· Private foundation
Wilson Sheehan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k8 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $661k
- $50k–250k30 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+8 grants · $7.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $4,000,000 |
| THE DREXEL FUNDS (DBA THE DREXEL FUND) | $1,275,635 |
| WORLD VISION | $500,000 |
| MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT | $333,334 |
| PER SCHOLAS | $333,333 |
| ROCKING HORSE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $315,533 |
| PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS | $300,000 |
| CORNER TO CORNER | $300,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA | $207,573 |
| CRISTO REY NETWORK | $190,881 |
| THE OAKS ACADEMY | $175,000 |
| CENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN (GEN JUSTICE) | $170,000 |
| WELLSPRING | $162,500 |
| ST JOSEPH FINANCIAL SERVICES INC | $125,000 |
| BETTER TOGETHER | $120,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Wilson Sheehan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +18% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
86 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 31 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCThe Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame4× · 2021–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +15%
- CRCRISTO REY NETWORK6× · 2020–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +66%
- RHROCKING HORSE CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER4× · 2022–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +28%
Funded once
- TSTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INCone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -38%
- MUMarian Universityone grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +14%
- GEGOODWILL EDUCATION INITIATIVES INCone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +24%
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.
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
Onegoal (the organization") is a nonprofit organization incorporated on june 13, 2003 to provide underserved students with the resources, support, and network to earn a postsecondary degree.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
In partnership with educators, CollegeSpring helps students impacted by poverty demonstrate their full potential on college and career readiness assessments that unlock better opportunities after high school. Our vision is that every…
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
To transform teaching and learning in the lowest-performing public schools so that every student, regardless of background, thrives.
To empower teens to achieve excellence in college, career, and community.
Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…
Higher education shapes the future of every community in america-determining who moves up the economic ladder, where good jobs develop, and how regions prosper. this promise depends on the public's ability to see and understand how their…
How this is measured
124 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. 124 of the 182 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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DREXEL FUND ↗
- Who funds ROCKING HORSE CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Stand Together Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING ↗
- Who funds The Oaks Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds BLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT ↗
- Who funds Corner To Corner ↗
- Who funds CHOOSING HOPE ADOPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Marian University ↗
- Who funds NORWALKSTAMFORD GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds THREAD INC ↗
- Who funds RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ZELIE'S HOME ↗
- Who funds OHIO TRI COUNTY FOOD ALLIANCE DBA SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION OF SPRINGFIELD-CLARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BETTER TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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: The Springfield Foundation · Community Hospital Health Services Foundation · Della Selsor Tr Uw · Dayton Foundation Depository · Harry and Violet Turner 95 Charitable Trust · The Dayton Foundation · Crabill Family Foundation · The United Way of Clark Champaign & Madison Counties Inc · Columbus Foundation · Park National Corporation Foundation · Walter S Quinlan Foundation · Mathile Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wilson Sheehan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wilson Sheehan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Five Points Center for the Visual Arts Inc: 75% of income from government
- Bridges from School to Work Inc: 33% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
- Thread Inc: 12% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: 4% of income from government
- West End House Inc: 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Banner Lake Club Inc: 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
- Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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