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Wheeler Clinic Inc

Plainville, CT · EIN 06-0867065. Reported 155 grants totalling $7,062,064 to 81 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

1. What kind of organization it is. For Wheeler Clinic Inc, the IRS classifies it under mental health rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE F200) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
2. How spread out its giving is. 81 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
3. How much its list changes. 46% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $18,419. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $43,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $365,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

44 of 81 (54%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

• Community Residences Inc $365,000 · 2022
  THE PURPOSE OF THE GRANT IS TO ORGANIZE AND DELIVER SERVICES FOR THE FUNCTIONAL FAMILY THERAPY-FOSTER CARE. THE SERVICE WILL ENGAGE FAMILIES WHO HAVE BEEN REFERRED FROM DCF AREA OFFICES TO ENTER INTO THE FFT PROGRAM.
• Young Womens Christian Association of New Britain (ywca) $238,438 · 2023
  PURPOSE OF GRANT OR ASSISTANCE: TO PROVIDE FACILITY, ADMINISTRATIVE AND DIRECT SERVICES RELATED TO THE TITCC/LEAPP PROGRAM.
• Hispanic Health Council Inc $225,662 · 2023
  THE PURPOSE OF THE GRANT IS TO ORGANIZE AND DELIVER SERVICES FOR THE REUNIFICATION AND THERAPEUTIC FAMILY TIME PROGRAM. THE SERVICE WILL ENGAGE FAMILIES WHO HAVE BEEN REFERRED FROM DCF AREA OFFICES WITH THE GOAL OF PROVIDING REUNIFICATION READINESS ASSESSMENTS, REUNIFICATION SERVICES AND/OR THERAPEUTIC FAMILY TIME.
• Child Guidance Clinic for Central Ct Inc $198,946 · 2021
  PURPOSE OF GRANT OR ASSISTANCE ASSISTANCE USED TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY MOBILE PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES IN GREATER HARTFORD. THE SUBCONTRACTOR WILL PROVIDE CRISIS ASSESSMENT, LINKAGE, SUPPORT SERVICES AND STABILIZATION SERVICES TO CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND FAMILIES REFERRED.
• Human Resources Agency of New Britain Inc $186,685 · 2022
  THE PURPOSE OF THE GRANT IS TO ORGANIZE AND DELIVER SERVICES FOR THE COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES PROGRAM IN DCF REGION 6. THE SERVICE WILL ENGAGE FAMILIES WHO HAVE RECEIVED A FAMILY ASSESSMENT RESPONSE FROM DCF AND CONNECT THEM TO CONCRETE, TRADITIONAL AND NON-TRADITIONAL RESOURCES AND SERVICES IN THE COMMUNITY.
• African Caribbean American Parents of Children With Disabilities Inc $138,303 · 2022
  THE PURPOSE OF THE GRANT IS TO PROVIDE AN EVIDENCE-BASED EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM THAT PROVIDES PARENT SUPPORT AND EDUCATION TO FAMILIES WITH YOUNG CHILDREN AGES BIRTH TO FIVE. OEC HOME VISITING PROGRAM IS A SECONDARY PREVENTION SERVICE THAT IS MADE AVAILABLE TO ANY FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN IN THE AGE RANGE WHO ARE IDENTIFIED OR SELF-IDENTIFIED AS NEEDING SUPPORT.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 58 of 81 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Giving by year

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

98% of its giving went to organizations in Connecticut. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

How to approach this grantmaker

1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $18,419 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Connecticut.
4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Wheeler Clinic Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 91 Northwest Drive, Plainville, CT, 06062.

EIN 06-0867065 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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