
10
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

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11
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
12
Association of Catholic Colleges and University

The association of catholic colleges and universities, founded in 1899, serves as the collective voice of u.s catholic higher education. through programs and services, the association strengthens and promptes the catholic identity and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is The Wesley Heritage Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $118,607 · InternationalATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED S…+1 more: $2,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE: $65,000 · EducationINTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN I…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYBucknell University: $4,000 · EducationLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $4,000 · EducationTRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $28,500 · OtherTRINITY UNITED METHODI…The Wesley Heritage Foundation: $25,000 · OtherThe Wesley Heritage Fo…SHARE INCORPORATED: $10,000 · OtherSHARE INCORPORATEDIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recip…ST MICHAEL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherST MICHAEL'S EPISCOPAL…RENATA TEBALDI MUSEUM: $3,000 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherCHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $36,675 · Arts & CultureCHORAL ARTS SOCIE…WASHINGTON CONCERT OPERA: $28,375 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON CONCER…COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS: $45,000 · Public BenefitCOUNCIL ON C…SILVER BAY ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN CONFERENCES AND TRAINING: $3,000 · Human ServicesCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Health
International$120,607Education$98,000Other$82,500Arts & Culture$65,050Public Benefit$45,000Human Services$3,000Health$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $118,607 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE: $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $36,675 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWASHINGTON CONCERT OPERA: $28,375 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetThe Wesley Heritage Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER BAY ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN CONFERENCES AND TRAINING: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE C MARSHALL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Morris and Gwendo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Wethington Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wethington Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–15%
    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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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