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Wise 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k45 grants · $189k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $535k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HILL SCHOOL (PA) | $60,000 |
| BUCHANAN HALL | $60,000 |
| FLAGLER COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $50,000 |
| FLAGLER MUSEUM | $35,000 |
| FAUQUIER FREE CLINIC | $30,000 |
| FAUQUIER COUNTY FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| SEVEN LOAVES FOOD PANTRY | $20,000 |
| VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS | $20,000 |
| FAUQUIER FAMILY SHELTER SERVICES | $20,000 |
| BOULDER CREST RETREAT FOR WOUNDED WARRIORS | $20,000 |
| FAUQUIER COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| PATRIOTS 4 | $15,000 |
| THE PLAINS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $15,000 |
| MARSHALL VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $288k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 71% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 6 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
- FCFLAGLER COLLEGE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $600k · revenue +48%
- THTHE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG4× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +68%
- TPTHE PLAINS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $189k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PAVILION PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $100k
- MSMIDDLEBURG SPRING RACE ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +70%
- WSWAKEFIELD SCHOOL INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +7%
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.
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
To serve as the region's leading source of informational science education through interactive science demonstrations, hands-on education programs and outreach programs.
Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…
The mission of washington heritage museums is to preserve, promote and maintain its five 18th century properties in fredericksburg, virginia and develop dynamic educational resources and programs to engage and inspire the intrest of…
To provide a montessori education for children, from birth to ninth grade, for the surrounding virginia counties of fauquier, prince william, culpeper, loudoun, warren, clarke and fairfax.
The establishment and operation of a child learning/daycare facility for the use, benefit, and general welfare of the children of rappahannock county, virginia.
Our mission is to provide an accessible, safe, and nurturing environment in which school-aged children learn, grow, and play to promote the development of the whole child.
The association promotes the harness racing industry in virginia by promoting harness racing in virginia, and by promoting the breeding of virginia-bred standardbreds.
To preserve and interpret the history of agriculture and rural life in loudoun county for future generations through educational programs.
Great meadow foundation, inc.'s purpose is to preserve and protect open space, visual order, flora and fauna, and air, land and water resources for the benefit of the general public and to perpetuate, and to further public education,…
Discover, Conserve, Interpret and disseminate knowledge of Loudouns Culture and History.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The George Washington Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Grace Montessori School Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 118 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 FLAGLER COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG ↗
- Who funds THE PLAINS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds WARRENTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Marshall Volunteer Fire Dept Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER FAMILY SHELTER SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BUCHANAN HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FAUQUIER INC ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds OLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds VERDUN ADVENTURE BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT REGIONAL ORCHESTRA DBA PIEDMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PLAINS COMMUNITY LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTS 4 INC ↗
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: Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · Dun Foundation · Northern Piedmont Community Foundation · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · The Jesse and Rose Loeb Foundation Inc · William M Backer Foundation Inc · The Van Metre Family Foundation Inc · The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · Frank Mangano Foundation · Awa Family Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · The Hall Family Foundation Inc
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 Wise 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.
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