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Wiley H and James C Wheat Jr Foundation at a glance

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Wiley H and James C Wheat Jr Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$750
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% 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
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$82k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ESSEX CO MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOC$500
VSSR PATROITS FUND$250
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $1k → 9%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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$72k · 7 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
24

Total granted

$72k
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+49%

Still filing today

43%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalEnvironmentHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SM
    ST MARGARET'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2023 · $36k · revenue -69%
  • V
    VFIC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $21k
  • GC
    GRACE COVENANT CHURCH
    4× · 2017–2020 · $12k

Funded once

  • HC
    HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $36k · revenue +76%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $16k
  • UA
    UVA ATHLETIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $16k
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
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
2
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
3
William & Mary Foundation

The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…

Education
4
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
5
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc

Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.

Education
6
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
7
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
8
The Virginia College Fund

Solicitation of public contributions on behalf of member colleges. provides foundations, businesses, and individuals a convenient way of supporting small colleges and universities in virginia.

Education
9
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
10
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
11
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.

Education
12
The University of Virginia Medical School Foundation

The university of virginia medical alumni association and medical school foundation is dedicated to enhancing the experience of students, housestaff, alumni and faculty of the uva school of medicine by creating opportunities for mentoring,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VFIC: $20,500 · OtherVFICIndividual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUVA ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $16,000 · OtherUVA ATHLETIC FOUNDATIONVCU FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherVCU FOUNDATIONGRACE COVENANT CHURCH: $11,760 · OtherGRACE COVENANT CHURCHVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $8,000 · OtherVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITYVAF: $8,000 · OtherVAFST JAMES CHURCH: $6,000 · Other+12 more: $15,100 · Other+12 moreST MARGARET'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $36,000 · EducationST MARGARET'S SCHOOL FOUNDATIONHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $35,805 · EducationHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGEVA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $7,000 · EducationVA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGESMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION+1 more: $1,000 · EducationWORLD PEDIATRICS: $7,500 · InternationalVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4,000 · Arts & CultureJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $250 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $1,250 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $500 · HealthFRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY: $1,500 · EnvironmentVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$116,360Education$84,805International$7,500Arts & Culture$4,350Health$1,750Environment$1,500Human Services$1,000

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 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
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 ST MARGARET'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
  • Who funds VA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds St Andrew's School ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
  • Who funds JAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗

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 Chari…The Mary Morton Parso…The Ruth Camp Campbel…Robert G Cabell III a…Richard S Reynolds Fo…The Community Foundat…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wiley H and James C Wheat Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wiley H and James C Wheat Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’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
    4report 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 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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