· Private foundation
Wm O and Margaret H Dewitt 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
85% of Wm O and Margaret H Dewitt Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Wm O and Margaret H Dewitt Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $124k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k13 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YALE | $70,000 |
| YALE PARENTS ANNUAL FUND | $25,000 |
| MCLAUREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FORGOTTEN | $3,000 |
| ST PETERS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,500 |
| CONNECTICUT COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| CHURCHILL SCHOOL AND CENTER | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| STRATFORD FESTIVAL | $1,500 |
| GROSSE POINT FARMS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| MARY INSTITUTE AND ST LOUIS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL (MICDS) | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC INDIAN RIVER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE TAFT SCHOOL | $250 |
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 (FY17–20, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2022, 19 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TTTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +82%
- EHENTITLEMENTS HOW INC2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +31%
- FOFRIENDS OF FORGOTTEN CHILDREN4× · 2017–2020 · $16k · revenue +454%
Funded once
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +50%- BHBEAUMONT HEALTH (HOSPTIAL)one grant, 2021 · $5k
- BHBEAUMONT HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $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.
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Education and Research
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How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 61 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ENTITLEMENTS HOW INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FORGOTTEN CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds EDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School ↗
- Who funds CHURCHILL SCHOOL AND CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASPEN FILM ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wm O and Margaret H Dewitt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wm O and Margaret H Dewitt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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