California · Private foundation
Don and Elinor Wilson Charitable Foundation
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.
- $8k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Median grant, FY2024
- $8,068
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $8,068
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Don and Elinor Wilson Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $291k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $8k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $291k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $31k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $35k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $42k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $21k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $38k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rancho Santa Fe Education Foundation | $35,201 | 1 | 2% |
| Choc Foundation | $30,799 | 1 | 0% |
| March of Dimes Inc | $17,984 | 1 | n/a |
| First Christian Church of H B | $11,445 | 1 | n/a |
| Girls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara | $10,356 | 1 | 0% |
| Assistance League of Long Beach | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Joseph Hospital of Orange | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Punahou School | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Pups and Pals Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rancho Santa Fe Education Foundation | $35,201 | 1 | 2% |
| Choc Foundation | $30,799 | 1 | 0% |
| March of Dimes Inc | $17,984 | 1 | n/a |
| First Christian Church of H B | $11,445 | 1 | n/a |
| Girls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara | $10,356 | 1 | 0% |
| Assistance League of Long Beach | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Joseph Hospital of Orange | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Punahou School | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Pups and Pals Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cambodian Health Professionals Association of America | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern California Golden Retriever Rescue | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Memorial Medical Center Foundation | $2,148 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($304k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Don and Elinor Wilson Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
Compare Don and Elinor Wilson Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Don and Elinor Wilson Charitable Foundation
- How much does Don and Elinor Wilson Charitable Foundation give?
- Don and Elinor Wilson Charitable Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $8,068 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Don and Elinor Wilson Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (67%), Education (11%), Housing & Shelter (5%).
- Who are Don and Elinor Wilson Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rancho Santa Fe Education Foundation ($35k), Choc Foundation ($31k), March of Dimes Inc ($18k).
- Does Don and Elinor Wilson Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Don and Elinor Wilson Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Don and Elinor Wilson Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Don and Elinor Wilson Charitable Foundation based?
- Don and Elinor Wilson Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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