· Private foundation
William F and Mary Louise Wischmeyer Philanthropic Fund
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY | $250,000 |
| FOREST PARK FOREVER | $100,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +149% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LFLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +149%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY4× · 2019–2025 · $285k · revenue +44%- TTThe Tower Grove Park Foundation2× · 2019–2021 · $125k · revenue +216%
Funded once
- CLCHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH OF WEBSTER GROVESone grant, 2024 · $100k
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +50%- MTMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS (THE MUNY)one grant, 2021 · $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.
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.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
To acquire, maintain, improve, leverage, manage, lease, and convey real and personal property for the benefit of the university of louisville.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 10 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Tower Grove Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING 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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William F and Mary Louise Wischmeyer Philanthropic Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William F and Mary Louise Wischmeyer Philanthropic Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
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