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Wier 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.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$112kEducation$99kYouth Development$75kInternational$61kHuman Services$53kPhilanthropy$43kFood & Nutrition$21kHealth$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$730k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VICKERY MEADOW NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE$20,000
PEDAL THE PACIFIC$20,000
THE WINSTON SCHOOL$15,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SPIRIT REINS: $10k → 6%GENERATION SERVE: $15k → 10%PINE COVE: $5k → 12%THE WINSTON SCHOOL: $60k → 14%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%HOUSTON FOOD BANK: $1k → 16%GLOBAL GIVING: $10k → 14%THE CRU FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%HOPE UNITED: $10k → 10%NICARAGUA RESOURCE NETWORK: $5k → 5%UBS DONOR-ADVISED FUND - NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $15k → 14%SPIRIT REINS: $5k → 6%GENERATION SERVE: $15k → 10%THE WINSTON SCHOOL: $15k → 14%HOPE UNITED: $10k → 10%NICARAGUA RESOURCE NETWORK: $5k → 5%UBS DONOR-ADVISED FUND - NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $10k → 14%GENERATION SERVE: $15k → 10%THE WINSTON SCHOOL: $15k → 14%NICARAGUS RESOURCE NETWORK: $500 → 5%UBS DONOR-ADVISED FUND: $10k → 14%I LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE: $5k → 10%THE WINSTON SCHOOL: $8k → 14%UBS DONOR-ADVISED FUND - NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $8k → 14%BUCKNER: $8k → 14%UBS DONOR-ADVISED FUND - NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $5k → 14%BUCKNER: $8k → 14%BUCKNER: $5k → 14%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$433k · 11 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$433k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+34%

Still filing today

55%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
InternationalEducationCrime & LegalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • PT
    PEDAL THE PACIFIC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $112k · revenue +69%
  • TW
    The Winston School
    4× · 2022–2025 · $98k · revenue +3%
  • IJ
    INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • UD
    UBS DONOR-ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +34%
  • PC
    PINE COVE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $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
International Needs

International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.

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2
Samaritan's Purse

Samaritan's purse is a nondenominational evangelical christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. since 1970, samaritan's purse has helped meet the needs of people who are victims of war,…

Religion
3
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
4
Inter-America Mission
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5
Commission to Every Nation

To advance the gospel of jesus christ to every nation through pastoral care and missionary support.

Religion
6
Genaustin

Girls empowerment network's mission is to ignite the power in girls by teaching them the skills to thrive and believe in their ability to be unstoppable.

Human Services
7
Hope Media Group

Hope media group's (hmg) mission is engaging people to love jesus, serve others, and spread hope.

Arts & Culture
8
Texas Leadership Summit

Empowering everyday leaders with courage, tools and hope to ignite a revival of christian leadership.

Religion
9
Texas Wesleyan University

Texas wesleyan university, guided by its deep methodist heritage, provides transformational learning experiences and research opportunities to a diverse group of students to develop their full potential as individuals and as members of the…

Education
10
Christian Veterinary Mission

Christian veterinary mission (cvm) serves to challenge, empower and facilitate veterinary professionals to serve others, living out their christian faith through long term missions, short term missions, professional ministry, affiliate…

Animals
11
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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12
Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc

Catholic medical mission board (cmmb) is an international, faith-based nonprofit that believes in healthier lives worldwide. we work in partnerships globally to deliver locally sustainable, quality health solutions, (continued on schedule…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Generation Serve; the most unlike its peers is Vickery Meadow Neighborhood Alliance. 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

14 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. 14 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Winston School: $97,500 · OtherThe Winston SchoolUBS DONOR-ADVISED FUND - NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $38,222 · OtherUBS DONOR-ADVISED FUND - NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTTHE REFUGE FOR DMST: $21,000 · OtherTHE REFUGE FOR DMSTHOPE UNITED INC: $20,000 · OtherHOPE UNITED INCBUCKNER: $20,000 · OtherBUCKNERSPIRIT REINS INC: $15,000 · OtherSPIRIT REINS INCUBS DONOR-ADVISED FUND: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $11,901 · OtherPEDAL THE PACIFIC: $112,000 · Crime & LegalPEDAL THE PACIFICGENERATION SERVE: $75,000 · EducationGENERATION SERVE+1 more: $1,000 · EducationINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $20,000 · InternationalINTERNATI…NICARAGUA RESOURCE NETWORK INC: $10,900 · InternationalNICARAGUA…GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIV…VICKERY MEADOW NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE: $20,000 · Food & NutritionCapernaum Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesI LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$233,623Crime & Legal$112,000Education$76,000International$40,900Food & Nutrition$20,000Human Services$5,000Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetPEDAL THE PACIFIC: $112,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetThe Winston School: $97,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetGENERATION SERVE: $75,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTHE REFUGE FOR DMST: $21,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPIRIT REINS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNICARAGUA RESOURCE NETWORK INC: $10,900 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCapernaum Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetI LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCentral Missionary Clearinghouse Inc: $3,501 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $1,000 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.

United Way WorldwideAustin Community Foun…Christian Community F…Greater Houston Commu…Communities Foundatio…Raymond James Charita…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
United Way WorldwideVA15.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Worldwide · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%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 · 0–25%
    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 20 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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