Washington · Private foundation
Wheeler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $890k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 66
- Grants FY2025
- 74
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $85,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 61 to 79
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Wheeler Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k 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 | 65 | $875k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 74 | $934k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 61 | $793k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $810k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 72 | $804k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 74 | $793k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 76 | $843k | 42% |
| FY2017 | 79 | $755k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fora Health Inc | $635,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Oregon Historical Society | $230,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Oregon Food Bank | $200,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $200,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc | $130,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Portland Youth Philharmonic Association | $118,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Library Foundation | $112,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Oregon Museum of Science and Industry | $108,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Trillium Family Services | $108,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Portland State University Foundation | $102,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 155 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($713k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wheeler Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 144 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Jackson Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Collins Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Hillman Family Foundations
How this is measured
About Wheeler Foundation
- How much does Wheeler Foundation give?
- Wheeler Foundation reported 66 grants totaling $890,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 61 and 79 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Wheeler Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (18%), Education (16%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Wheeler Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fora Health Inc ($635k), Oregon Historical Society ($230k), Oregon Food Bank ($200k).
- Does Wheeler Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wheeler Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wheeler Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation, Juan Young Trust, The Jackson Foundation.
- Where is Wheeler Foundation based?
- Wheeler Foundation is based in WA.
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