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Wheeler Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k60 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k32 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+3 grants · $913k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $402,500 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $260,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC | $250,000 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | $160,000 |
| FARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC | $150,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC | $135,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $125,000 |
| THE PRODUCERS CLUB OF MARYLAND INC | $120,000 |
| THE GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| MOVEABLE FEAST INC | $100,000 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC | $100,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE FOREVER | $100,000 |
| UTAH CHAMBER ARTISTS | $95,000 |
| SHELTER THE HOMELESS COMMITTEE INC | $90,000 |
| OPERATION UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC | $90,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $866k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +8% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 75 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $821k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2022–2023 · $420k · revenue +23%
- TGTHE GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $258k · revenue +39%
- FAFARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC2× · 2022–2023 · $250k · revenue +358%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $100k
- OHOREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $100k
- GQGlobal QRFone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -62% · 44% of their budget
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.
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…
We are utah's partner in philanthropy, pioneering innovation and collaboration to invest in our community today for a brighter tomorrow.
Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The mission of globus relief is to improve the delivery of healthcare worldwide by gathering, processing and distributing surplus medical and health supplies to charities at home and abroad.
Our mission is to increase access to food across utah through advocacy, outreach, and education. utahns against hunger is utahs only state-wide anti-hunger non-profit organization working on public policy and advocacy for federal nutrition…
The christmas box international partners with local, national and international communities and groups to prevent child abuse and to improve the quality of life for children, teens and young adults who have been abused, neglected or are…
Utah refugee connection mission: creating meaningful connections between refugees, the community, and public and private organizations which support refugees in developing self-sufficient and fulfilling lives.
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.
To promote and protect human rights in the United States and around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ouelessebougou Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Onerefugee. 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 123 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRODUCERS CLUB OF MD INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds MOVEABLE FEAST INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE LEARNING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Utah Chamber Artists ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds National Alliance On Mental Illness ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds BLUE WATER BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds PARKER THEATRE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Onerefugee ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC BALLROOM DANCE ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Tuerk House Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds SHELTER THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Immigrant Legal Services ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kids on the Move Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Backroads Foundation ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation 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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Joan and Tim Fenton Family Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial 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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Maryland New Directions Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Producers Club of Md Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Village Learning Place Inc — 6% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Portland Youth Philharmonic Association — 0% of income from government
- Casa of Clackamas County — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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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