Louisiana · Private foundation
Wheless Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $689k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Wheless Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 | 43 | $651k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $606k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $600k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $620k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $496k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $508k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $313k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $458k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwest Louisiana Food Bank | $280,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Community Renewal International Inc | $225,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Team Gleason Foundation | $180,200 | 6 | 1% |
| Assistance Dogs of the West | $125,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Durham Academy Inc | $120,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Robinsons Rescue Inc | $110,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Kitchen Angels Inc | $90,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Caddo Council on Aging | $88,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of Louisiana Public Broadcasting Inc | $85,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Volunteers for Youth Justice | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wheless Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Grayson Foundation Inc · The Powers Foundation Inc · Willis-Knighton Medical Center · American Electric Power Foundation · The Alta and John Franks Foundation · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · The Crow Foundation · United Way of Northwest Louisiana · The Frost Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation
How this is measured
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About Wheless Foundation
- How much does Wheless Foundation give?
- Wheless Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $688,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wheless Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (22%), Human Services (13%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Wheless Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Northwest Louisiana Food Bank ($280k), Community Renewal International Inc ($225k), Team Gleason Foundation ($180k).
- Does Wheless Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wheless Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wheless Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Louisiana, Grayson Foundation Inc, The Powers Foundation Inc.
- Where is Wheless Foundation based?
- Wheless Foundation is based in LA.
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