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Wheeler Family Foundation Wheeler Rennie at a glance

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Wheeler Family Foundation Wheeler Rennie

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.

$26k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$584kYouth Development$11kRecreation & Sports$9kEducation$6kHuman Services$4kAnimals$2kFood & Nutrition$1kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,663
Median grant
1
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PAN MASS CHALLENGE$25,663
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 (FY19–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HONOR FLIGHT: $1k → 7%HONOR FLIGHT: $500 → 7%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

ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
NJ
VA
AZ
NM
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$338k · 7 repeat orgs$310k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
16

Total granted

$338k
$310k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+112%

Still filing today

57%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2018–2023 · $142k
  • PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $121k · revenue +20%
  • SS
    SAM SCHMIDT PARALYSIS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $35k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FUNDRAISING
    one grant, 2019 · $21k
  • HP
    HENRYS PLACE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -12%
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
Henry Ford Health Genesys Foundation

As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…

Health
2
Dominican Hospital Foundation

The mission of the dominican hospital foundation is to ensure that philanthropic resources are available to respond to and support the changing health care needs of the people within the area served by dignity health dba dominican…

Health
3
Glendale Memorial Health Foundation

Provide direct services to the poor and advocate on their behalf and create partnerships that improve community health.

Health
4
Dominican Health Services

To conduct, sponsor, advance, encourage, and promote charitable, hospital, educational, scientific and religious activities as may be deemed advisable for advancement of health care. to conduct, sponsor, advance, encourage, promote and…

Health
5
Commonspirit Washington Community Care F/K/a Harrison Medical Center

Harrison medical center provides acute medical and surgical services, emergency services and a range of general and specialized services to residents of the kitsap peninsula and adjacent areas.

Health
6
Henry Ford Health Genesys Hospital

As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…

Health
7
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
8
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
9
St Mary Medical Center Foundation

To support dignity health dba st. mary medical center in the long beach area in providing health care. foundation support allows the hospital to further its mission by making the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the…

Health
10
The Hsc Foundation

See schedule o.to provide and coordinate innovative, high quality, community-based care for individuals with complex needs and their families. the hsc foundation (foundation) empowers all we serve to improve the quality of their lives…

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11
Practice Greenhealth

Practice greenhealth works to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health and justice.

Health
12
Henry County Health Center Inc

Henry county health center is committed to enhancing the health of individuals and our communities through high quality, effective and efficient services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Rose Dominican Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Boys Girls Club. 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

11 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. 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $142,315 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $121,144 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INCSAM SCHMIDT PARALYSIS FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherSAM SCHMIDT PARALYSIS FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $26,150 · OtherAMERICAN FUNDRAISING: $20,900 · Other+9 more: $25,388 · OtherMAYO CLINIC: $25,000 · HealthST ROSE DOMINICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthGHOST TREE INVITATIONAL LTD: $1,815 · Health+1 more: $995 · HealthHENRYS PLACE: $10,000 · PhilanthropyHUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON: $2,000 · AnimalsHONOR FLIGHT INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesHENDERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Community ImprovementGIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: $100 · Youth Development
Other$620,897Health$37,810Philanthropy$10,000Animals$2,000Human Services$1,500Community Improvement$1,000Youth Development$100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $121,144 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST ROSE DOMINICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHENRYS PLACE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGHOST TREE INVITATIONAL LTD: $1,815 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHENDERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRACING FOR RECOVERY: $995 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS GIRLS CLUB: $425 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: $100 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 PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds ST ROSE DOMINICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HENRYS PLACE ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
  • Who funds GHOST TREE INVITATIONAL LTD ↗
  • Who funds HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds HENDERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RACING FOR RECOVERY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS GIRLS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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