How much does Wlsr Foundation give?

Wlsr Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $150,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Wlsr Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (62%), Health (30%), Human Services (2%).

Who are Wlsr Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Michigan ($205k), Western Michigan University ($101k), Georgetown College ($15k).

Does Wlsr Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Wlsr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wlsr Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Fidelity Foundation, Louise Taft Semple Foundation.

Where is Wlsr Foundation based?

Wlsr Foundation is based in FL.

Foundation Dossiers

Florida · Private foundation

Wlsr 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.

$150k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 18
Grants FY2025: 9
Organizations funded FY2024: 33%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $1,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $80,000
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 11; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $3.2M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Wlsr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsInternationalPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	17	$105k	65%
FY2024	9	$98k	33%
FY2023	8	$107k	50%
FY2022	4	$7k	50%
FY2021	11	$43k	36%
FY2020	8	$21k	13%
FY2019	9	$27k	78%
FY2018	6	$22k	83%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$417kHealth$206kHuman Services$16kReligion$15kEnvironment$9kRecreation & Sports$8kArts & Culture$3kEmployment$500Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Michigan	$204,547	6	15%
Western Michigan University	$100,959	5	n/a
Georgetown College	$14,500	3	0%
Mission Aviation Fellowship	$14,500	3	n/a
Mount Notre Dame High School	$6,500	4	n/a
Glen Lake Association Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Leelanau Conservancy	$5,000	1	0%
Orchards Children's Services Inc	$3,000	2	0%
Play Right Sports Academy Inc	$2,500	3	0%
Sigma Chi Foundation	$2,500	2	0%

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All grantees of Wlsr Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Michigan	$204,547	6	15%
Western Michigan University	$100,959	5	n/a
Georgetown College	$14,500	3	0%
Mission Aviation Fellowship	$14,500	3	n/a
Mount Notre Dame High School	$6,500	4	n/a
Glen Lake Association Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Leelanau Conservancy	$5,000	1	0%
Orchards Children's Services Inc	$3,000	2	0%
Play Right Sports Academy Inc	$2,500	3	0%
Sigma Chi Foundation	$2,500	2	0%
All God's Children International	$2,500	2	0%
Jackson Public School District (V)	$2,500	2	n/a
Hanover-Horton Area Historical Society	$2,000	2	n/a
Naples Botanical Garden Inc	$1,150	2	0%
LeTourneau University	$1,000	1	0%
Springer School and Center	$1,000	1	0%
Anderson Education Foundation Inc	$1,000	1	2%
Friends of Winton Hills Academy	$750	1	n/a
Women Helping Women	$600	1	0%
The Seven Hills School	$600	1	0%
Naples Therapeutic Riding Center Inc	$525	2	0%
Kansas City Hospice Inc	$500	1	n/a
All Gods Children	$500	1	n/a
Beacon of Hope Business Alliance	$500	1	0%
Miami University	$500	1	n/a
Cincinnati Museum Association	$400	1	0%
The Mercantile Library	$250	1	0%
City Gospel Mission and Affiliates	$250	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($54k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wlsr Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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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.

The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH20.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Baird Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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.

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About Wlsr Foundation

How much does Wlsr Foundation give?: Wlsr Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $150,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Wlsr Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (62%), Health (30%), Human Services (2%).
Who are Wlsr Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Michigan ($205k), Western Michigan University ($101k), Georgetown College ($15k).
Does Wlsr Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wlsr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wlsr Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Fidelity Foundation, Louise Taft Semple Foundation.
Where is Wlsr Foundation based?: Wlsr Foundation is based in FL.