· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $80,000 |
| ALBION COLLEGE | $45,000 |
| LEELANAUE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| GLEN LAKE ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| HANOVER HORTON HIGH SCHOOL | $3,950 |
| DENVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PLAY RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY | $1,500 |
| LETOURNEAU UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| ANDERSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER | $1,000 |
| NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN | $750 |
| FRIENDS OF WINTON HILLS ACADEMY | $750 |
| CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES | $500 |
| ALL GODS CHILDREN | $500 |
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $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 (FY21–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% 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 +53% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 11 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- UOUniversity of Michigan6× · 2018–2025 · $205k · revenue +195%
- GCGEORGETOWN COLLEGE3× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +29%
- OCORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- CSCINCINNATI STATE UNIVERSTIYone grant, 2018 · $3k
- WHWOMEN HELPING WOMENgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $600 · revenue +115%
- TSTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $600 · revenue +41%
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
Lake erie college provides an excellent, inclusive, and highly personalized education grounded in the liberal arts tradition. guided by hope and care, our students are empowered to lead lives of personal significance and professional…
Hollins university is an independent liberal arts university dedicated to academic excellence and humane values. hollins university offers undergraduate liberal arts education for women, selected graduate programs for men and women, and…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seven Hills School and the most unlike its peers is Kansas City Hospice 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 50 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 39 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 ALBION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GLEN LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PLAY RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
- Who funds HANOVER-HORTON AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER ↗
- Who funds LeTourneau University ↗
- Who funds WOMEN HELPING WOMEN ↗
- Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Naples Therapeutic Riding Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds BEACON OF HOPE BUSINESS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Mercantile Library ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
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: 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
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 Wlsr 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.
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% 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.