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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.

$944k
Granted FY2024still arriving
86
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$2.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.2MArts & Culture$767kHealth$683kHuman Services$617kRecreation & Sports$573kAnimals$478kHousing & Shelter$309kOther$0
02FY2024 · 86 grants

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
$6,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 8%PATRIOTS 4: $15k → 16%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $20k → 9%PATRIOTS 4: $15k → 16%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $20k → 9%PATRIOTS 4: $15k → 16%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $20k → 9%PATRIOTS 4: $15k → 16%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $15k → 9%PATRIOTS 4: $15k → 16%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $15k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $15k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $15k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $10k → 9%HIGHLAND SCHOOL: $54k → 6%HIGHLAND SCHOOL: $29k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
PA
CA
WV
VA
MD
NC
SC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.5M · 97 repeat orgs$346k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
14

Total granted

$7.5M
$267k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+7%

Still filing today

54%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • FC
    FLAGLER COLLEGE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $600k · revenue +48%
  • TH
    THE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG
    4× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +68%
  • TP
    THE PLAINS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $189k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PAVILION PROJECT
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • MS
    MIDDLEBURG SPRING RACE ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +70%
  • WS
    WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC
    one 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.

04Your field

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.

1
Historic Virginia Land Conservancy

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.

Environment
2
The Virginia Air & Space Center

To serve as the region's leading source of informational science education through interactive science demonstrations, hands-on education programs and outreach programs.

Arts & Culture
3
Hampshire Country School

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…

4
Washington Heritage Museums

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Mountainside Montessori

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.

Education
6
The Child Care and Learning Center

The establishment and operation of a child learning/daycare facility for the use, benefit, and general welfare of the children of rappahannock county, virginia.

Education
7
Fauquier Community Child Care Inc

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.

Human Services
8
Virginia Harness Horse Association

The association promotes the harness racing industry in virginia by promoting harness racing in virginia, and by promoting the breeding of virginia-bred standardbreds.

Community Improvement
9
Loudoun Heritage Farm Museum

To preserve and interpret the history of agriculture and rural life in loudoun county for future generations through educational programs.

Arts & Culture
10
Great Meadow Foundation Inc

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,…

Environment
11
Loudoun Museum Inc

Discover, Conserve, Interpret and disseminate knowledge of Loudouns Culture and History.

Arts & Culture
12
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHospital Support Organizati…Youth and Community Sports …Rural Community DevelopmentAgriculture & Equine Indust…Independent K-12 SchoolsVolunteer Fire and RescueConservation and Historic P…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr14%19%20–35yr15%28%35–55yr15%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr14%9%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr14%15%20–35yr15%37%35–55yr15%29%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/70
the rest of the field
13%
6,446/50,398

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/64
Grantees still filing
48/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FLAGLER MUSEUM — $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherMARSHALL VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD — $189,000 · OtherORLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE DEPARTMENT — $189,000 · OtherMarshall Volunteer Fire Dept Inc — $189,000 · OtherFAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC — $175,000 · Other+86 more — $3,852,500 · Other+86 moreFLAGLER COLLEGE INC — $600,000 · EducationFLAGLER COLLEGE INCTHE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG — $200,000 · EducationTHE HILL SCHOOL COR…BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE — $175,000 · EducationBRIDGEWATER COLLEGETHE HILL SCHOOL — $130,000 · EducationTHE HILL SCHOOLOLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC — $100,000 · EducationOLDFIELDS SCHOOL IN…+5 more — $163,000 · Education+5 moreTHE PLAINS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC — $189,000 · Public Safety & DisasterWARRENTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC — $189,000 · Public Safety & DisasterVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS — $130,000 · Human ServicesHIGHLAND SCHOOL INC — $83,000 · Human ServicesPATRIOTS 4 INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesPIEDMONT CHILD CARE CENTER INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesFAUQUIER FAMILY SHELTER SERVICES — $150,000 · Housing & ShelterFAUQUIER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $120,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $106,000 · EnvironmentTHE LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA INC — $75,000 · EnvironmentFOUNDATION OF THE STATE ARBORETUM OF VIRGINIA — $40,000 · EnvironmentMIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION — $80,000 · AnimalsA FOREVER-HOME RESCUE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · AnimalsTHE OPOSSUM POUCH RESCUE AND REHABILITATION — $31,500 · AnimalsFAUQUIER SPCA INC — $30,000 · Animals+1 more — $1,000 · Animals
Other$5,094,500Education$1,368,000Public Safety & Disaster$378,000Human Services$328,000Housing & Shelter$270,000Environment$221,000Animals$192,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFLAGLER COLLEGE INC — $600,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG — $200,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PLAINS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC — $189,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetWARRENTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC — $189,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetMarshall Volunteer Fire Dept Inc — $189,000 over 8y, 10.0% of budgetBRIDGEWATER COLLEGE — $175,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC — $175,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetFAUQUIER FAMILY SHELTER SERVICES — $150,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS — $130,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL — $130,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBUCHANAN HALL CORPORATION — $128,000 over 8y, 28% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC — $120,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFAUQUIER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $120,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FAUQUIER INC — $110,000 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $106,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetOLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC — $100,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHIGHLAND SCHOOL INC — $83,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVERDUN ADVENTURE BOUND INC — $80,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetPIEDMONT REGIONAL ORCHESTRA DBA PIEDMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $80,000 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetMIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PLAINS COMMUNITY LEAGUE — $75,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetPATRIOTS 4 INC — $75,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA INC — $75,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetBLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER — $70,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetMIDDLEBURG SPRING RACE ASSOCIATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetA FOREVER-HOME RESCUE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetMIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $46,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetSTRATFORD HALL — $42,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPIEDMONT CHILD CARE CENTER INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE STATE ARBORETUM OF VIRGINIA — $40,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM — $40,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA 4-H EDUCATIONAL CENTER — $40,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetVIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLEARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC — $39,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMIDDLEBURG MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $38,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER — $33,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE OPOSSUM POUCH RESCUE AND REHABILITATION — $31,500 over 4y, 19% of budgetFAUQUIER SPCA INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLAUREL RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF THE PIEDMONT INC — $29,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetWAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGRACE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $22,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $21,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN PIEDMONT SPORTS CLUB INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budget
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.

Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path FoundationVA56.3× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Wise Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Wise Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 118 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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