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Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust at a glance

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Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$525k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$251k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$1.3MArts & Culture$427kFood & Nutrition$344kInternational$292kHuman Services$272kHealth$198kScience & Tech$158kEnvironment$145kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $97k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $117k
  • $250k+1 grant · $251k
$2,931
Median grant
2
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF FORT COLLINS$251,226
DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER$60,000
DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER$56,694
CARNEGIE CENTER FOR CREATIVITY$27,000
NO BARRIERS USA$25,500
FORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$16,576
CASA OF LARIMER COUNTY$15,307
POUDRE RIVER LIBRARY TRUST$12,500
THE JACOB CENTER$7,234
RAM STRENGTH LUBICK FOUNDATION$6,990
RESPITE CARE INC$5,680
REALITIES FOR CHILDREN$3,957
CROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE$3,795
LARIMER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$3,699
FOOTHILLS GATEWAY$3,506
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, $242k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BABY FOUNDATION: $327 → 11%CHILDRENS SPEECH & READING CENTER: $100k → 11%MATTHEWS HOUSE: $8k → 11%THE JACOB CENTER: $7k → 11%DISABLED RESOURCE SERVICES: $5k → 11%DISABLED RESOURCE SERVICES: $5k → 11%DISABLED RESOURCE SERVICES: $5k → 11%DISABLED RESOURCE SERVICES: $4k → 11%LIVE THE VICTORY INC: $4k → 11%MATTHEWS HOUSE: $2k → 11%HOMEWARD ALLIANCE: $1k → 11%PATHWAYS HOSPICE: $10k → 11%FOOTHILLS GATEWAY: $8k → 11%RESPITE CARE INC: $7k → 11%FOOTHILLS GATEWAY: $6k → 11%RESPITE CARE INC: $6k → 11%RESPITE CARE INC: $5k → 11%FOOTHILLS GATEWAY: $5k → 11%RESPITE CARE INC: $5k → 11%PATHWAYS HOSPICE: $4k → 11%FOOTHILLS GATEWAY: $4k → 11%FOOTHILLS GATEWAY: $4k → 11%FOOTHILLS GATEWAY: $4k → 11%FOOTHILLS GATEWAY: $4k → 11%FOOTHILLS GATEWAY: $4k → 11%FAMILY HOUSING NETWORK: $3k → 11%PATHWAYS HOSPICE: $3k → 11%PATHWAYS HOSPICE: $3k → 11%RESPITE CARE INC: $2k → 11%FAMILY HOUSING NETWORK OF FORT COLL: $2k → 11%PATHWAYS HOSPICE: $2k → 11%RESPITE CARE INC: $2k → 11%FAMILY HOUSING NETWORK: $2k → 11%FAMILY HOUSING NETWORK: $2k → 11%FOOTHILLS GATEWAY: $2k → 11%RESPITE CARE INC: $397 → 11%RESPITE CARE INC: $235 → 11%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 41 repeat orgs$373k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
40

Total granted

$3.1M
$308k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+4%

Still filing today

59%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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 ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • FC
    FORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY FKA DISCOVERY CENTER SCIENCE MUSEUM
    5× · 2017–2021 · $215k · revenue +26%
  • SA
    SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM ADVOCATE CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +72%
  • TF
    The Food Bank for Larimer County
    7× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • CS
    CHILDREN'S SPEECH & READING CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -45%
  • FC
    FORT COLLINS LINCOLN CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $60k
  • GE
    GARTH ENGLUND BLOOD DONATION CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $55k
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
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
2
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
3
Lutheran Social Services of Colorado

Rooted in the values of kindness, dignity and social justice, lfsrm strenghtens communities by providing support, guidance, and resource coordination to individuals and families throughout the rocky mountain region.

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4
Colorado Casa Inc

Colorado CASA is a nonprofit organization that works to strengthen local CASA organizations and advocate for children in the child welfare system.

Civil Rights
5
Family Voices Colorado Inc

Making colorado a better place for children and youth with special healthcare needs.

Human Services
6
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
7
Summitstone Health Partners

SummitStone provides comprehensive behavioral health services across all care levels: 24/7 crisis services, inpatient and outpatient treatment, housing, residential care, and peer support. We partner with law enforcement, schools, and…

Health
8
Colorado Child Advocacy Alliance

To support the missions of child advocacy centers in colorado to help children and their families heal from abuse and neglect via training, technical assistance, collaboration and strategic partnerships.

