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Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell Foundation

The foundation makes cash contributions and provides volunteers to various 501(c)(3) charities supporting community and legal aid organizations.

$354k
Granted FY2019
6
Itemized grants FY2019
4
Organizations funded FY2019
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78% of Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to University Of Notre Dame Du Lac, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Itemized, FY2019
$333k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2019
$12,450
Largest grant, FY2019
$250,000
States reached, FY2019
4
Total assets, FY2019
$129k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado$49,36612%
Project Worthmore$12,45011%
Denver Dumb Friends League$5,79310%
Chapter One Nfp$5,00010%

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About Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell Foundation

How much does Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell Foundation give?
Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell Foundation reported 6 itemized grants totaling $332,609, out of $354,035 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2019 IRS filing.
What does Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2019, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (75%), Crime & Legal (15%), Human Services (4%).
Who are Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2019: Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado ($49k), Project Worthmore ($12k), Denver Dumb Friends League ($6k).
Where is Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell Foundation based?
Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell Foundation is based in CO.

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 6 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $48k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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