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Wicks Family Grace Foundation at a glance

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Wicks Family Grace 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.

$78k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$161kHuman Services$157kCommunity Improvement$103kReligion$88kArts & Culture$52kHealth$11k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST LIGHT MINISTRIES$25,000
FAMILY VISION LIBRARY$18,000
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY$15,000
JOY FM BOOST RADIO$10,000
ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES$10,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES: $40k → 11%MBCH CHILDREN & FAMILY MINISTRIES: $11k → 15%ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES: $17k → 11%MBCH CHILDREN & FAMILY MINISTRIES: $11k → 15%ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES: $15k → 11%MBCH CHILDREN & FAMILY MINISTRIES: $5k → 15%ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES: $10k → 11%ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES: $5k → 11%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

AK
IL
OH
CA
CO
MO
DC
MS
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$591k · 10 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$591k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
-11%

Still filing today

50%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionOther
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

  • TF
    THE FIELD SCHOOL
    4× · 2018–2021 · $100k · revenue +852%
  • OH
    ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $87k · revenue +15%
  • MC
    MBCH CHILDREN AND FAMILY MINISTRIES
    3× · 2021–2023 · $27k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • YO
    YOUTH OF VISION ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -11%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +63%
  • GH
    GENESIS HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -30%
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
Whitefield Academy Association

The mission of whitefield academy is to support parents by providing students with a top-tier academic foundation in a joyful, christ-centered community of classical learning.

Education
2
Grace Christian Academy St Louis

The mission of Grace Christian Academy is to first serve families and children by giving them a Biblically-based education centered on a growing relationship with Jesus Christ, imparting a Christian world view and emphasizing Godly…

Education
3
First Baptist Church Moss Bluff Christian Academy

The organization is a christian school with certified curriculum and state certified teachers, we partner with families to equip, challenge, and inspire students to impact the world for christ by living out biblical truth.

—
4
Thrive Ministries Inc

Faith-based education and care of children

Education
5
Whitefield Academy Inc

Whitefield academy is a christ-centered college preparatory school that bolsters christian families in rearing young people who go on to college and life with a passion for learning, for putting others ahead of self, and for the living and…

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6
Truth Academy Inc

Truth academy works in partnership with families to integrate high-quality education with biblical truth and discipleship in order to train students, spiritually and academically, how to operate in their god-given purpose and live out a…

Religion
7
Timothy Christian Schools

Serving god and his people, timothy christian schools develops academically prepared christian disciples who embrace christ's call to transform the world.

—
8
Thrive Christian Academy Inc

To provide formal instruction via regular faculty, curriculum, enrolled body of students and a place where educational activities are regularly conducted.

—
9
Westminster Academy

The school provides classical christian education to students in grades junior kindergarten through twelve.

Education
10
New Hope Academy

Christ-centered school educating children of diverse racial & socioeconomic backgrounds by establishing a biblical worldview & preparing each child to flourish academically, emotionally, socially & spiritually.

Education
11
Life Way Christian School

As a ministry of first baptist church centerton, life way christian school will enter into a parternship with christian families in order to equip young people with a biblical worldview so that they can engage the culture in a way that…

Education
12
Trinity Academy of Portland

The mission of trinity academy of portland is to educate middle and high school students within a joyful christian school culture marked by the discovery of truth, the practice of goodness, the creation of beauty, and the development of…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Field School; the most unlike its peers is Thrive Nation. 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

11 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. 11 of the 16 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE THREAD STL: $102,500 · OtherTHE THREAD STLFIRST LIGHT MINISTRIES: $90,000 · OtherFIRST LIGHT MINISTRIESFOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $68,350 · OtherFOCUS ON THE FAMILYJOY FM BOOST RADIO: $62,000 · OtherJOY FM BOOST RADIOFAMILY VISION LIBRARY: $24,000 · OtherFAMILY VISION LIBRARY+2 more: $12,500 · OtherTHE FIELD SCHOOL: $100,000 · EducationTHE FIELD SCHOOLYOUTH OF VISION ACADEMY INC: $20,000 · EducationYOUTH OF VISION ACADEMY IN…Thrive Nation: $20,000 · EducationThrive NationWESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationWESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN ACAD…ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $87,000 · Human ServicesONE HEART FAMILY MI…MBCH CHILDREN AND FAMILY MINISTRIES: $27,000 · Human ServicesMBCH CHILDREN AND F…AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · ReligionGENESIS HOUSE INC: $10,000 · HealthTHRIVE ST LOUIS INC: $600 · Health
Other$359,350Education$150,000Human Services$114,000Religion$15,000Health$10,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE THREAD STL: $102,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetTHE FIELD SCHOOL: $100,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $87,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetMBCH CHILDREN AND FAMILY MINISTRIES: $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH OF VISION ACADEMY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGENESIS HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE FIELD SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE ST LOUIS INC: $600 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.

Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA7.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Wicks Family Grace Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wicks Family Grace Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 16 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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