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WEW Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$37k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Education$127kReligion$115kHuman Services$11kAnimals$6kEnvironment$2kHealth$2kPhilanthropy$2kYouth Development$300Other$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$451k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Northminster Baptist Church$13,000
Delta Waterfowl Foundation$6,000
Bible Study Fellowship$3,000
Grace Inspirations Church$3,000
Jackson Preparatory School Foundation$3,000
Stewpot Ministries$3,000
Mission First$3,000
Children's Harbor$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Ocean Reef Community Foundation$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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 48% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 14%Ocean Reef Community Foundation: $500 → 13%Children's Harbor: $1k → 12%JH - OUTBACK AUBURN: $1k → 16%Ducks Unlimited: $1k → 17%Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation: $300 → 12%Wake Forest University: $5k → 15%Jackson Preparatory School: $21k → 10%STEWPOT MINISTRIES: $3k → 23%Delta Waterfowl Foundation: $6k → 10%Bayou Dularge Baptist Church: $5k → 16%Ocean Reef Medical Center Foundation: $400 → 13%Ducks Unlimited: $1k → 17%Jackson Preparatory School Foundation: $21k → 10%Grace Inspirations Church: $3k → 23%Ocean Reef Community Foundation: $335 → 13%Jackson Preparatory School Foundation: $21k → 10%Stewpot Ministries: $3k → 23%Jackson Preparatory School: $21k → 10%Girl Scouts of Greater MS: $300 → 23%Jackson Preparatory School Foundation: $20k → 10%Newman Services Foundation: $300 → 23%Jackson Preparatory School: $13k → 10%COMMUNITY FDN FOR MISSISSIPPI: $1k → 23%Jackson Preparatory School Foundation: $3k → 10%Northminster Baptist Church: $13k → 23%Jackson Preparatory School: $1k → 10%Northminster Baptist Church: $13k → 23%Jackson Preparatory School: $1k → 10%Northminster Baptist Church: $12k → 23%Friends of Children's Hospital: $200 → 10%Northminster Baptist Church: $11k → 23%Northminster Baptist Church: $10k → 23%Northminster Baptist Church: $10k → 23%Northminster Baptist Church: $10k → 23%Northminster Baptist Church: $10k → 23%Northminster Baptist Church: $10k → 23%First Presbyterian Church: $100 → 23%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
NE
TN
NC
LA
MS
AL
TX
FL
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 15% of WEW Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in MS; by stated purpose, 83%.

WEW 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$235k · 6 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +97% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
11

Total granted

$235k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+97%
+2%

Still filing today

50%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsReligionEnvironmentOther
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

  • JP
    JACKSON PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $65k · revenue +17%
  • MF
    MISSION FIRST INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +184%
  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • BD
    Bayou Dularge Baptist Church
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +30%
  • OS
    OPERATION SHOESTRING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +72%
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 Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
2
Ducks Unlimited Inc Group Return

Ducks unlimited, inc. conserves, restores, and manages wetlands and associated habitats for north america's waterfowl. these habitats also benefit additional wildlife and people.

Environment
3
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…

Education
4
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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5
Children's Hospital Ophthalmology Foundation Inc

The Foundation's mission is to provide ophthalmology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the…

Health
6
University of Southern Mississippi Foundation

To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…

Education
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
Methodist Foundation of Mississippi Inc

The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…

Religion
9
Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Health
10
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
11
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
12
Children's Hospital Pathology Foundation Inc

The Foundation's mission is to provide pathology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the field…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Children's Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

13 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. 13 of the 24 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHMINSTER BAPTIST CHURCH: $97,850 · OtherNORTHMINSTER BAPTIST CHURCHJACKSON PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $65,000 · OtherJACKSON PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONJackson Preparatory School: $57,000 · OtherJackson Preparatory School+11 more: $24,400 · Other+11 moreDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $6,000 · AnimalsWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationOPERATION SHOESTRING INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $3,000 · ReligionDucks Unlimited Inc: $2,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI: $1,000 · PhilanthropyOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $835 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC: $1,000 · HealthPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc: $300 · HealthFRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $200 · Health
Other$244,250Animals$6,000Education$5,000Human Services$3,000Religion$3,000Environment$2,000Philanthropy$1,835Health$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJACKSON PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION FIRST INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SHOESTRING INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $835 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Ergon Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …Walker FoundationVan Devender Family F…James W Hood Family F…The Pruet FoundationSelby and Richard McR…Raymond James Charita…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
Ergon Foundation IncMS17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ergon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Walker Foundation · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · James W Hood Family Foundation · The Pruet Foundation · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 WEW Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from WEW Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to WEW Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to WEW Foundation 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.

    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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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