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Wheelock Family Foundation

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.

$61k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$222kEmployment$134kHealth$131kRecreation & Sports$35kFood & Nutrition$11kInternational$10kHousing & Shelter$6kCrime & Legal$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$46,150
Median grant
1
States reached
$543k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Runaways Animal Rescue$46,150
Upper Pinellas Youth Football Inc$15,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Direct Relief: $2k → 14%Cornell Lab of Ornithology: $500 → 16%Heifer International: $2k → 17%Judicial Watch: $1k → 14%Runaways Animal Rescue: $46k → 11%St Mary's Catholic Church: $3k → 11%East Lake Youth Football Cheer: $20k → 12%The Nature Conservancy: $1k → 13%St Joseph's Hospitals Foundation: $100k → 13%Mayo Clinic: $6k → 14%Sterling Schools Foundation: $1k → 13%National Legal Policy Center: $500 → 4%Leadership Institute: $1k → 7%Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation: $200 → 9%Heifer International: $2k → 17%Judicial Watch: $500 → 14%Runaways Animal Rescue: $46k → 11%Morton Plant Mease Healthcare Found: $5k → 12%The Nature Conservancy: $1k → 13%Mayo Clinic: $6k → 14%Sterling Schools Foundation: $1k → 13%Heifer International: $2k → 17%Runaways Animal Rescue: $46k → 11%Morton Plant Mease Healthcare Found: $3k → 12%Mayo Clinic: $5k → 14%Heifer International: $1k → 17%FINCA: $500 → 14%Runaways Animal Rescue: $46k → 11%Morton Plant Mease Care Foundation: $2k → 12%Mayo Clinic: $3k → 14%Runaways Animal Rescue: $22k → 11%Morton Plant Mease Care Foundation: $1k → 12%Runaways Animal Rescue: $8k → 11%Upper Pinellas Youth Football Inc: $15k → 12%Runaways Animal Rescue: $4k → 11%Homeless Empowerment Program: $2k → 12%Homeless Empowerment Program: $2k → 12%Homeless Empowerment Program: $1k → 12%Homeless Empowerment Program: $1k → 12%Suncoast Hospice Foundation: $500 → 12%Vincent House: $130k → 12%Vincent House: $3k → 12%Vincent House: $1k → 12%Feast Food Pantry: $5k → 12%Suncoast Animal League: $3k → 12%Feast Food Pantry: $2k → 12%Feast Food Pantry: $2k → 12%Feast Food Pantry: $2k → 12%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

IL
NY
SD
CA
VA
AR
DC
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$415k · 11 repeat orgs$150k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
12

Total granted

$415k
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+6%

Still filing today

45%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsInternationalHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • RA
    Runaways Animal Rescue
    5× · 2021–2025 · $219k · revenue +183%
  • VG
    Van Gogh's Palette Inc
    3× · 2020–2024 · $134k · revenue +27%
  • HE
    HOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL OF TAMPA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +644%
  • EL
    East Lake Youth Football Cheer
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
2
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Naples Zoo Inc

Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…

Animals
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
7
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
8
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
9
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
10
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
11
The Humane League

We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…

Animals
12
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Emergency Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Runaways Animal Rescue. 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

15 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. 15 of the 26 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Runaways Animal Rescue: $219,118 · AnimalsRunaways Animal Rescue+1 more: $2,500 · AnimalsVan Gogh's Palette Inc: $134,000 · EmploymentVan Gogh's Palette IncST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL OF TAMPA FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthST JOSEPH'S HOSPITA…East Lake Youth Football Cheer: $20,000 · OtherEast Lake Youth F…Mayo Clinic: $19,500 · OtherMayo ClinicFeast Food Pantry: $11,000 · OtherFeast Food PantryMorton Plant Mease Healthcare Found: $8,100 · OtherMorton Plant Meas…Heifer International: $7,000 · OtherHeifer Internatio…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant …National Right to Work Legal Defens: $3,500 · OtherSt Mary's Catholic Church: $3,000 · OtherMorton Plant Mease Care Foundation: $3,000 · Other+9 more: $8,305 · Other+9 moreUPPER PINELLAS YOUTH FOOTBALL INC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsHOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterDIRECT RELIEF: $2,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $500 · International
Animals$221,618Employment$134,000Health$100,000Other$88,405Recreation & Sports$15,000Housing & Shelter$6,000International$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRunaways Animal Rescue: $219,118 over 5y, 14% of budgetVan Gogh's Palette Inc: $134,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL OF TAMPA FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUNCOAST ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTERLING SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $105 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.

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.

Ge Aerospace Foundati…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Ge Aerospace FoundationCT12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Homeless Emergency Project Inc: 15% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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