· Private foundation
Wise Street Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WALLINGFORD FAMILY YMCA | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY | $3,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC | $2,947 |
| CT FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| MASTER'S MANNA | $2,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Wise Street Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +153% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2020, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SMST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $29k · revenue +262%
- YOYMCA OF WALLINGFORD INC4× · 2017–2020 · $18k · revenue +70%
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC4× · 2017–2020 · $18k · revenue +360%
Funded once
- HFHOPE FOR HAITIS CHILDRENone grant, 2018 · $5k
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +47%- WEWALLINGFORD EMERGENCY SHELTERone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Childfund's mission is to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities, and to promote societies whose individuals…
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…
Children's national coordinates the overall policy and activities of the affiliated organizations. see schedule o.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 35 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 ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF WALLINGFORD INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Master's Manna Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds BIKES FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL STROKE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wise Street Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wise Street Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Family & Children's Agency Inc: 47% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
- The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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