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Alex and Barbara Wilson Charitable 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.

$48k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Philanthropy$73kArts & Culture$35kEnvironment$32kHealth$19kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kYouth Development$8kAnimals$5kEducation$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE V FOUNDATION$8,765
BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION$6,787
MOSES CONE FOUNDATION$6,000
PHOENIX PROJECT$3,697
NC FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION$3,697
RALEIGH FIRE MUSEUM$3,697
K9S$3,696
ALTAPASS FOUNDATION$3,000
A PLACE AT THE TABLE$2,000
WAKE AND DISTRICT PIPE BAND$1,339
KIDZNOTES$1,339
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$1,339
NC SYMPHONY SOCIETY$1,339
HART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC$1,000
FFRF$666
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PHOENIX PROJECT: $4k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$104k · 11 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$104k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+56%

Still filing today

55%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHealthArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +41%
  • TV
    THE V FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +61%
  • AF
    ALTAPASS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +242%

Funded once

  • TF
    Tripawds Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +56%
  • TE
    THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +21%
  • RI
    REDS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $4k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

2
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
3
Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation

To fund research to discover cures and more effective treatments for neuroendocrine cancers. the netrf is committed to improving the lives of those affected by neuroendocrine cancer by providing information & educational resources.

Health
4
The North Carolina Public Television Foundation Inc

To raise funds to advance, promote, and support the public service mission of pbs north carolina.

5
North Carolina State University Foundation Inc

Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.

Education
6
Foundation for Physical Therapy Research Inc

The foundation's mission is to fund research and develop researchers to optimize movement and health of society.

Health
7
Physical Therapy Fund

The physical therapy fund provides research and educational support for physical therapy.

Education
8
National Patient Advocate Foundation

The national patient advocate foundation, the advocacy affiliate of the patient advocate foundation, represents the patient voice, both the powerful stories of individuals and the collective needs of the community. our programs are…

Health
9
North Carolina Foundation for Nursing Inc

The purpose and goals of the foundation are to secure and administer funds directed toward (1) education that assures that registered nurses are prepared to meet the current and changing health care needs of north carolina citizens; (2)…

10
North Carolina Sports Legacy Foundation Fka Promote the Youth Foundation
Philanthropy
11
North Carolina Tennis Foundation Inc

The north carolina tennis foundation supports organizations and programs that enhance the lives of people through tennis and education and preserves the history of tennis in north carolina

12
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tripawds Foundation. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RALEIGH FIRE MUSEUM — $9,455 · OtherRALEIGH FIRE MUSEUMWAKE AND DISTRICT PIPE BAND — $8,377 · OtherWAKE AND DISTRICT PIPE BANDFFRF — $7,999 · OtherFFRFMOSES CONE FOUNDATION — $6,000 · OtherMOSES CONE FOUNDATIONNC SYMPHONY SOCIETY — $5,955 · OtherNC SYMPHONY SOCIETYTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $4,667 · OtherTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCREDS INC — $4,000 · OtherREDS INCK9S — $3,696 · OtherYOUNGSVILLE LODGE 377 — $3,000 · OtherARBOR DALE PRESBYTERIAN — $3,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $2,622 · OtherNC TROOPERS ASSOCIATION — $2,591 · OtherNC PEER SUPPORT GROUP — $2,591 · OtherPHOENIX PROJECT INC — $3,697 · Other+2 more — $3,200 · OtherNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $58,800 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTHART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · PhilanthropyHART SQUARE FOUNDATION INCBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION — $20,052 · EnvironmentBLUE RIDGE PARKWA…ALTAPASS FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 · EnvironmentALTAPASS FOUNDATI…THE V FOUNDATION — $16,523 · HealthTHE V FOU…NC FALLEN FIREFIGHTER'S FOUNDATION — $9,455 · Public Safety & DisasterKIDZNOTES INC — $5,175 · Arts & CultureTripawds Foundation — $5,000 · Animals
Other$70,850Philanthropy$64,800Environment$32,052Health$16,523Public Safety & Disaster$9,455Arts & Culture$5,175Animals$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $58,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION — $20,052 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION — $16,523 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALTAPASS FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetNC FALLEN FIREFIGHTER'S FOUNDATION — $9,455 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKIDZNOTES INC — $5,175 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTripawds Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $4,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX PROJECT INC — $3,697 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE V FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ALTAPASS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds NC FALLEN FIREFIGHTER'S FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds KIDZNOTES INC
  • Who funds Tripawds Foundation
  • Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds PHOENIX PROJECT INC
  • Who funds A PLACE AT THE TABLE

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Alex and Barbara Wilson Charitable Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Alex and Barbara Wilson Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Alex and Barbara Wilson Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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