· 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 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
- 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 |
| Advance On to College | $25,000 |
| Meals on Wheels of Fullerton Inc | $25,000 |
| Tara's Chance | $25,000 |
| Higher Ground Youth Family Services | $25,000 |
| PEO | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Radiant Futures | $10,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 47 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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wilson W Phelps Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wilson W Phelps Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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