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Wiley H and James C Wheat Jr Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$750
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
57%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$82k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Wiley H and James C Wheat Jr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$750100%
FY20237$15k57%
FY20222$23k100%
FY20213$17k67%
FY20201$3k0%
FY20194$17k50%
FY20187$18k43%
FY201718$123kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$103kArts & Culture$27kReligion$21kRecreation & Sports$18kHealth$16kEnvironment$3kYouth Development$2kHuman Services$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Wiley H and James C Wheat Jr Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Margaret's School Foundation$36,00032%
Hampden-Sydney College$35,80510%
World Pediatrics$7,50010%
Va Foundation for Independent Colleges$7,00010%
Medical College of Va Foundation$5,00010%
Virginia Historical Society$4,00010%
Friends of Hollywood Cemetery$1,50020%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$1,25020%
St Andrew's School$1,00010%
Virginia Home for Boys and Girls$1,00010%
Autism Speaks Inc$50010%
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc$25010%
The Valentine Museum$10010%

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($116k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wiley H and James C Wheat Jr Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Margaret's School Foundation: $36,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetHampden-Sydney College: $35,805 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Pediatrics: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVa Foundation for Independent Colleges: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMedical College of Va Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Historical Society: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Hollywood Cemetery: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Andrew's School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Home for Boys and Girls: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Speaks Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Valentine Museum: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Dominion Energy Charitable FoundationVA17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Ruth Camp Campbell Foundation Inc · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

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About Wiley H and James C Wheat Jr Foundation

How much does Wiley H and James C Wheat Jr Foundation give?
Wiley H and James C Wheat Jr Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Wiley H and James C Wheat Jr Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (47%), Arts & Culture (12%), Religion (10%).
Who are Wiley H and James C Wheat Jr Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: St Margaret's School Foundation ($36k), Hampden-Sydney College ($36k), World Pediatrics ($8k).
Does Wiley H and James C Wheat Jr Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wiley H and James C Wheat Jr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wiley H and James C Wheat Jr Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation, The Ruth Camp Campbell Foundation Inc.
Where is Wiley H and James C Wheat Jr Foundation based?
Wiley H and James C Wheat Jr Foundation is based in VA.

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 33 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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