· Private foundation
Wilson W Phelps 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $250k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $384k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fullerton Joint Union High Sch Dist | $129,525 |
| Fullerton School District | $76,556 |
| Community Action Partnership | $75,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club | $52,500 |
| Hart Community Homes Inc | $50,000 |
| Cal State University Fullerton | $45,000 |
| Young Lives Redeemed | $35,000 |
| SCRPA- Fullerton Train Museum | $35,000 |
| Tara's Chance | $25,000 |
| Advance On to College | $25,000 |
| Meals on Wheels of Fullerton Inc | $25,000 |
| Higher Ground Youth Family Services | $25,000 |
| PEO | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Radiant Futures | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
37 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- YLYOUNG LIVES REDEEMED8× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +772%
- TCTARAS CHANCE6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +454%
- HCHART COMMUNITY HOMES INC3× · 2020–2025 · $106k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- FUFullerton Union High Sch Districtone grant, 2017 · $59k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
- CCCSUF Center for Healthy Neighborsone grant, 2021 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To help people with developmental disabilities reach their highest potential and guide them through their special needs journey.
To assist men suffering from alcoholism begin both their recovery and integration back into society
Recovery housing for women/children
Assist members pursuit of advancement
To educate, advocate and litigate for civil rights and health rights in California.
General upkeep of facility for housing
To provide exemplary extracurricular musical theatre opportunities to youth.
To create trauma-informed workplaces for individuals experiencing employment barriers such as poverty, homelessness, inexperience, and limited education.
We exist to empower the vulnerable who have experienced the breakdown of the family unit through restorative relationships and life-skills development. we serve those who have experienced foster care, domestic abuse, homelessness, and…
We partner closely with community organizations, local nonprofits, resettlement agencies, religious institutions and passionate volunteers focused on helping refugees, asylum-seekers and humanitarian parolees resettle in Southern…
To promote the understanding of chineseheritage and to serve the local community through educational andcultural exchange activities. to preserve and cultivate chinese tradition, art,andculture. and to promote thr unity of the chinese…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muckenthaler Cultural Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Action Alliance Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds YOUNG LIVES REDEEMED ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF FULLERTON INC ↗
- Who funds TARAS CHANCE ↗
- Who funds HART COMMUNITY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds JOYA SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds MUCKENTHALER CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE ↗
- Who funds WOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES ↗
- Who funds RENEWABLE FARMS ↗
- Who funds Southern California Railway Plaza Association Incorporated ↗
- Who funds ALL THE ARTS FOR ALL THE KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTH ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JAZZ ↗
- Who funds ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE EAGLE FREE INC ↗
- Who funds The Troy Support Organization ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · John H Grace Foundation · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · O L Halsell Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Wilson W Phelps Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.