· Private foundation
Wilshire Foundation
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW EQUINE SCHOLA | $10,500 |
| KERR COUNTY FLOOD RELIEF FUND | $5,000 |
| TEXAS CHRISTION UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW SYNDICATE | $3,000 |
| CANCER CARE SERVICES | $2,500 |
| TARRANT COUNTY FOOD BANK | $1,500 |
| BIRVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY | $1,000 |
| CASA OF TARRANT COUNTY | $1,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $1,000 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF FORT WORTH | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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 +77% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 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, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FEFWSSR EQUINE SCHOLARSHIP FUND2× · 2023–2024 · $21k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2021–2022 · $17k
- FWFORT WORTH SPORTSMENS CLUB5× · 2020–2025 · $16k
Funded once
- FPFreed Peoplegraduated2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +48%
- FSFWSSR SCHOLARSHIP CLAY SHOOTone grant, 2021 · $1k
- UGUNION GOSPEL MISSIONone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
Ducks unlimited, inc. conserves, restores, and manages wetlands and associated habitats for north america's waterfowl. these habitats also benefit additional wildlife and people.
Thompson Cancer Survival Center provides support services for cancer patients, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to…
To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.
Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.
Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Young Texans Against Cancer is a network of motivated young professionals collectively working together to raise awareness and funds to support the local Dallas cancer community. The Dallas chapter was established in 2007, as part of a…
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
VolunteerNow transforms lives through volunteers. As the hub of volunteerism in North Texas, and a national thought leader, VolunteerNow provides a wide range of programs and services to build capacity for nonprofit and community…
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 28 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wilshire Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wilshire Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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