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Wheelhouse 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.

$109k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$35,800
Organizations funded a year
5 to 7
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$5.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Wheelhouse Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Human ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$109k70%
FY20235$155k20%
FY20227$114k57%
FY20215$81kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$224kReligion$89kHuman Services$88kEducation$30kRecreation & Sports$10kPublic Benefit$10kAnimals$5kHealth$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Light of Life Ministries Inc$223,79541%
Iona University$25,00010%
Patriot Fund Inc$10,00011%
Center for Hope$10,00011%
YMCA of the Roses$6,50030%
Big Shoulders Fund$5,00010%
Am Ministries$5,0001n/a
Sewickley Hounds Foundation$5,000179%
Pittsburgh Lung Cancer Cure Foundation$1,00011%
Central Assembly of God$7201n/a
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All grantees of Wheelhouse Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Light of Life Ministries Inc$223,79541%
Iona University$25,00010%
Patriot Fund Inc$10,00011%
Center for Hope$10,00011%
YMCA of the Roses$6,50030%
Big Shoulders Fund$5,00010%
Am Ministries$5,0001n/a
Sewickley Hounds Foundation$5,000179%
Pittsburgh Lung Cancer Cure Foundation$1,00011%
Central Assembly of God$7201n/a
Victory Family Church Inc$5001n/a
Kidsvoice$50010%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($165k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Wheelhouse Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLight of Life Ministries Inc: $223,795 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetIona University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPatriot Fund Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCenter for Hope: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYMCA of the Roses: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSewickley Hounds Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 79% of budgetPittsburgh Lung Cancer Cure Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKidsvoice: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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About Wheelhouse Family Foundation

How much does Wheelhouse Family Foundation give?
Wheelhouse Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $108,550 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Wheelhouse Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (49%), Religion (19%), Human Services (19%).
Who are Wheelhouse Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Light of Life Ministries Inc ($224k), Iona University ($25k), Patriot Fund Inc ($10k).
Does Wheelhouse Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wheelhouse 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.
Where is Wheelhouse Family Foundation based?
Wheelhouse Family Foundation is based in PA.

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 17 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.

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