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Wilemon Foundation Inc

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.

$346k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$75k
Largest
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 2025.

Philanthropy$2.8MReligion$535kInternational$378kEducation$200kHousing & Shelter$60kHealth$49kHuman Services$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$12k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $94k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $242k
$11,200
Median grant
8
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLOBAL OUTREACH$75,000
EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE$60,000
CREATE FOUNDATION$55,000
GREEN VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH$52,000
HOPE OUTDOORS$25,000
WINSHAPE FOUNDATION$13,800
WILDWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH$12,000
SPRINGLIFE MINISTRIES$11,200
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$11,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,400
INTERNATIONAL FLSP CHRST & JEWS$10,200
MORE MINISTRIES$5,600
LOVE WORTH FINDING$1,200
JACK VAN IMPE MINISTRIES$1,200
BEREAN BAPTIST CHURCH$1,200
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 (FY25–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOPE OUTDOORS: $25k → 17%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

MI
TN
NC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 13 repeat orgs$122k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$1.1M
$12k

Still filing today

46%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
ReligionHealthInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $248k · revenue +36%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +134%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • FV
    FURRS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT
    one grant, 2019 · $12k
  • WG
    WHEELER GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $200
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
New Heart World Ministries
Religion
2
Faith Speaks World Outreach

World outreach

Religion
3
The J W Foundation
Philanthropy
4
God Is At Work Foundation
Religion
5
Todd Worldwide Ministries
Housing & Shelter
6
Global Gospel Initiative Inc
Religion
7
Gods Promise Ministries International

Religious Purposes

Housing & Shelter
8
God's Gift Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Gods Love Inc
—
10
Global Faith Network
Human Services
11
Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
12
The Rock Ministries

To preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the Nations

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Outreach International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Winshape Foundationinc. 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 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CREATE FOUNDATION: $2,837,256 · PhilanthropyCREATE FOUNDATION+1 more: $10,800 · PhilanthropyGREEN VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH: $299,197 · OtherGREEN VALLEY BAPTIS…HEBRON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $200,000 · OtherHEBRON CHRISTIAN AC…WILDWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH: $107,600 · OtherWILDWOOD BAPTIST CH…MORE MINISTRIES: $34,000 · Other+5 more: $59,915 · Other+5 moreGLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC: $248,000 · InternationalSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $129,600 · ReligionWINSHAPE FOUNDATIONINC: $13,800 · ReligionLOVE WORTH FINDING MINISTRIES INC: $10,800 · ReligionST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $49,400 · HealthSpring Life Ministries Inc: $11,200 · HealthEIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterHOPE OUTDOORS INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesJACK VAN IMPE MINISTRIES: $10,800 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$2,848,056Other$700,712International$248,000Religion$154,200Health$60,600Housing & Shelter$60,000Human Services$25,000Arts & Culture$10,800

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCREATE FOUNDATION: $2,837,256 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetGLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC: $248,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $129,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $49,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJACK VAN IMPE MINISTRIES: $10,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE WORTH FINDING MINISTRIES INC: $10,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWA CRISWELL FOUNDATION INC: $10,800 over 9y, 0.1% 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 CREATE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE OUTDOORS INC ↗
  • Who funds WINSHAPE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds Spring Life Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds JACK VAN IMPE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds LOVE WORTH FINDING MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds WA CRISWELL FOUNDATION INC ↗

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 Charitable Fdn IncGA10.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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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