· Private foundation
Wheelwright Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of WHEELWRIGHT FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILFORD WOODRUFF PAPERS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI - STUDENT EMERGENCY FUND | $10,000 |
| ENGAGE NOW AFRICA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FIGHT THE NEW DRUG | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,283 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | $6,550 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON | $5,000 |
| A CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| WESTLAKE ACADEMY LIBRARY | $3,000 |
| NOW I CAN | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +56% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- WWWILFORD WOODRUFF PAPERS FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +203%
- ENENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +31%
- DFDays For Girls International4× · 2017–2021 · $17k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTSone grant, 2017 · $25k
- LCLINDNER COLLEGE OF BUSINESSone grant, 2021 · $20k
- ESElizabeth Smart Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue ×16 · 38% 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.
Speak Up exists to transform the world on behalf of the poor. Our mission is to create a new reality for girls in poverty. We work toward this goal through educational programs support of safe homes and practical legal work.
The Child Liberation Foundation (CLF), founded in February 2017, is dedicated to eradicating child trafficking worldwide. In 2023, CLF expanded its mission beyond rescue operations to emphasize rehabilitation and healing for survivors of…
She Is Safe prevents, rescues and restores women and girls from abuse and exploitation in high risk communities across the globe, equipping them to build lives of freedom and faith for a strong future. We accomplish our work in partnership…
To confront child sexual exploitation, specifically sex trafficking and online abuse. We fulfill our mission by providing education, promoting healing, and furthering advocacy for survivors.
Life Matters Worldwide encourages, equips and strengthens pregnancy care workers so they can continue to provide life-affirming services.
World Pulse is a global social impact network connecting women from 227 countries to accelerate social change. We provide a safe and supportive online space where women can speak for themselves, make powerful connections, and access the…
We transform the lives of orphaned and migrant children in Baja California, Mexico by resourcing and strengthening exceptional programs that serve these young people.
Unitus Labs provides consulting support loans grants and investments to partner organizations who are implementing innovative market-based approaches to reducing global poverty with potential for very large scale impact.
The Orphaned Starfish Foundation creates lasting change in the lives of orphans throughout Latin America and the world by helping them develop vocational skills. We believe enabling them with these skills allows them to permanently…
We are an educational institute that prepares women of faith with the information, training, and encouragement to become more civically engaged and to contribute more fully to charitable causes within their communities and throughout the…
Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) provides solar power and wireless communications to the fifth of the world's population living in energy poverty to meet global challenges of food and water scarcity, basic healthcare and poverty. SELF is…
Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Engage Now Africa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Justin Cares. 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 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 108 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 Fight the New Drug Inc ↗
- Who funds WILFORD WOODRUFF PAPERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds Days For Girls International ↗
- Who funds BIG OCEAN WOMEN ↗
- Who funds Stand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love ↗
- Who funds Better Days 2020 ↗
- Who funds UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Elizabeth Smart Foundation ↗
- Who funds Women for Afghan Women Inc ↗
- Who funds Raleigh Immigrants Community Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Northwest ISD Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Other Side Academy ↗
- Who funds Mormon Women For Ethical Government ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds A CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME PARTNERSHIP OF NORTH TEXAS ↗
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 · The Ashton Family Foundation · University Impact · doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Neal and Sherrie Savage Family Foundation · Legacy Global Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Jordan W and Julie a Clements Foundation · The Brent and Kathryn Wood 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 Wheelwright Family Charitable 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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