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Wille Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$800k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$207k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$1.1MHealth$316kFood & Nutrition$272kArts & Culture$164kHousing & Shelter$72kYouth Development$45kEnvironment$35kCrime & Legal$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $367k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $389k
$11,700
Median grant
13
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUNRISE SCHOOL OF MIAMI INC$207,000
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL$70,000
THE ALGEBRA PROJECT$60,000
BAKEHOUSE ART COMPLEX$52,000
CITY HARVEST$45,000
MEALS ON WHEELS BOULDER$37,000
POMFRET SCHOOL INC$30,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$25,000
COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC$25,000
DENVER WALDORF SCHOOL$25,000
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS$20,000
OPPORTUNITY INC$20,000
ELON UNIVERSITY$20,000
PREP FOR PREP$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
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 (FY23–25, $10k) 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%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $4k → 17%Harlem Children's Zone Inc: $3k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $3k → 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

IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
TN
NC
LA
GA
TX
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.
$1.8M · 27 repeat orgs$297k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
7

Total granted

$1.8M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+16%

Still filing today

78%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $262k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionInternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RA
    REMOTE AREA MEDICAL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $210k · revenue +69%
  • TA
    THE ALGEBRA PROJECT INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $176k · revenue +36%
  • BA
    BAKEHOUSE ART COMPLEX INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $137k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +20%
  • FF
    Foundation for Individual Rights
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
4
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
7
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
8
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
11
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pomfret School Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression 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

29 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. 29 of the 41 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUNRISE SCHOOL OF MIAMI INC: $207,000 · EducationSUNRISE SCHOOL OF MIAMI INCTHE ALGEBRA PROJECT INC: $176,000 · EducationTHE ALGEBRA PROJECT INCPREP FOR PREP: $105,000 · EducationPREP FOR PREPTHE DENVER WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · EducationTHE DENVER WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $85,000 · EducationPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATEDElon University: $57,500 · EducationElon UniversityKHAN ACADEMY INC: $26,000 · Education+3 more: $15,000 · EducationSunrise School: $300,000 · OtherSunrise SchoolOPPORTUNITY INC: $45,000 · OtherOPPORTUNITY INCMass General Hospital: $40,000 · OtherMass General HospitalCAMILLUS HOUSE INC: $31,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $27,500 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $25,000 · OtherNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $26,300 · OtherROSE ANDOM CENTER INC: $30,000 · Other+12 more: $99,600 · Other+12 moreCITY HARVEST INC: $90,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST I…MEALS ON WHEELS OF BOULDER INC: $77,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEEL…COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $65,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD…Feeding America: $29,600 · Food & NutritionFeeding Americ…REMOTE AREA MEDICAL: $210,000 · InternationalREMOTE AREA…+1 more: $2,500 · InternationalBAKEHOUSE ART COMPLEX INC: $137,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY GARDEN CHARITABLE FUND INC: $31,600 · EnvironmentDEBRIS FREE GLOBAL INC D/B/A DEBRIS FREE OCEANS: $13,700 · EnvironmentHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $40,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$771,500Other$625,100Food & Nutrition$261,600International$212,500Arts & Culture$147,000Environment$45,300Housing & Shelter$40,000

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 budgetREMOTE AREA MEDICAL: $210,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSUNRISE SCHOOL OF MIAMI INC: $207,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE ALGEBRA PROJECT INC: $176,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetBAKEHOUSE ART COMPLEX INC: $137,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $105,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DENVER WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $85,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF BOULDER INC: $77,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetElon University: $57,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMILLUS HOUSE INC: $31,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY GARDEN CHARITABLE FUND INC: $31,600 over 3y, 76% of budgetROSE ANDOM CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFeeding America: $29,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $26,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $14,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDEBRIS FREE GLOBAL INC D/B/A DEBRIS FREE OCEANS: $13,700 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetWILDLIFE SOS: $10,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $2,500 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.

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.

Mightycause Charitabl…Renaissance Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Wille Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wille Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Camillus House Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Bakehouse Art Complex Inc: 2% of income from government
  • United Way of Palm Beach County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sunrise School of Miami Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
6report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Wille Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wille Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 41 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home