California · Private foundation
William & Florence Wheeler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $328k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $64,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations William & Florence Wheeler Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $328k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $325k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $270k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $247k | 72% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $286k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $346k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $336k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $335k | 37% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Boys and Girls Clubs of Kern County | $287,625 | 8 | 1% |
| Bakersfield Catholic Education Foundation | $254,018 | 9 | 10% |
| Mendiburu Magic Foundation Against Cancer | $185,000 | 8 | 46% |
| Calm Inc | $160,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Friends of the Kern County Fair | $142,770 | 3 | 35% |
| California Reining Horse Association | $141,875 | 4 | 28% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $95,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Jacks Helping Hand Inc | $95,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Foundation | $55,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The California 4-H Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($817k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
William & Florence Wheeler Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Kern Community Foundation · Diane S Lake Charitable Trust Lake Diane S Ttee · Lazzerini Family Foundation · Robert Grimm Family Foundation · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · Valley Strong Cu Fka Kern Schools Federal Credit Union · Seedcore Foundation · Bakersfield West Rotary-Stroope Family Foundation · Bakersfield Memorial Hospital · Sempra Foundation · California Community Foundation · The California Endowment
How this is measured
Compare William & Florence Wheeler Foundation with peer funders
About William & Florence Wheeler Foundation
- How much does William & Florence Wheeler Foundation give?
- William & Florence Wheeler Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $327,692 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does William & Florence Wheeler Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (18%), Youth Development (15%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are William & Florence Wheeler Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Boys and Girls Clubs of Kern County ($288k), Bakersfield Catholic Education Foundation ($254k), Mendiburu Magic Foundation Against Cancer ($185k).
- Does William & Florence Wheeler Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William & Florence Wheeler Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William & Florence Wheeler Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kern Community Foundation, Diane S Lake Charitable Trust Lake Diane S Ttee, Lazzerini Family Foundation.
- Where is William & Florence Wheeler Foundation based?
- William & Florence Wheeler Foundation is based in CA.
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