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Charles P Wilson Foundation Inc at a glance

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Charles P Wilson Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$194k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$3.0MEducation$1.6MHuman Services$621kCommunity Improvement$222kYouth Development$169kInternational$111kHousing & Shelter$93kHealth$92kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $291k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $918k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUMBOLT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$193,500
UNION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION LLC$177,000
TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$134,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$133,940
THE CHURCH AT SUGAR CREEK$75,000
DREAM CENTER OF JACKSON$75,000
JACKSON FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$75,000
COORDINATED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC$55,000
SHEPHERD'S FIRE$48,000
KANES GIFT INC$45,000
LIFE ACTION MINISTRIES$30,000
WECARE CLINIC$20,000
GRACE TO YOU$20,000
DESIRING GOD$15,000
HOPE CENTER MINISTRIES$15,000
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 (FY17–24, $574k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%COVENANT RANCH INC: $140k → 16%BEATING HEARTS HELP CENTER: $10k → 16%McKenzie United Neighbors: $3k → 16%BEATING HEARTS HELP CENTER: $3k → 16%MCKENZIE UNITED NEIGHBORS: $3k → 16%BEATING HEARTS HELP CENTER: $3k → 16%DREAM CENTER OF JACKSON: $75k → 15%Henry County CASA: $25k → 16%Beating Hearts Help Center: $2k → 16%BEATING HEARTS HELP CENTER: $2k → 16%HENRY COUNTY CASA: $10k → 16%McKenzie United Neighbors: $2k → 16%Henry County CASA: $10k → 16%HENRY COUNTY CASA: $10k → 16%Beating Hearts Help Center: $2k → 16%HENRY COUNTY CASA: $10k → 16%Beating Hearts Help Center: $1k → 16%McKenzie United Neighbors: $1k → 16%CARE CENTER OF JACKSON: $10k → 15%CARE CENTER OF JACKSON: $3k → 15%DREAM CENTER OF JACKSON: $3k → 15%Care Center of Jackson: $2k → 15%HENRY COUNTY CASA: $5k → 16%DREAM CENTER OF JACKSON: $2k → 15%CARE CENTER OF JACKSON: $1k → 15%Care Center of Jackson: $1k → 15%Care Center of Jackson: $1k → 15%Care Center of Jackson: $1k → 15%CARE CENTER OF JACKSON: $1k → 15%Damascus Road Inc: $1k → 16%Covenant Ranch Inc: $103k → 16%Covenant Ranch Inc: $75k → 16%Covenant Ranch Inc: $54k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
PA
CA
KY
VA
MD
TN
OK
MS
AL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 64 repeat orgs$378k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

64 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
42

Total granted

$5.8M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+13%

Still filing today

47%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $199k 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
Human ServicesReligionHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • TC
    TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $418k · revenue +721%
  • HH
    HELPING HAND OF HUMBOLDT INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $137k · revenue +20% · 56% of their budget
  • KG
    KANES GIFT INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $130k · revenue +49% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • CB
    Calvary Bible Church
    one grant, 2017 · $112k
  • WC
    West Corinth Baptist Church
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CARROLL COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +87%
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
The Remnant House

The remnant house, located in lee county, mississippi provides men and women with a faith-based christian transitional living home and recovery program. our christ-centered one year transitional living recovery program allows an individual…

Health
2
House of Hope Ministries

Provide a home for children who have been abandoned and abused.

International
3
Greater Chattanooga Christian Services Inc

Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling

Human Services
4
Redemption House Ministries

Transitional shelter for women, men and children for central oregon. to provide shelter and a safe place for hope.

Human Services
5
House of Refuge Faith Based
Human Services
6
Keturahs Haven

Keturahs Haven is a Christ-centered home to assist homeless pregnant women who need to be loved, nurtured, encouraged and supported during their pregnancy

Human Services
7
Hananiah House

Transitional housing for women coming out of prison

Crime & Legal
8
Christian Care

Provide meals, clothing, counseling, referrals, spiritual guidance and shelter to anyone in need without charge

Housing & Shelter
9
Kingdom Harvest Ministries International

To provide food and clothing to the homeless counseling to hurting people and supplies to victims of disaster. To build and plant churches have community gatherings provide teaching training and pastoral assistance.

