· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE V FOUNDATION | $8,765 |
| BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION | $6,787 |
| MOSES CONE FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| RALEIGH FIRE MUSEUM | $3,697 |
| PHOENIX PROJECT | $3,697 |
| NC FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION | $3,697 |
| K9S | $3,696 |
| ALTAPASS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| A PLACE AT THE TABLE | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,339 |
| NC SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $1,339 |
| KIDZNOTES | $1,339 |
| WAKE AND DISTRICT PIPE BAND | $1,339 |
| HART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| FFRF | $666 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +56% for those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BRBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +74%
- TVTHE V FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +61%
- AFALTAPASS FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +242%
Funded once
- TFTripawds Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +56%
- TETHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +21%
- RIREDS INCone grant, 2022 · $4k
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
To raise funds to advance, promote, and support the public service mission of pbs north carolina.
Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.
The foundation's mission is to fund research and develop researchers to optimize movement and health of society.
The physical therapy fund provides research and educational support for physical therapy.
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…
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)…
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
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…
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alex and Barbara Wilson Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alex and Barbara Wilson Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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