· Private foundation
Wish You Well Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMEN IMPACTING NEIGHBORHOODS | $50,000 |
| LITERACY COUNCIL OF THE OUACHITAS | $10,000 |
| VALLEY SETTLEMENT | $10,000 |
| LEWISBURG LITERARY GROUP INC | $10,000 |
| CASA DE AMISTAD | $9,500 |
| A NEW LEAF | $8,000 |
| INCLINE EDUCATION FUND | $5,500 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF MORRIS COUNTY | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WINCHESTER | $5,000 |
| TORRANCE-SOUTH BAY YMCA | $5,000 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS CENTENARY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| LITERACY COUNCIL OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY | $4,000 |
| BERNARDINE FRANCISCAN SISTERS | $3,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +60% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
- LVLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF3× · 2019–2023 · $36k
- MHMONROE HARDING INC2× · 2019–2020 · $13k · revenue +22%
- PLPROJECT LITERACY OF GREATER2× · 2019–2021 · $10k
Funded once
- LCLAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -1%
- LVLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN &one grant, 2022 · $28k
- TMTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIALgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +59%
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.
The literacy for life organization transforms the community, empowering individuals by removing barriers to success and strengthening relationships through the power of literacy. 1. reach out to all adults needing reading, writing,…
The Literacy Connection is a community-based organization helping adults learners in Elgin and the surrounding northwest suburban area acquire fundamental literacy skills.
Empowering adults to achieve literacy and improve their quality of life.
To teach adult literacy skills
The mission of The Literacy Center is to provide literacy services and educational support to individuals and families seeking to acquire the skills needed to attain personal and employment goals.
Our mission is success through lifelong learning and learning for life. our vision is for adults to have the skills to transform their lives, sustain their families and strengthen their communities.
The organization provides educational services to under-educated residents of Madison County Virginia: ELL training, basic literacy, GED preparation, introductions to technology.
The Learning Center supports adults in their pursuit of an educational path to more confident and effective living. For 42 years, TLC has empowered adults for effective personal lives, productive employment, and positive contribution to…
Free literacy and numeracy tutoring for adults, free GED classes for adults.
Provide Adult Literacy, GED preparation and English as a second language (ESL) to adults, 16 and older.
To provide social and economic empowerment through culturally compassionate english language education.
Develop local adult's reading, writing, speaking, and math skills. dedicated and trained tutors, work one-on-one with students using personalized lesson plans at a pace that is comfortable for the student.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Read to Succeed and the most unlike its peers is Staten Island Giving Circle 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
82 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 82 of the 141 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 LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IMPACTING NEIGHBORHOODS ↗
- Who funds THE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds MONROE HARDING INC ↗
- Who funds Racine Literacy Council Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CARE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY WORKS ↗
- Who funds PRISON BOOK PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds STEPS INC ↗
- Who funds ST GABRIEL MERCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COALINGA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds READING TO NEW HEIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds CROSS OVER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRAINING KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds BUTTE LITERACY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY ALLIANCE OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HOTEL INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
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: Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Proliteracy Worldwide · Gannett Foundation Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · Grapevine giving foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Wish You Well 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.
- Quincy Asian Resources Inc — 43% of income from government
- Havenly — 40% of income from government
- The Mark Twain Memorial — 22% of income from government
- Portland Literacy Council Inc — 0% of income from government
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.