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Form 990-PFTax year 2024EIN 88-0233486

William & Florence Wheeler Foundation

A private foundation in Bakersfield, CA. Its return for tax year 2024 lists 22 grants and $327,692 paid in grants.

Tax year 2024 (period ending May 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

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Phone
On file
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On file
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Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.
  • Tax year 2024

    $327,692

    Grants listed
    22
    Assets, end of year
    $5,228,060
  • Tax year 2023

    $324,641

    Grants listed
    26
    Assets, end of year
    $4,932,358
  • Tax year 2022

    $270,455

    Grants listed
    18
    Assets, end of year
    $4,778,194
  • Tax year 2021

    $246,633

    Grants listed
    18
    Assets, end of year
    $5,043,288
  • Tax year 2020

    $285,500

    Grants listed
    22
    Assets, end of year
    $4,512,445
  • Tax year 2019

    $346,200

    Grants listed
    28
    Assets, end of year
    $4,676,056
  • Tax year 2018

    $335,625

    Grants listed
    23
    Assets, end of year
    $4,829,345
  • Tax year 2017

    $334,755

    Grants listed
    19
    Assets, end of year
    $5,024,721

Grants paid in 2024

22 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Garces Memorial High SchoolBakersfield, CA

    To help nurture students' spirituality, develop their intellect and their character.

    $64,750
  2. CMSF Heritage FoundationPaso Robles, CA

    To preserve and enrich the heritage of the 16th district agricultural association and showcase agricultural industries to the community; to offer support to the 4-h and FFA projects and create agricultural education opportunities; maintain a standard of excellence in the facilities and create capital improvement opportunities and to serve as an arm of the california mid-state fair that can accept charitable donations.

    $55,072
  3. Hoffmann HospiceBakersfield, CA

    To celebrate the sanctity of life, provide compassionate end-of-life care, and comfort the grieving.

    $31,120
  4. Bakersfield College FoundationBakersfield, CA

    To support the collegiate rodeo team.

    $30,000
  5. Jack's Helping HandSN Luis Obisp, CA

    To provide community programs that meet the unique challenges of children with cancer or special needs.

    $25,000
  6. Junior League of BakersfieldBakersfield, CA

    To advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.

    $20,000
  7. Mendiburu Magic FoundationBakersfield, CA

    To provide support for the unmet needs of children and their families that may be facing cancer and/or other catastrophic or life threatening illness.

    $15,000
  8. California Reining Horse AssociationTemecula, CA

    To advance the sport of reining with dedication and passion.

    $11,500
  9. Alano Pintado Equine Health FoundationOlivos, CA

    To further equine veterinary medicine with new advancements and impactful therapies to improve clinical outcomes.

    $10,000
  10. Boys & Girls Club of Kern CountyBakersfield, CA

    To help young people improve scholartically, develop socially, and prepare professionally.

    $10,000
  11. Redwings Horse SanctuaryPaso Robles, CA

    To eliminate the causes of equine suffering through educational and community outreach programs, rescue abused, abandoned, and neglected equines and provide permanent sanctuary or selected adoptive homes for those equines.

    $10,000
  12. Surfing for HopeSan Luis Obispo, CA

    To help people ease the difficulty of cancer through the healing powers of surfing and the ocean life.

    $10,000
  13. Bakersfield Museum of ArtBakersfield, CA

    To support museums that engages, inspires, and builds community through visual art.

    $5,000
  14. Boy Scouts of AmericaBakersfield, CA

    To prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and scout law.

    $5,000
  15. Tunnel to Towers FoundationStaten Island, NY

    To assist america's heroes by providing mortgage-free homes to gold star and fallen first responder families with young children and by building specially-adapted smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans and first responders. To assist america's heroes by providing mortgage-free homes to gold star and fallen first responder families with young children and by building specially-adapted smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans and first responders.to assist america's heroes by providing mortgage-free homes to gold star and fallen first responder families with young children and by building specially-adapted smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans and first responders.

    $5,000
  16. Woods Humane SocietySN Luis Obisp, CA

    To serve, protect and shelter homeless companion animals and to place animals into humane environments. While promoting responsible pet ownership, provide humane education, and reduce animal overpopulation; and to celebrate the human-animal bond.

    $5,000
  17. Wounded Warriors Family SupportOmaha, NE

    To provide support to the families of those who have been wounded, injured or killed during combat operations. The families of our casualties suffer in many ways: some physically, some psychologically.

    $5,000
  18. Jim Burke Education FoundationBakersfield, CA

    To help the youth of kern county excel through grants, scholarships and civic projects.

    $2,500
  19. Kathy's Legacy FoundationCarlsbad, CA

    To assist children whose lives are traumatically altered by the murder of a parent due to domestic violence.

    $2,500
  20. Zoo to YouPaso Robles, CA

    To give a worldwide voice to wildlife by providing a permanent, loving home for displaced, abused, abandoned or permanently injured wild and exotic animals.

    $2,500
  21. St Francis School FoundationBakersfield, CA

    To provide excellence in catholic education by preparing critical-thinking, disciplined, and active christian leaders.

    $1,750
  22. Bass Lake Chamber of CommerceBass Lake, CA

    To ensure the continued firework display tradition that brings smiles and cheers from young to old alike.

    $1,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Education3 grants $37,50031% of the total
  2. Human services2 grants $30,00024% of the total
  3. Community development1 grant $20,00016% of the total
  4. Health1 grant $15,00012% of the total
  5. Youth development1 grant $10,0008% of the total
  6. Animals1 grant $5,0004% of the total
  7. 1 other causes1 grant $5,0004% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. California21 grants $322,692
  2. New York1 grant $5,000

Officers, directors and trustees

1 person as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Nancy L WheelerTRUSTEE Hours 8Pay $49,000

The return

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