· Private foundation
Wildfong 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND TRAVERSE AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $28,500 |
| SAINT FRANCIS CHURCH | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $7,500 |
| GENERATIONS AHEAD | $6,000 |
| PARAKLESIS - PEACE RANCH | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $4,000 |
| MICHIGAN'S PREMIER BASEBALL | $1,600 |
| EASTERSEALS | $1,000 |
| REINING LIBERTY RANCH | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RLREINING LIBERTY RANCH7× · 2019–2025 · $5k · revenue +64%
- 2F231 FUSION FASTPITCH4× · 2019–2022 · $4k · revenue +115%
- MPMICHIGAN'S PREMIER BASEBALL INC2× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - GRAND TRAVone grant, 2019 · $5k
- GTGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMM FOUNDone grant, 2019 · $5k
- PCPOLESTAR COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2019 · $500
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.
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.
To promote team spirit and encourage youth to be more healthy through exercise and team work
Developing youth through travel sports to achieve higher objectives both on and off the field
Maintaining youth sports programs
Domestic violence shelter
Our mission is to not only develop young athletes into the best baseball players that they can be, but to develop the "whole" person. honesty, integrity, discipline, teamwork, and sportsmanship are at the core of all we do. the detroit…
To provide domestic and sexual violence crisis response, supportive counseling, and prevention services.
To promote physical fitness, sportsmanship and teamwork among young women by providing field rentals, equipment and tournament fees
To support and empower refugees, asylum seekers, and others seeking humanitarian protection on their journey to safety, security, and freedom by providing comprehensive services in an inclusive and welcoming space.
Youth travel baseball.
Lions youth softball is a youth sports training and development organization specializing in fast pitch softball for girls. the organization supports nearly 100 girls and their families from ages 8 to 16.
Provides at risk, and homeless veterans with temporary housing and supportive services, e.g., medical, vocational, psychological, and educational training to regain or improve their status in society.
To ensure that children who have experienced abuse and/or neglect are in safe and permanent homes by recruiting, screening and training volunteers to advocate on their behalf within the third judicial circuit court's family juvenile…
How this is measured
7 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. 7 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Oleson Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wildfong Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wildfong Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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