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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.

$63k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 20
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$1.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Wings Up Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
HealthAnimalsEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving23$57k17%
FY202320$66k40%
FY202215$72k20%
FY202119$38k95%
FY20201$10kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$122kHealth$37kAnimals$32kPhilanthropy$22kCommunity Improvement$21kEnvironment$15kYouth Development$5kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
CA
CO
VA
AZ
KS
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Calvary Christian School Foundation$66,250521%
Loyola High School of Los Angeles$33,7003n/a
The DEA Educational Foundation$20,00041%
Plastic Oceans International$11,50041%
Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary$10,00040%
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation$9,00040%
The Brianna Kupfer Foundation$8,500232%
Surfaid International USA$8,00032%
Montana Horse Sanctuary Inc$6,00046%
Chapman University$6,00030%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Wings Up Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCalvary Christian School Foundation: $66,250 over 5y, 21% of budgetThe DEA Educational Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPlastic Oceans International: $11,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetYellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary: $10,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMonterey Bay Aquarium Foundation: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brianna Kupfer Foundation: $8,500 over 2y, 32% of budgetSurfaid International USA: $8,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetMontana Horse Sanctuary Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetChapman University: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Skatepark Project: $5,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLife Rolls on Foundation: $5,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetColgate University: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Sky Bravery Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArmy and Navy Academy Carlsbad California: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust USA Inc: $3,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildaid Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuiding Eyes for the Blind Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarlborough School: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Lung Association: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSaint John's Cancer Institute: $1,975 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe James Storehouse Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA14.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Wings Up Family Foundation

How much does Wings Up Family Foundation give?
Wings Up Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $63,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Wings Up Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (46%), Health (14%), Animals (12%).
Who are Wings Up Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Calvary Christian School Foundation ($66k), Loyola High School of Los Angeles ($34k), The DEA Educational Foundation ($20k).
Does Wings Up Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wings Up Family 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 Wings Up Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charities Aid Foundation America, California Community Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Wings Up Family Foundation based?
Wings Up Family Foundation is based in DE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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