California · 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.
- $663k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $129,525
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Wilson W Phelps Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | 20 | $663k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $599k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $590k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $599k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $469k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $527k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $458k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $474k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Lives Redeemed | $190,000 | 8 | 13% |
| Meals on Wheels of Fullerton Inc | $145,000 | 9 | 16% |
| Taras Chance | $110,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Hart Community Homes Inc | $105,700 | 3 | 2% |
| Joya Scholars | $104,000 | 7 | 14% |
| Muckenthaler Cultural Center Foundation | $92,650 | 6 | 2% |
| Advance | $75,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Womens Transitional Living Center Inc Radiant Futures | $60,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Renewable Farms | $50,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Southern California Railway Plaza Association Incorporated | $48,000 | 4 | 68% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Lives Redeemed | $190,000 | 8 | 13% |
| Meals on Wheels of Fullerton Inc | $145,000 | 9 | 16% |
| Taras Chance | $110,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Hart Community Homes Inc | $105,700 | 3 | 2% |
| Joya Scholars | $104,000 | 7 | 14% |
| Muckenthaler Cultural Center Foundation | $92,650 | 6 | 2% |
| Advance | $75,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Womens Transitional Living Center Inc Radiant Futures | $60,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Renewable Farms | $50,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Southern California Railway Plaza Association Incorporated | $48,000 | 4 | 68% |
| All the Arts for All the Kids Foundation | $35,513 | 3 | 4% |
| Young Womens Christian Association of North Orange County | $30,165 | 2 | 6% |
| Friends of Jazz | $24,500 | 5 | 7% |
| Hoops and Stars Inc | $20,100 | 2 | n/a |
| Action Alliance Foundation | $16,960 | 2 | 1% |
| Little Eagle Free Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 8% |
| The Troy Support Organization | $12,184 | 2 | 8% |
| Assistance League of Fullerton | $9,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Fullerton Rotary Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 3% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wilson W Phelps Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 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: 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
How this is measured
About Wilson W Phelps Foundation
- How much does Wilson W Phelps Foundation give?
- Wilson W Phelps Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $662,981 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wilson W Phelps Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Health (9%).
- Who are Wilson W Phelps Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Lives Redeemed ($190k), Meals on Wheels of Fullerton Inc ($145k), Taras Chance ($110k).
- Does Wilson W Phelps Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wilson W Phelps Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wilson W Phelps Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, John H Grace Foundation, American Woodmark Foundation Inc.
- Where is Wilson W Phelps Foundation based?
- Wilson W Phelps Foundation is based in CA.
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