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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.

$282k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$505kFood & Nutrition$449kHealth$378kHousing & Shelter$329kEmployment$108kCrime & Legal$63kYouth Development$51kArts & Culture$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $201k
$7,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD LIFELINE$16,000
WYOMING FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$16,000
UTAH FOOD BANK$16,000
CENTRAL WYOMING RESCUE MISSION$14,000
SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES$13,000
CENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE AND TRANSITIONS$13,000
NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS$13,000
NEIGHBORCARE HEALTH$12,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SW UTAH$12,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HEART OF WYO$12,000
PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE$11,000
CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER$11,000
SETON HOUSE$11,000
CLIMB WYOMING$11,000
SOUND GENERATIONS MEALS ON WHEELS$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 (FY17–25, $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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $11k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $11k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $11k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $11k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $11k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $9k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $8k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $8k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $8k → 8%NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $13k → 11%NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $12k → 11%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $11k → 8%CLIMB WYOMING: $11k → 11%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $10k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $10k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $10k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $10k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $8k → 8%NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 11%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $8k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $7k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $5k → 8%NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 11%CLIMB WYOMING: $10k → 11%YOUTHCARE: $5k → 9%CLIMB WYOMING: $10k → 11%YOUTHCARE: $5k → 9%NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 11%CLIMB WYOMING: $9k → 11%CLIMB WYOMING: $9k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $9k → 11%THE ROAD HOME: $8k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $8k → 8%CLIMB WYOMING: $8k → 11%THE ROAD HOME: $5k → 8%NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $8k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $8k → 11%CLIMB WYOMING: $8k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $8k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $8k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $7k → 11%NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $7k → 11%NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $7k → 11%NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $7k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $6k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $6k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $6k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $6k → 11%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 45 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
3

Total granted

$2.0M
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
0%

Still filing today

62%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEmploymentFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • SL
    SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +73%
  • UF
    UTAH FOOD BANK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $99k · revenue +93%
  • FL
    FOOD LIFELINE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $96k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST UTAH
    one grant, 2025 · $12k · revenue 0%
  • SI
    SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE
    one grant, 2025 · $3k
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2025 · $1k · revenue 0%
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
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
2
Wasatch Homeless Health Care

Help homeless Utahns improve their health and quality of life by providing high-quality health care and support services.

Health
3
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

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4
The Center for Women and Children in Crisis

Provide a caring, advocating, safe, and educationally based environment for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Health
5
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

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…

Human Services
6
Interfaith Sanctuary Housing Services Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
7
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
8
Safe Embrace

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…

Health
9
Westcare Nevada Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
10
Sheltercare

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…

Housing & Shelter
11
Utah Valley Family Support Center Inc

Provide services to victims and potential victims of child abuse and neglect.

—
12
Safehouse Denver Inc

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,…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Beginnings; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 48 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)
30/31
Grantees still filing
24/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UTAH FOOD BANK: $98,500 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANKWYOMING FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $86,500 · OtherWYOMING FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIESCENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE & TRANSITIONS: $86,000 · OtherCENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE & TRANSITIONSSOUND GENERATIONS MEALS ON WHEELS: $84,000 · OtherSOUND GENERATIONS MEALS ON WHEELSHABITAT FOR HUMANITY HEART OF WYO: $82,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY HEART OF WYONEW BEGINNINGS: $80,000 · OtherNEW BEGINNINGSCHILDHAVEN: $58,000 · OtherCHILDHAVENSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF WYOMING: $46,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $40,000 · OtherSelf Help Center Inc: $37,000 · OtherWYOMING PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION: $32,000 · OtherGTNP FUND - YOUTH CONSERVATION PROGRAM: $31,000 · Other+14 more: $137,600 · Other+14 moreCrossroads Urban Center: $87,500 · Human ServicesCrossroads Urban CenterNATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $84,000 · Human ServicesNATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON…PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $79,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLECLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $65,000 · Human ServicesCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMINGCASA of Natrona County: $62,500 · Human ServicesCASA of Natrona CountyTHE ROAD HOME: $27,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOMEYOUTHCARE: $26,500 · Human ServicesYOUTHCARESALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES: $112,000 · HealthSALT LAKE DONATED…NEIGHBORCARE HEALTH: $94,500 · HealthNEIGHBORCARE HEAL…Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $55,000 · HealthRonald McDonald H…NATRONA COLLECTIVE HEALTH TRUST: $30,000 · HealthNATRONA COLLECTIV…CAMP HOPE INC: $14,900 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthWyoming Rescue Mission: $95,000 · Housing & ShelterWyoming Resc…MOTHER SETON HOUSING INC: $76,000 · Housing & ShelterMOTHER SETON…YOUTH CRISIS CENTER: $30,500 · Housing & ShelterYOUTH CRISIS…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST UTAH: $12,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR …+1 more: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterFOOD LIFELINE: $95,500 · Food & NutritionEnglish Skills Learning Center: $48,000 · EducationFARESTART: $24,500 · EmploymentCOMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC: $18,000 · Employment
Other$899,100Human Services$431,500Health$307,400Housing & Shelter$219,500Food & Nutrition$95,500Education$48,000Employment$42,500

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 budgetSALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES: $112,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $98,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE: $95,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWyoming Rescue Mission: $95,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORCARE HEALTH: $94,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCrossroads Urban Center: $87,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE & TRANSITIONS: $86,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetNATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $84,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS: $80,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $79,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetMOTHER SETON HOUSING INC: $76,000 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $65,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCASA of Natrona County: $62,500 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetCHILDHAVEN: $58,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $55,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetEnglish Skills Learning Center: $48,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetSelf Help Center Inc: $37,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH CRISIS CENTER: $30,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNATRONA COLLECTIVE HEALTH TRUST: $30,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHCARE: $26,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFARESTART: $24,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARTCORE INC: $16,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetCAMP HOPE INC: $14,900 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST UTAH: $12,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPOP IN THE SHOP INC: $9,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetWyoming Dementia Care: $6,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Wyoming Community Fou…The McMurry FoundationZimmerman Family Foun…Wold FoundationFirst Interstate Banc…United Way of Natrona…Skelton Myra F Founda…The Goodstein Foundat…Central Wyoming Chapt…Natrona Collective He…Blue Envelope Health …Sorenson Legacy Found…
Wyoming Community FoundationWY29.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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

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    How do I get to Wheeler Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Wheeler Family 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 48 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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