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Don and Elinor Wilson Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Health$325kEducation$55kHousing & Shelter$23kRecreation & Sports$20kAnimals$18kReligion$11kYouth Development$10kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$8,068
Median grant
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States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MS GIFT DON & ELINOR WILSON FOUNDATION$8,068
02The need
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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 (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMBODIAN HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ASSOC: $5k → 14%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 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.

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Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
2
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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4
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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5
Children's Healthcare of California

The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…

Health
6
Ucsf Health Medical Foundation

See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…

Health
7
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
8
Children's Hospital of Orange County

To nurture, advance and protect the health and well-being of children.

Health
9
Usc Care Medical Group Inc

To promote health by engaging in the practice of medicine for patients of hospitals affiliated with the university of southern california keck school of medicine and elsewhere. to provide medical care to the sick and injured who may come…

Health
10
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
11
Mount Sinai Health System Inc

The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Human Services
12
Mills-Peninsula Hospital Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Medical Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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

13 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. 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MS GIFT DON & ELINOR WILSON FOUNDATION: $263,856 · OtherMS GIFT DON & ELINOR WILSON FOUNDATIONLONG BEACH RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $22,500 · OtherLONG BEACH RONALD MCDONALD HOUSEFIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF H B: $11,445 · Other+5 more: $42,856 · Other+5 moreCHOC FOUNDATION: $30,799 · HealthCHOC FOUNDATIO…MARCH OF DIMES INC: $17,984 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES…ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL OF ORANGE: $10,000 · HealthST JOSEPH HOSP…MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,148 · HealthRANCHO SANTA FE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $35,201 · PhilanthropyUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $20,000 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $7,500 · EducationMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · AnimalsSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE: $2,500 · AnimalsCambodian Health Professionals Association of America: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$340,657Health$60,931Philanthropy$35,201Education$32,500Animals$12,500Human Services$5,000

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 budgetRANCHO SANTA FE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $35,201 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $30,799 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $10,356 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JOSEPH HOSPITAL OF ORANGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCambodian Health Professionals Association of America: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,148 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.

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.

American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH10.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Don and Elinor Wilson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Don and Elinor Wilson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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