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Wheeler Family Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $201k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD LIFELINE | $16,000 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $16,000 |
| WYOMING FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $16,000 |
| CENTRAL WYOMING RESCUE MISSION | $14,000 |
| CENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE AND TRANSITIONS | $13,000 |
| SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES | $13,000 |
| NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS | $13,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HEART OF WYO | $12,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SW UTAH | $12,000 |
| NEIGHBORCARE HEALTH | $12,000 |
| CLIMB WYOMING | $11,000 |
| SETON HOUSE | $11,000 |
| PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE | $11,000 |
| CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER | $11,000 |
| SOUND GENERATIONS MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $432k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 13 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- SLSALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +73%
- UFUTAH FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $99k · revenue +93%
- FLFOOD LIFELINE9× · 2017–2025 · $96k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST UTAHone grant, 2025 · $12k · revenue 0%
- SISLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACEone grant, 2025 · $3k
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2025 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
Help homeless Utahns improve their health and quality of life by providing high-quality health care and support services.
Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.
Provide a caring, advocating, safe, and educationally based environment for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
Interfaith sanctuary is a collaboration of people of faith and people of goodwill who provide shelter and services to the homeless. we provide overnight shelter for men, women, and children, and supportive services to promote greater…
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Safe Embrace is committed to ending the cycle of domestic and sexual violence with innovative prevention and intervention services. We help victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking become survivors by providing…
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
Sheltercare offers a variety of housing and support services for people who are homeless or those facing homelessness with a committed focus on the community's most vulnerable individuals dealing with psychiatric disabilities, acquired…
Provide services to victims and potential victims of child abuse and neglect.
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Beginnings and the most unlike its peers is Rainbow Rescues. 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 14% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 48 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 SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORCARE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Urban Center ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE & TRANSITIONS ↗
- Who funds NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds MOTHER SETON HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING ↗
- Who funds CASA of Natrona County ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
- Who funds English Skills Learning Center ↗
- Who funds Self Help Center Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATRONA COLLECTIVE HEALTH TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ARTCORE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST UTAH ↗
- Who funds POP IN THE SHOP INC ↗
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: Wyoming Community Foundation · The McMurry Foundation · Zimmerman Family Foundation · Wold Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · United Way of Natrona County · Skelton Myra F Foundation · The Goodstein Foundation · Central Wyoming Chapter of the American Petroleum Institute · Natrona Collective Health Trust · Blue Envelope Health Fund · Sorenson Legacy Foundation
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 Wheeler Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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