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Wish You Well Foundation at a glance

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Wish You Well Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$122k
Granted FY2026still arriving
25
Grants FY2026still arriving
18
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$530kReligion$184kHuman Services$100kCommunity Improvement$53kArts & Culture$40kHousing & Shelter$35kYouth Development$33kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0
02FY2026 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k23 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$157k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEARN TO READ OF ST LUCIE COUNTY INC$10,000
SISTERS OF HOPE CORPORATION$10,000
CHEMEKETA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$9,868
PONTOTOC COUNTY LITERACY COALITION$9,000
LITERACY COUNCIL OF CARROLL COUNTY$8,500
LIVINGSTON COUNTY LITERACY COALITION$7,500
GRATIOT FINDLAY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION$7,500
SHELBY LITERACY CENTER$6,500
SPRINGHOUSE$5,000
WILLISTON STATE COLLEGE FDN$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
BRUSH COUNTRY LITERACY COUNCIL INC$5,000
SAGE HAWK FOUNDATION$5,000
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOUTHERN CT$4,500
LITERACY FOR ADULTS IN BREVARD INC$3,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IMMIGRANT HOPE SANTA BARBARA: $4k → 14%WOMEN IMPACTING NEIGHBORHOODS: $50k → 13%SWEETWATER MISSION INC: $5k → 8%COMMUNITY MATTERS CINCINNATI INC: $3k → 16%ST GABRIEL -MERCY CENTER: $10k → 29%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $150k → 8%QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC: $10k → 7%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

8%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$103k · 8 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2026, 5 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
132

Total granted

$103k
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+20%

Still filing today

50%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2019–2023 · $36k
  • SL
    SHELBY LITERACY CENTER
    2× · 2019–2026 · $15k · revenue -48%
  • MH
    MONROE HARDING INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $13k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • LC
    LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -1%
  • WI
    WOMEN IMPACTING NEIGHBORHOODS
    one grant, 2025 · $50k · 66% of their budget
  • LV
    LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN &
    one grant, 2022 · $28k
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.

04Its field

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.

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Learning for All
Education
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Volusia Literacy Council Inc

To create/maintain/organize a network of volunteer tutors to teach adults aged 18 or older, who perform below a 9th grade level, to complete basic literacy tasks including, but not limited to, functional reading, writing, English as a…

Education
3
Literacy for Life Organization

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,…

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4
Sumter County Literacy Center

To teach adult literacy skills

Education
5
Literacy Volunteers of Maricopa County Inc

Empowering adults to achieve literacy and improve their quality of life.

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6
The Literacy Center Inc

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.

Education
7
Lincoln Literacy Council

To strengthen our community by teaching the english language and various literacy skills to people of all cultures.

Education
8
Tri-State Literacy Council Inc

Free literacy and numeracy tutoring for adults, free GED classes for adults.

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9
The Learning Center House of Connections

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…

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10
Literacy Council of Madison County

The organization provides educational services to under-educated residents of Madison County Virginia: ELL training, basic literacy, GED preparation, introductions to technology.

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11
Brunswick County Literacy Council Inc

Provide Adult Literacy, GED preparation and English as a second language (ESL) to adults, 16 and older.

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12
Fond Du Lac Adult Literacy Services Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Read to Succeed; 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.
04the grantee network

89 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 89 of the 163 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/89
Grantees still filing
52/89
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $35,500 · OtherLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN &: $28,214 · Other+107 more: $658,950 · Other+107 moreLAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesLAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTR…WOMEN IMPACTING NEIGHBORHOODS: $50,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN IMPACTING NEIGHB…ST GABRIEL MERCY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesQUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC: $10,000 · Human Services+5 more: $18,500 · Human Services+5 moreNASHVILLE ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $10,000 · EducationBUTTE LITERACY PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · EducationVALLEY SETTLEMENT: $10,000 · EducationTHE CARE GROUP INC: $10,000 · EducationLITERACY WORKS: $10,000 · EducationCasa De Amistad Inc: $9,500 · EducationLITERACY COUNCIL OF CARROLL COUNTY INC: $8,500 · EducationEthos Literacy: $7,500 · EducationTHE BOOK TRUCK INC: $7,500 · EducationLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT: $7,000 · Education+30 more: $119,300 · Education+30 moreTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCOALINGA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropySTATEN ISLAND GIVING CIRCLE INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyPRISON BOOK PROGRAM: $10,000 · Crime & LegalTHE TRAINING KITCHEN: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$722,664Human Services$238,500Education$209,300Arts & Culture$20,000Philanthropy$12,500Crime & Legal$10,000Youth Development$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $150,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetWOMEN IMPACTING NEIGHBORHOODS: $50,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSHELBY LITERACY CENTER: $14,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetMONROE HARDING INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOALINGA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetRacine Literacy Council Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetPRISON BOOK PROGRAM: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CARE GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY WORKS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHOTEL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE TRAINING KITCHEN: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCROSS OVER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetST GABRIEL MERCY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetQUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTEPS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCasa De Amistad Inc: $9,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetCRAVEN LITERACY COUNCIL: $9,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetHAVENLY: $8,640 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF SARASOTA INC: $8,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetA NEW LEAF: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEthos Literacy: $7,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTHE BOOK TRUCK INC: $7,500 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT: $7,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $6,600 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL: $6,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPEMI-BAKER LITERACY: $6,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNORTHWEST OHIO LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $6,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetINCLINE EDUCATION FUND: $5,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLEE COUNTY LITERACY COALITION: $5,500 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetLiteracy Council of Medina County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF MORRIS COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE REFUGE CLEVELAND: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALWORTH COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF NORRISTOWN: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS AT CENTENARY: $5,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetVOLUNTEER ENGLISH PROGRAM IN CHESTER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ENGLISH CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetADULT LEARNING CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEAST TEXAS LITERACY COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMULTINATIONAL MEMPHIS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSWEETWATER MISSION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetREAD TO SUCCEED: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMERCY EDUCATION PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Dollar General Litera…Nora Roberts Foundati…Proliteracy WorldwideGannett Foundation IncInternational Paper C…Grapevine giving foun…Mightycause Charitabl…Td Charitable Foundat…Truist Foundation IncDuke Energy FoundationVerizon FoundationThe Bank of America C…
Dollar General Literacy FoundationTN66.6× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wish You Well Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wish You Well Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 40%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 163 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home