· Private foundation
Wings Up Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALVARY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL OF LOS ANGELES | $7,500 |
| SPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| THE DEA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| YELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY | $2,500 |
| PLASTIC OCEANS INTERNATIONAL | $2,500 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SURFAID INTERNATIONAL USA | $2,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $2,000 |
| LIFE ROLLS ON FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
23 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TDThe DEA Educational Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +34%
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +82%- CUCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY3× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- WIWILDAID INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +8%
- TUTROUT UNLIMITEDone grant, 2021 · $3k
- NWNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +37%
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Plastic Oceans International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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. 28 of the 35 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 CALVARY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The DEA Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds PLASTIC OCEANS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRIANNA KUPFER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SURFAID INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MONTANA HORSE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SKATEPARK PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LIFE ROLLS ON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARMY AND NAVY ACADEMY CARLSBAD CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDAID INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES STOREHOUSE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
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: Charities Aid Foundation America · California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Wings Up Family 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.