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About Wheeler Family Charitable Foundation
The Wheeler Family Charitable Foundation is a small, highly focused local funder that directs nearly all of its giving to hunger relief and nutrition services in the Somerset, PA area. Its grants are large relative to its portfolio and overwhelmingly provided as unrestricted contributions, indicating a preference for general operating support to trusted community service providers, especially seniors' meal delivery and food pantry operations.
Focus Areas
Home-delivered meals for seniors (Meals on Wheels programs)Local food pantry operations and emergency food distribution in Somerset, PAUnrestricted/general operating support for community nutrition providers
Who They Fund
residents of Somerset County, PAchildren and pediatric patients (cancer patients)youth and 4-H participantsfamilies requiring childcarepeople experiencing housing instability / transitioning from homelessnesslocal arts practitioners and learners
About Wheeler Family Charitable Foundation
The Wheeler Family Charitable Foundation’s giving is shaped by repeated unrestricted support for Somerset-area basic needs providers, especially Somerset Food Pantry and Meals on Wheels. Across multiple years, those two organizations each received $50,000 grants, and both also appear in the foundation’s lower-grant history, showing a sustained relationship rather than one-off awards. That pattern sits alongside other operating support for community service groups and health-related nonprofits in Somerset and nearby Pittsburgh. The foundation’s recent grants show a compact local portfolio with awards that often land at round figures and are frequently designated as unrestricted contributions. Community nutrition is the clearest throughline: food distribution, meal delivery for seniors, and related local support organizations are central recipients. Beyond that core, the foundation has also backed children’s hospitals, housing-related services, youth programs, and faith-linked community groups, but those areas appear as smaller parts of a broader community-services profile. A notable feature of the portfolio is the mix of core operating aid and targeted project funding. While much of the giving is unrestricted, some grants are tied to specific purposes such as pediatric blood cancer care, transitional housing, and facility projects. That combination suggests a funder that supports both general service capacity and selected initiatives within its local network.
What Wheeler Family Charitable Foundation Funds
Hunger relief is the foundation’s clearest focus. Somerset Food Pantry received $50,000 in both 2024 and 2025, and an earlier $45,000 unrestricted contribution in 2023, while Meals on Wheels in Somerset also received $50,000 grants in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Those awards point to sustained support for food access and senior meal delivery. Healthcare appears in both general and project-specific forms. Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh received $20,000 unrestricted grants in 2023 and 2024, then two $10,000 restricted grants in 2025, one for the Whole Child Wellness Center and one for neurooncology. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society also received a $10,000 restricted grant in 2025 for the Dare to Dream Project for pediatric blood cancer research and care. Community infrastructure shows up as well. In 2025, the foundation gave $10,000 to the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies for the Transitional Housing Project, and Camp Parc received a $10,000 restricted grant for the Risch Pavillion project after prior unrestricted support.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$90K
Total Assets
$3.7M
Total Revenue
$164K
Total Expenses
$139K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $5K and $15K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$5K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$15K
Geographic Reach
Local2 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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