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Wild Wisdom Foundation Inc (Formerly a Cerami & a Dunne Fdn for World Health)

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

69% of Wild Wisdom Foundation Inc (Formerly a Cerami & a Dunne Fdn for World Health)’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 14 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Wild Wisdom Foundation Inc (Formerly a Cerami & a Dunne Fdn for World Health) named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

14
’17
13
’18
27
’19
17
’20
22
’21
20
’22
16
’23
18
’24
14
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$6.3MPhilanthropy$5.6MEducation$2.1MArts & Culture$1.7MHealth$647kFood & Nutrition$360kRecreation & Sports$115kHousing & Shelter$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $561k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE (ANNIE DUNNE FUND)$1,000,000
RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE (GLORIANA FUND)$400,000
OCEANSIDE MUSEUM OF ART$66,041
WILDCOAST$63,500
THE HUMAN NATURE CENTER$38,000
SAGE GARDEN PROJECT OF CALIFORNIA$35,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
DARNALL CHARTER SCHOOL$30,000
WATSONVILLE CHARTER SCHOOL OF THE ARTS$20,000
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
FOSTER ELEMENTARY$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
COMMON VISION$20,000
HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY$20,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 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

IL
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 118 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

118 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 77 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

118
60

Total granted

$14M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+13%

Still filing today

35%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
EnvironmentEducationInternationalArts & CultureFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +147%
  • NH
    NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $500k · revenue +17%
  • W
    WILDCOAST
    3× · 2023–2025 · $394k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • GD
    GLORIANA DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M
  • OU
    OXFORD UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $142k
  • NI
    NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGING
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
4
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
5
San Diego Society of Natural History

Conserving nature through science and discovery.

Arts & Culture
6
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
7
California Institute for Biodiversity

Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.

Education
8
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
9
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
10
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
11
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
12
California Institute of Environmental Studies

The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Explore Ecology; the most unlike its peers is Muttly Crew Inc. 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

68 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. 68 of the 192 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
48/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ANNIE DUNNE DONOR ADVISED FUND: $2,544,346 · OtherTHE ANNIE DUNNE DONOR ADVISED FUNDGLORIANA DONOR ADVISED FUND: $1,500,000 · OtherGLORIANA DONOR ADVISED FUNDRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE (ANNIE DUNNE FUND): $1,500,000 · OtherRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE (ANNIE DUNNE FUND)RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE (GLORIANA FUND): $550,000 · Other+144 more: $4,867,408 · Other+144 moreNATURE COLLECTIVE: $1,752,700 · EnvironmentNATURE COLLECTIVENATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $1,120,019 · EnvironmentNATURE AND CULTURE INTERNA…WILDCOAST: $393,500 · EnvironmentWILDCOASTThe Human Nature Center: $166,000 · EnvironmentSTRATEGIC ENERGY INNOVATIONS: $140,000 · Environment+14 more: $545,006 · Environment+14 moreRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND: $1,023,097 · PhilanthropyPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $90,630 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Health+2 more: $4,023 · HealthLife Lab Science Program: $135,382 · EducationOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $116,315 · EducationMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $77,000 · EducationDARNALL CHARTER SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationVISTA ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $30,315 · EducationSANTA ROSA ACADEMY INC: $24,315 · EducationCHEF ANN FOUNDATION: $20,800 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationOCEANSIDE MUSEUM OF ART: $186,041 · Arts & CultureOLD GLOBE THEATRE: $10,646 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $3,200 · Arts & CultureAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $40,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET: $9,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,045 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,000 · International+2 more: $2,500 · International
Other$10,961,754Environment$4,117,225Philanthropy$1,123,727Health$504,023Education$464,127Arts & Culture$199,887International$55,545

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATURE COLLECTIVE: $1,752,700 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetNATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $1,120,019 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND: $1,023,097 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWILDCOAST: $393,500 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetOcean Knoll PTA: $264,254 over 7y, 22% of budgetOCEANSIDE MUSEUM OF ART: $186,041 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetThe Human Nature Center: $166,000 over 5y, 90% of budgetSTRATEGIC ENERGY INNOVATIONS: $140,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLife Lab Science Program: $135,382 over 4y, 12% of budgetCOMMON VISION: $135,300 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $116,315 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDED DISCOVERIES INC: $103,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetECOLOGY CENTER: $102,416 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $90,630 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEXPLORE ECOLOGY: $88,250 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $77,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetDARNALL CHARTER SCHOOL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUDENTS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMCKINLEY PTA: $37,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetOne Cool Earth: $32,500 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetSHERMAN ELEMENTARY PTA: $30,630 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetVISTA ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $30,315 over 2y, 24% of budgetFOOD LITERACY CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA ROSA ACADEMY INC: $24,315 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHEF ANN FOUNDATION: $20,800 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCASITA CENTER PTA: $15,315 over 1y, 26% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $13,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLSB LEAKEY FDTN FOR RESEARCH RELATED TO HUMAN ORIGINS BEHAVIOR AND SURVIVAL: $11,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOLD GLOBE THEATRE: $10,646 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR SARCOIDOSIS RESEARCH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARL SAFINA CENTER INC THE SAFINA CENTER: $5,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNative American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKISS THE GROUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOODCORPS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBATIQUITOS LAGOON FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGREENPEACE INC: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,045 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $2,023 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds NATURE COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WILDCOAST ↗
  • Who funds Ocean Knoll PTA ↗
  • Who funds OCEANSIDE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds The Human Nature Center ↗
  • Who funds STRATEGIC ENERGY INNOVATIONS ↗
  • Who funds Life Lab Science Program ↗
  • Who funds COMMON VISION ↗
  • Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GUIDED DISCOVERIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EXPLORE ECOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗

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.

The San Diego Foundat…Rancho Santa Fe Found…Jewish Community Foun…The Sprouts Healthy C…Sempra FoundationRancho Santa Fe Garde…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Coastal Community Fou…David C Copley Founda…The Nordson Corporati…Clif Family FoundationPatagoniaorg
The San Diego FoundationCA25.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg

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 Wild Wisdom Foundation Inc (Formerly a Cerami & a Dunne Fdn for World Health) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wild Wisdom Foundation Inc (Formerly a Cerami & a Dunne Fdn for World Health). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 192 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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