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Wye Foundation Inc at a glance

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Wye 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.

$419k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$380k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Science & Tech$2.3MArts & Culture$140kFood & Nutrition$127kEnvironment$125kHuman Services$29kPublic Safety & Disaster$27kCommunity Improvement$26kYouth Development$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $250k+1 grant · $380k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FISHIALAI PROJECT$379,764
OUR FATHERS HOUSE SOUP KITCHEN INC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
KATIE BENTLEY MEMORIAL CHARITY$5,000
reeforg$5,000
CITY OF LIGHTHOUSE POINT$5,000
G4 GOOD FOUNDATION INC$2,500
the billfish foundation$1,030
National exchange club$500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Coastal Conservation Association - Florida: $2k → 16%Molly's House Inc: $2k → 10%Big Heart Brigade of TC Inc: $5k → 11%reeforg: $5k → 13%FISHIALAI PROJECT: $477k → 13%COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 9%KATIE BENTLEY MEMORIAL CHARITY: $5k → 7%9463 Foundation for Floridas Fallen Officers: $5k → 11%FISHIALAI PROJECT: $380k → 13%KATIE BENTLEY MEMORIAL CHARITY: $5k → 7%FISHIALAI PROJECT: $355k → 13%KATIE BENTLEY MEMORIAL CHARITY: $5k → 7%Wheels from the Heart Inc: $5k → 11%FISHIALAI PROJECT: $334k → 13%KATIE BENTLEY MEMORIAL CHARITY: $3k → 7%FISHIALAI PROJECT: $331k → 13%KATIE BENTLEY MEMORIAL CHARITY: $2k → 7%FISHIALAI PROJECT: $207k → 13%FISHIALAI PROJECT: $187k → 13%City of Lighthouse Point: $5k → 13%CITY OF LIGHTHOUSE POINT: $5k → 13%Silvie Bells Inc: $5k → 13%CITY OF LIGHTHOUSE POINT: $5k → 13%CITY OF LIGHTHOUSE POINT: $5k → 13%CITY OF LIGHTHOUSE POINT: $5k → 13%CITY OF LIGHTHOUSE POINT: $5k → 13%G4 GOOD FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 13%G4 GOOD FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 13%City of Lighthouse Point: $2k → 13%OUR FATHERS HOUSE SOUP KITCHEN INC: $25k → 13%OUR FATHERS HOUSE SOUP KITCHEN INC: $20k → 13%OUR FATHERS HOUSE SOUP KITCHEN INC: $10k → 13%Hillsboro Lighthouse Preservation Society: $45k → 13%OUR FATHERS HOUSE SOUP KITCHEN INC: $10k → 13%Hillsboro Lighthouse Preservation Society: $10k → 13%Our Father's House Soup Kitchen: $5k → 13%OUR FATHERS HOUSE SOUP KITCHEN INC: $30k → 13%OUR FATHERS HOUSE SOUP KITCHEN INC: $20k → 13%Celebration of the Sea Foundation: $20k → 13%OUR FATHERS HOUSE SOUP KITCHEN INC: $2k → 13%Exchange Club: $2k → 13%THE EXCHANGE CLUB OF POMPANO BEACH CHARITABLE: $2k → 13%CITY OF DEERFIELD: $5k → 13%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BROWARD INC: $10k → 13%GUY HARVEY OCEAN FOUNDATION: $50k → 13%INTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION: $10k → 13%GHOF: $25k → 13%International Game Fish Association: $5k → 13%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 11 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
16

Total granted

$2.6M
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
0%

Still filing today

73%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic BenefitPublic Safety & DisasterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • HL
    HILLSBORO LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $130k · revenue +17% · 30% of their budget
  • OF
    OUR FATHERS HOUSE SOUP KITCHEN INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $122k · revenue +82%
  • IG
    INTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2019–2022 · $15k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • GH
    GUY HARVEY OCEAN FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -21%
  • G
    GHOF
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • TC
    THE CELEBRATION OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -73% · 54% of their budget
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
Global Foundation for Oceanographic & Atmospheric Research Inc
Philanthropy
2
Gulf Fishery Research Foundation
Environment
3
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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4
Captain Paul Watson Foundation

Defending sea life and preventing illegal operations across the ocean.

Science & Tech
5
Clean Reefs
Environment
6
Herman Lucerne Memorial Foundation Inc

Preserve, protect, support and enhance the resources that enable the rich angler experiences of the everglades and florida bay for today and for the generations to come

Recreation & Sports
7
Oceanit Research Foundation
Science & Tech
8
Blue Ocean Foundation
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9
Marine Megafauna Foundation

Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions

International
10
Green Ocean Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Offield Ocean Fund
Environment
12
Coral Conservancy
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coast Guard Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is G4 Good Foundation Inc. 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 30 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FISHIALAI PROJECT: $2,270,791 · OtherFISHIALAI PROJECTOUR FATHERS HOUSE SOUP KITCHEN INC: $122,000 · Other+18 more: $124,859 · OtherHILLSBORO LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $130,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC: $14,789 · Arts & CultureGUY HARVEY OCEAN FUND INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE CELEBRATION OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC: $20,476 · EnvironmentCOASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $3,200 · EnvironmentKATIE BENTLEY MEMORIAL CHARITY: $20,000 · Community ImprovementCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Public BenefitBig Heart Brigade Inc: $5,000 · PhilanthropyG4 GOOD FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy9463 A FOUNDATION FOR FLORIDAS FALLEN OFFICERS: $6,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$2,517,650Arts & Culture$144,789Environment$73,676Community Improvement$20,000Public Benefit$20,000Philanthropy$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHILLSBORO LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $130,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetOUR FATHERS HOUSE SOUP KITCHEN INC: $122,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetGUY HARVEY OCEAN FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CELEBRATION OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC: $20,476 over 1y, 54% of budgetKATIE BENTLEY MEMORIAL CHARITY: $20,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC: $14,789 over 2y, 0.4% of budget9463 A FOUNDATION FOR FLORIDAS FALLEN OFFICERS: $6,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetBig Heart Brigade Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetG4 GOOD FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC: $2,059 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOLLY'S HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 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.

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.

Rock the Ocean Founda…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Rock the Ocean FoundationTN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rock the Ocean Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • International Game Fish Association Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Guy Harvey Ocean Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 30 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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