Wyoming · Private foundation
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.
- $282k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Wheeler Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 35 | $282k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $257k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $232k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $236k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $259k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $202k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $201k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $188k | 3% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake Donated Dental Services | $112,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Utah Food Bank | $98,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Food Lifeline | $95,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Wyoming Rescue Mission | $95,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Neighborcare Health | $94,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Crossroads Urban Center | $87,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Central Wyoming Hospice & Transitions | $86,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Natrona County Meals on Wheels Inc | $84,000 | 9 | 1% |
| New Beginnings | $80,000 | 9 | 0% |
| People Helping People | $79,000 | 9 | 2% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($494k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wheeler Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Wheeler Family Foundation
- How much does Wheeler Family Foundation give?
- Wheeler Family Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $282,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wheeler Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Food & Nutrition (22%), Health (19%).
- Who are Wheeler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Salt Lake Donated Dental Services ($112k), Utah Food Bank ($99k), Food Lifeline ($96k).
- Does Wheeler Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wheeler Family Foundation 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 Wheeler Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wyoming Community Foundation, The McMurry Foundation, Zimmerman Family Foundation.
- Where is Wheeler Family Foundation based?
- Wheeler Family Foundation is based in WY.
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