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Wheless Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $635k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL | $45,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA | $35,000 |
| GLEASON INITIATIVE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE OF NW LA | $30,000 |
| TISCH BRAIN TUMOR CENTER AT DUKE | $30,000 |
| UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| DURHAM ACADEMY INC | $30,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS | $30,000 |
| YMCA | $30,000 |
| CHASTAIN PARK THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $30,000 |
| GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| VAIL VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER | $20,000 |
| ASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST | $20,000 |
| MIT | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $386k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- NLNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK8× · 2018–2025 · $280k · revenue +31%
- CRCOMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $225k · revenue +95%
- TGTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +182%
Funded once
- TGThe Glen Retirement Systemone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +9%
- CACUMBERLAND ACADEMY OF GEORGIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +26%
- TSTHERA SPORTS AND RECREATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Dedicated to the elimination of animal suffering by providing care and basic medical services for homeless and unwanted animals with the mission to promote, protect, and advance the well-being of louisiana's companion animals.
The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…
The mission of the humane society is to save and enhance the lives of pets through cooperative and innovative approaches to adoption, spay/neuter, sheltering and community engagement.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
The sole mission of the foundation is to support, enhance and assist the lsu health sciences center at shreveport in its many endeavors.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
The mission of the louisiana state bar association is to assist its members in the practice of law, assure access to and aid in the administration of justice, assist the supreme court in the regulation of the practice of law, uphold the…
To be operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform functions of and to carry out the purposes of the louisiana society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, which operates to prevent cruelty to animals.
Enhance the dignity and quality of life for individuals, families, and communities by eliminating barriers to opportunity and helping people in need reach their fullest potential through employment and workforce development…
To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lsu in Shreveport Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Savannah College of Art and DesignInc. 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 44 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 65 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 NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds DURHAM ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ROBINSONS RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds CADDO COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS FOR YOUTH JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I ↗
- Who funds Esperanza Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds Oakwood Home for Women Inc ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHIMP HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Shreveport Bossier Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SANTA FE INC ↗
- Who funds GINGERBREAD HOUSE BOSSIERCADDO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ↗
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: 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
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 Wheless 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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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