· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Westfield Youth Assistance | $2,500 |
| Noblesivlle Boys & Girls Club | $2,500 |
| Franklin College of Indiana | $2,000 |
| Indianapolis Scottish Right Foundation | $1,000 |
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 (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 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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NBNOBLESVILLE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AUXILIARY INC4× · 2019–2023 · $10k · revenue +47%
- FCFranklin College of Indiana2× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +45%
- 1C1st Christian Church of Noblesville2× · 2017–2018 · $4k
Funded once
- ISINDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +146%
- FCFirst Christian Church of Noblesvilone grant, 2020 · $5k
- HSHAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN SCHOOLSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +27%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
See Disclosure Above.
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…
We create confident learners who lead lives of intellectual curiosity, self-knowledge, and social responsibility.
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,…
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…
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…
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
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…
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.
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…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana University Foundation and 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.
8 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. 8 of the 19 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 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 ↗
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: Lilly Endowment Inc · 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 C James and Mary Lou Wilson Charitable Trust Incorporated 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.