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WSFM Foundation Inc at a glance

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WSFM Foundation Inc

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 FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$716kReligion$16kArts & Culture$4kYouth Development$2kMembership Benefit$1kAnimals$1kEducation$773Philanthropy$250Other$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$150,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$48k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation$150,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FIMRC: $1k → 22%Clint Ruiz Memorial Fund Donation: $250 → 11%Longhorn Foundation: $70k → 10%The Dj Carlson Memorial Fund: $502 → 12%Serenity Star: $500 → 12%DJ Carlson Memorial Fund: $1k → 25%Addicus Legacy Dog Rescue Inc: $1k → 11%St Jude Children's Research Hospital: $600 → 17%The Navigators: $1k → 9%Phi Delta Theta Fraternity: $1k → 12%Alzheimers Association: $500 → 14%Viper Sped Club: $2k → 10%DJ Carlson Memorial Fund: $750 → 25%St Jude Children's Research Hospital: $100 → 17%Alzheimers Association: $500 → 14%Longhorn Foundation: $53k → 10%DJ Carlson Memorial Fund: $500 → 25%Vandergrift High School Athletic Booster Club: $50 → 10%Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation: $160k → 10%Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation: $150k → 10%Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation: $94k → 10%Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation: $85k → 10%Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation: $75k → 10%Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation: $50k → 10%Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation: $50k → 10%Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation: $50k → 10%Hendrickson High School: $523 → 10%Hendrickson High School: $250 → 10%HHS Golf Team: $100 → 10%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

IL
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
AR
TN
TX
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$858k · 7 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

$858k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+55%

Still filing today

57%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    8× · 2017–2024 · $714k · revenue +49%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $1k · revenue +32%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $700 · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • VS
    Viper Sped Club
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • PD
    PHI DELTA THETA FRATERNITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +55%
  • TN
    THE NAVIGATORS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1k
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.

1
The Drexel Fund
Education
2
Diabetes Technology Society

To facilitate research into the treatment, monitoring, diagnosis and prevention of diabetes.

Health
3
American Diabetes Association

The mission of the American Diabetes Association is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.

Health
4
Md Anderson Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
6
Drive to Remember

The mission of drive to remember is to find a cure for alzheimer's disease

Philanthropy
7
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
8
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
9
Sams Search 4 a Cure

How Sam's Search started and whyImagine your 4-year-old boy suddenly losing weight, looking pale, becoming continually thirsty with an increased need to urinate. These are some of the signs and symptoms of the onset of Juvenile diabetes.…

Health
10
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
11
Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance
Human Services
12
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dj Carlson Memorial Fund. 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

8 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. 8 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $713,600 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D+3 more: $2,200 · HealthLonghorn Foundation: $122,800 · OtherLonghorn FoundationSTUDENT MOBILIZATION INC: $16,150 · OtherSTUDENT MOBILIZATIO…+9 more: $6,873 · OtherDJ CARLSON MEMORIAL FUND: $2,952 · PhilanthropyAddicus Legacy Dog Rescue: $1,000 · Animals
Health$715,800Other$145,823Philanthropy$2,952Animals$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $713,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDJ CARLSON MEMORIAL FUND: $2,952 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPHI DELTA THETA FRATERNITY: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSERENITYSTAR: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVANDEGRIFT HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds DJ CARLSON MEMORIAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds PHI DELTA THETA FRATERNITY ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Addicus Legacy Dog Rescue ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SERENITYSTAR ↗
  • Who funds VANDEGRIFT HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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