· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k45 grants · $189k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $535k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUCHANAN HALL | $60,000 |
| THE HILL SCHOOL (PA) | $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 |
| FAUQUIER COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS | $20,000 |
| FAUQUIER FAMILY SHELTER SERVICES | $20,000 |
| BOULDER CREST RETREAT FOR WOUNDED WARRIORS | $20,000 |
| SEVEN LOAVES FOOD PANTRY | $20,000 |
| HOSPICE OF FAUQUIER COUNTY INC | $15,000 |
| MARSHALL VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD | $15,000 |
| ORLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE DEPARTMENT | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FCFLAGLER COLLEGE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $600k · revenue +48%
- THTHE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG4× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +68%
- WVWARRENTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $189k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PAVILION PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $100k
- MSMIDDLEBURG SPRING RACE ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +70%
- PHPOTTERS HOUSEone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
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…
How this is measured
64 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. 64 of the 118 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 FLAGLER COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG ↗
- Who funds WARRENTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Marshall Volunteer Fire Dept Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PLAINS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER FAMILY SHELTER SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS ↗
- Who funds BUCHANAN HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT 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 MIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VERDUN ADVENTURE BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT REGIONAL ORCHESTRA DBA PIEDMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTS 4 INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wise Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wise Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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