Colorado · Private foundation
Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $525k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,931
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $251,226
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $16M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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 | 29 | $525k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $462k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $484k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $597k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $255k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $443k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $277k | 39% |
| FY2017 | 35 | $398k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Fort Collins | $1,300,737 | 8 | n/a |
| No Barriers USA | $292,271 | 6 | 4% |
| Fort Collins Museum of Discovery Fka Discovery Center Science Museum | $215,415 | 5 | 5% |
| Friends of the Gardens of Spring Creek | $144,691 | 5 | 12% |
| Children's Speech & Reading Center | $100,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Sexual Assault Victim Advocate Center | $55,345 | 7 | 4% |
| The Food Bank for Larimer County | $43,050 | 7 | 0% |
| Foothills Gateway Inc | $40,188 | 8 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County | $36,114 | 6 | 1% |
| Colorado State University Foundation | $32,632 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($908k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Colorado Gives Foundation · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · United Way of Larimer County · Northern Colorado United for Youth · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Poudre Valley Health Care Inc · Realities for Children Charities · The Food Bank for Larimer County · El Pomar Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust with peer funders
About Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust
- How much does Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust give?
- Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust reported 32 grants totaling $525,255 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (38%), Arts & Culture (12%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
- Who are Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: City of Fort Collins ($1.3M), No Barriers USA ($292k), Fort Collins Museum of Discovery Fka Discovery Center Science Museum ($215k).
- Does Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION, Community Foundation of Northern Colorado, Colorado Gives Foundation.
- Where is Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust based?
- Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust is based in CO.
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