· Private foundation
Bob and Susan Wilson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
- $250k+1 grant · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $260,000 |
| GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION | $51,000 |
| VETERAN AIRLIFT COMMAND | $20,000 |
| MULLINS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| MEMPHIS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $20,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF MEMPHIS & SHELBY COUNTY | $10,000 |
| EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| WEST CANCER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $10,000 |
| MID-SOUTH RAPTOR CENTER | $10,000 |
| FAYETTE COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE | $10,000 |
| CALVARY RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| ADPA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LEES MCRAE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
The foundation enriches the lives of the students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the university of tennessee through alumni engagement, financial stewardship and private gift support.
The Tennessee Museum of Aviation is dedicated to the preservation of aviation history, the advancement of education, and the honoring of historical aviators.
The university of mississippi foundation is a nonprofit corporation chartered in 1973 by the state of mississippi to operate primarily for the benefit of the university of mississippi. the foundation is responsible for receiving,…
The appalachian state university foundation exists to support appalachian state university students, faculty, staff and community through the advancement of financial support, stewardship, growth of resources, and advocacy for the…
To operate as a nonprofit public benefit corporation to serve the needs and interests of furman university, an educational organization.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Utilizing a professional, biblically informed approach we serve as a guide to carefully designed estate and legacy plans that in their conveyed charitable intent expressly benefit letourneau university in its work of raising up men and…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
The university of virginia medical alumni association and medical school foundation is dedicated to enhancing the experience of students, housestaff, alumni and faculty of the uva school of medicine by creating opportunities for mentoring,…
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
To further the study, and/or teaching of accountancy and related fields through provision of educational opportunities to the cpa profession and providing scholarships for promising young accounting students.
See Disclosure Above.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lsu in Shreveport Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ave Maria Foundation of Memphis Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 23 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND ↗
- Who funds LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County ↗
- Who funds FAYETTE COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALVARY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE AVIATION HALL OF FAME IN ↗
- Who funds Grandfather Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PINECREST CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LSU IN SHREVEPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Robert a and Susan C Wilson Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Bob and Susan Wilson Foundation 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.
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.
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