California · Private foundation
Wheeler Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $378k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 26% of the organizations Wheeler Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 21 | $378k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $308k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $429k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $234k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $63k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kidworks Community Development Corp | $450,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Focus on the Family | $243,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Capable Kids Foundation Inc | $80,500 | 5 | 7% |
| Mariners Church | $70,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Multiplication Network Ministries | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Free Wheelchair Mission | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| World Bible Society | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Prayer Covenant Inc | $46,500 | 5 | 7% |
| Childhelp Inc | $41,100 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($95k), 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: Orange County Community Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Curci Fund · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Wheeler Family Foundation
- How much does Wheeler Family Foundation give?
- Wheeler Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $377,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Wheeler Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (34%), Human Services (22%), Religion (22%).
- Who are Wheeler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Kidworks Community Development Corp ($450k), Focus on the Family ($243k), Capable Kids Foundation Inc ($81k).
- Does Wheeler Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 26% 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 Orange County Community Foundation, The Devto Support Foundation, Curci Fund.
- Where is Wheeler Family Foundation based?
- Wheeler Family Foundation is based in CA.
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