· Private foundation
Wisner Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEMENTIA FRIENDLY SALINE | $5,000 |
| MONA SHORES HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SCHOOL CRAFT COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BABY READ | $5,000 |
| MILWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| BRIEF | $5,000 |
| MONA SHORES PARENT ASSOC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,161 |
| BUILDING BEDS 4 KIDS | $4,110 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,037 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| BRISTOW RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $1,900 |
| LAKE HARBOR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $530 |
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 (FY18–20, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 9 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, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LWLEST WE FORGET OUR VETS INC4× · 2018–2022 · $14k · revenue +19% · 77% of their budget
- TBThe Barker Adoption Foundation2× · 2018–2020 · $10k · revenue +26%
- HHEARD2× · 2019–2023 · $10k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- AHAL HOLMES ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $9k
- WSWOODWARD SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $6k
- CPCEDAR POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Through the efforts of committed volunteers, Kenmore Elementary PTA is dedicated to providing support services, learning opportunities, and community events to create a positive educational environment and school community for students,…
The ketterlinus elementary school pto exists to promote the educational welfare and development of the students at ketterlinus elementary school, to support united efforts among educators and parents for the benefit of the students, and to…
Parent Teacher Association
The sole purpose of lakewood elementary ptt is to foster pride, enthusiasm and positive action to support learning. through fundraising and family activities, lakewood elementary ptt will promote school/community relationships that enhance…
Lincoln elementary scholl pta mission is to support and speak on behalf of children and youth in the schools, in the community, and before governmental bodies and other organizations that make decisions affecting children; to assist…
The purpose of the pender pto is to support the education of children in the pender public schools by fostering relationships among the school, parents and teachers.
PTO to support and fund activities at Berkley Elementary school.
To foster a sense of support, pride, and enthusiasm; to encourage parent and community involvement in the north lee area; and to strengthen the connection between home and school so that parents and teachers can work together effectively…
The purpose of laketown elementary school pto is to support the education of children at laketown elementary school by fostering the relationship between school, home, and community for the academic success of all the students of the…
The purpose of the Washington Elementary PTA is to promote the welfare of children in the home, school, and community and, raise standards of home life, connect home and school, and connect educators and the general public. The Washington…
The primary exempt purpose of a Parent Teacher Association (PTA) is to promote the welfare, health, safety, and educational success of children and youth through strong parent, family, school, and community involvement
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 55 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 KALAMAZOO CHILDREN'S CHORUS ↗
- Who funds LEST WE FORGET OUR VETS INC ↗
- Who funds The Barker Adoption Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEARD ↗
- Who funds DEMENTIA FRIENDLY SALINE ↗
- Who funds Programs to Educate All Cyclists ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PINEY BRANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO ↗
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: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wisner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wisner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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