International
10
Born Again Ministries

To provide or connect low -income or ex-offenders affordable houses who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to have a bighter future

Health
11
Jesus House Restoration Ministries

provide a Christian rehabilitation program

Health
12
Welcome House Knoxville

Our Mission at Welcome House Knoxville is to share the love of Jesus through the ministries of hospitality and friendship. We provide safe and loving homes for individuals and families in transition to permanent housing.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Real Hope Youth Center; the most unlike its peers is Humboldt Chamber of Commerce. 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

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 111 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/45
Grantees still filing
29/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $969,760 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHUNION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION LLC: $727,000 · OtherUNION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION LLCJackson First Baptist Church: $710,000 · OtherJackson First Baptist ChurchTHE CHURCH AT SUGAR CREEK: $382,500 · OtherTHE CHURCH AT SUGAR CREEKUNION ENDOWMENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $367,000 · OtherUNION ENDOWMENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND+81 more: $1,059,765 · Other+81 moreCovenant Ranch Inc: $372,360 · Human ServicesCovenant Ra…The Dream Center: $79,000 · Human ServicesThe Dream C…HENRY COUNTY CASA INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesHENRY COUNT…BEATING HEARTS HELP CENTER: $23,000 · Human ServicesISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $22,500 · Human Services+5 more: $33,750 · Human Services+5 moreShepherd's Fire Inc: $203,000 · ReligionShepherd'…COORDINATED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $110,000 · ReligionCOORDINAT…DESIRING GOD MINISTRIES: $75,000 · ReligionDESIRING …LIFE ACTION MINISTRIES: $70,000 · ReligionLIFE ACTI…Hope Center Ministries Inc: $54,050 · ReligionHope Cent…+3 more: $9,750 · ReligionTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $418,000 · EducationHUMBOLDT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $193,500 · Arts & CultureKANES GIFT INC: $130,000 · Youth Development+3 more: $6,250 · Youth DevelopmentDOULOS PARTNERS: $80,000 · International
Other$4,216,025Human Services$600,610Religion$521,800Education$418,000Arts & Culture$193,500Youth Development$136,250International$80,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $418,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetCovenant Ranch Inc: $372,360 over 4y, 54% of budgetShepherd's Fire Inc: $203,000 over 6y, 33% of budgetHUMBOLDT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $193,500 over 1y, 41% of budgetHELPING HAND OF HUMBOLDT INC: $137,315 over 2y, 56% of budgetKANES GIFT INC: $130,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetCOORDINATED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $110,000 over 2y, 87% of budgetDOULOS PARTNERS: $80,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetThe Dream Center: $79,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetDESIRING GOD MINISTRIES: $75,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLIFE ACTION MINISTRIES: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY COUNTY CASA INC: $70,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetHope Center Ministries Inc: $54,050 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBEATING HEARTS HELP CENTER: $23,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCARE CENTER OF JACKSON INC: $19,750 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetThe Forget Me Not Foundation of Northwest Tennessee: $18,250 over 6y, 24% of budgetAnabaptist Foundation: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEVI MILES FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBIRTH CHOICE INC: $10,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMcKenzie United Neighbors: $9,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetWEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCREATE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMEUNITY CAFE: $6,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetHabitat for Humanity: $5,250 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF PARIS HENRY COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetReelfoot Rural Ministry Inc: $4,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MILAN MUSTARD SEED INC: $4,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCARROLL COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,350 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetABLE FARMS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTrudy's Kid's Cafe: $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CARROLL COUNTY: $2,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetYouth Town of Tennessee Inc: $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEaston's Angels Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetFull Count Ministries: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAREA RELIEF MINISTRIES: $2,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAGAPE HOUSE OF NORTHWEST TENNESSEE: $1,750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREAL HOPE YOUTH CENTER: $1,750 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHenry County Band Parents Club Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAll Saints Immigration Services: $1,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 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 TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds Covenant Ranch Inc ↗
  • Who funds Shepherd's Fire Inc ↗
  • Who funds HUMBOLDT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HAND OF HUMBOLDT INC ↗
  • Who funds KANES GIFT INC ↗
  • Who funds COORDINATED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds DOULOS PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds The Dream Center ↗
  • Who funds DESIRING GOD MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds LIFE ACTION MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds HENRY COUNTY CASA INC ↗
  • Who funds Hope Center Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds BEATING HEARTS HELP CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CARE CENTER OF JACKSON INC ↗
  • Who funds The Forget Me Not Foundation of Northwest Tennessee ↗
  • Who funds Anabaptist Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE LEVI MILES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BIRTH CHOICE INC ↗
  • Who funds McKenzie United Neighbors ↗

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.

West Tn Healthcare Fo…Henry County Helping …United Way of West Te…Bill and Carol Latime…The Murray Foundation…Charles & Debby Campb…Covenant Legacy Found…James E Campbell Fami…Cadence Bank Foundati…Chattanooga Christian…The Signatry Charitab…Community Foundation …
West Tn Healthcare Foundation IncTN28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: West Tn Healthcare Foundation Inc · Henry County Helping Hand Inc · United Way of West Tennesseinc Starks · Bill and Carol Latimer Charitable Foundation · The Murray Foundation Inc · Charles & Debby Campbell Family Foundation · Covenant Legacy Foundation · James E Campbell Family Foundation 26-3889180 · Cadence Bank Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc

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 Charles P Wilson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles P Wilson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
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    How do I get to Charles P Wilson Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Charles P Wilson 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 111 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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