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C James and Mary Lou Wilson Charitable Trust Incorporated at a glance

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C James and Mary Lou Wilson Charitable Trust Incorporated

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.

$8k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$17kReligion$14kEducation$10kArts & Culture$5kHealth$4kFood & Nutrition$3kCivil Rights$1kHuman Services$500
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$208k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Noblesivlle Boys & Girls Club$2,500
Westfield Youth Assistance$2,500
Franklin College of Indiana$2,000
Indianapolis Scottish Right Foundation$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Edna Martin Christian Center: $500 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23k · 6 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$23k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+146%

Still filing today

33%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NB
    NOBLESVILLE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AUXILIARY INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $10k · revenue +47%
  • FC
    Franklin College of Indiana
    2× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +45%
  • 1C
    1st Christian Church of Noblesville
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k

Funded once

  • IS
    INDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +146%
  • FC
    First Christian Church of Noblesvil
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • HS
    HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN SCHOOLSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +27%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
2
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
3
Zionsville Education Foundation Inc

The Zionsville Education Foundation (ZEF)is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the educational experiences of Zionsville students by providing grants for innovative and creative programs. The mission of ZEF is to serve its…

Education
4
Breck School

We create confident learners who lead lives of intellectual curiosity, self-knowledge, and social responsibility.

Education
5
Westmont College

Higher Education: Westmont College is an undergraduate, residential, Christian, liberal arts community serving God's kingdom by cultivating thoughtful scholars, grateful servants and faithful leaders for global engagement with the academy,…

Education
6
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
7
Earlham Foundation

Earlham Foundation receives and holds permanently restricted gifts made to Earlham College, Inc. (including the Earlham School of Religion). The Foundation invests these funds and releases quarterly distributions of earnings to Earlham…

Education
8
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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9
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
10
Toccoa Falls College Inc

The mission of Toccoa Falls College is to glorify God through seeking and developing Christian servant leaders who will impact their world with the love and message of Jesus Christ.

Education
11
Lake Forest College

Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…

Education
12
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana University Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Edna Martin Christian Center Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

First Christian Church of Noblesvil: $4,500 · OtherFirst Christian Church of Noblesvil1st Christian Church of Noblesville: $3,500 · Other1st Christian Church of NoblesvilleScottish Rite Indianapolis Valley L: $2,500 · OtherScottish Rite Indianapolis Valley LNoblesivlle Boys & Girls Club: $2,500 · OtherNoblesivlle Boys & Girls ClubHarvest Time Food Bank: $2,500 · OtherHarvest Time Food BankPura Syndrome Foundation: $2,000 · OtherPura Syndrome FoundationEMERSON AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH: $2,000 · OtherEMERSON AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCHNoblesville Youth Assistance Fund: $2,000 · OtherNoblesville Youth Assistance FundIndianapolis Dyslexia Center: $1,700 · OtherIndianapolis Dyslexia CenterPleasant Run Christian Church: $1,500 · OtherPleasant Run Christian ChurchIndianapolis Scottish Right Foundation: $1,000 · OtherFranklin College of Indiana: $4,500 · EducationFranklin College of …HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN SCHOOLS: $2,500 · EducationHAMILTON SOUTHEASTER…Purdue Research Foundation: $2,500 · EducationPurdue Research Foun…+1 more: $200 · EducationNOBLESVILLE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AUXILIARY INC: $9,500 · PhilanthropyNOBLESVILLE BOYS & G…INDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,400 · Arts & CultureINDIANAPOLI…WESTFIELD YOUTH ASSISTANCE INC: $2,500 · Crime & LegalEDNA MARTIN CHRISTIAN CENTER INC: $500 · Human Services
Other$25,700Education$9,700Philanthropy$9,500Arts & Culture$5,400Crime & Legal$2,500Human Services$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNOBLESVILLE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AUXILIARY INC: $9,500 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,400 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFranklin College of Indiana: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTFIELD YOUTH ASSISTANCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN SCHOOLS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPurdue Research Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDNA MARTIN CHRISTIAN CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 NOBLESVILLE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AUXILIARY INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Franklin College of Indiana ↗
  • Who funds WESTFIELD YOUTH ASSISTANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds Purdue Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds EDNA MARTIN CHRISTIAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗

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.

Lilly Endowment IncAmazonsmile Foundation
Lilly Endowment IncIN13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization C James and Mary Lou Wilson Charitable Trust Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C James and Mary Lou Wilson Charitable Trust Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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