Crime & Legal
9
Advocates for Recovery Colorado

Recovery from addiction is a process of gaining sobriety and contributing to one's family and community as a healthy productive person. AFRC provides peer coach mentoring to individuals in recovery from substance use disorders.

Human Services
10
Porchlight a Family Justice Center

To bring together essential services for victims, survivors and their children to create a positive pathway forward, and to foster public safety.

Crime & Legal
11
Colorado Cross Disability Coalition

To advocate for social justice for people with all types of disabilities.

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12
Adoption Options

Adoption options is a non-profit,colorado corporation, dedicated to providing the state of colorado with a range of private, non-secretarian child placement services.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Realities for Children Charities; the most unlike its peers is Kawasaki Kids Foundation Kawasaki Kids Foundation. 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

36 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. 36 of the 89 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
25/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF FORT COLLINS: $1,300,737 · OtherCITY OF FORT COLLINSUC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $338,994 · OtherUC HEALTH FOUNDATIONDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER: $157,736 · OtherDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTERFRIENDS OF THE GARDENS OF SPRING CREEK: $144,691 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE GARDENS OF SPRING CREEK+65 more: $575,866 · Other+65 moreNO BARRIERS USA: $292,271 · InternationalNO BARRIE…CHILDREN'S SPEECH & READING CENTER: $100,000 · Human ServicesFOOTHILLS GATEWAY INC: $40,188 · Human ServicesRESPITE CARE INC: $27,977 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS HOSPICE: $22,184 · Human ServicesDISABLED RESOURCE SERVICES INC: $19,244 · Human ServicesTHE MATTHEWS HOUSE: $13,994 · Human ServicesFamily Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc: $9,771 · Human Services+3 more: $9,011 · Human ServicesFORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY FKA DISCOVERY CENTER SCIENCE MUSEUM: $215,415 · Arts & CultureSEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM ADVOCATE CENTER: $55,345 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $32,632 · Education+2 more: $1,700 · EducationThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $43,050 · Food & NutritionBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY: $36,114 · Youth DevelopmentLARIMER COUNTY PARTNERS DBA PARTNERS MENTORING YOUTH: $2,455 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,161 · Youth Development
Other$2,518,024International$292,271Human Services$242,369Arts & Culture$215,415Education$89,677Food & Nutrition$43,050Youth Development$39,730

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 budgetNO BARRIERS USA: $292,271 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetFORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY FKA DISCOVERY CENTER SCIENCE MUSEUM: $215,415 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GARDENS OF SPRING CREEK: $144,691 over 5y, 12% of budgetCHILDREN'S SPEECH & READING CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM ADVOCATE CENTER: $55,345 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $43,050 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOOTHILLS GATEWAY INC: $40,188 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY: $36,114 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $32,632 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFORT COLLINS MUNICIPAL RAILWAY SOCIETY: $30,106 over 6y, 26% of budgetRESPITE CARE INC: $27,977 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC: $23,738 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPATHWAYS HOSPICE: $22,184 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDISABLED RESOURCE SERVICES INC: $19,244 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE: $19,076 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $16,576 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INC: $14,174 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MATTHEWS HOUSE: $13,994 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetREALITIES FOR CHILDREN CHARITIES: $13,496 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPOUDRE RIVER LIBRARY TRUST INC: $12,500 over 1y, 20% of budgetFamily Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc: $9,771 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUCHEALTH NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION: $9,699 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION OF LARIMER COUNTY: $8,424 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetJACOB FAMILY SERVICES INC: $7,234 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOPE LIVES THE LYDIA DODY BREAST CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $5,835 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPOUDRE LANDMARKS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLARIMER COUNTY PARTNERS DBA PARTNERS MENTORING YOUTH: $2,455 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC: $1,450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Family Outreach Inc: $1,161 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL LEADERS INC: $695 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST: $599 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKAWASAKI KIDS FOUNDATION KAWASAKI KIDS FOUNDATION: $465 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CRAWFORD CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $384 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMY HAPPY PLACE: $227 over 1y, 0.5% 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 NO BARRIERS USA ↗
  • Who funds FORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY FKA DISCOVERY CENTER SCIENCE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GARDENS OF SPRING CREEK ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SPEECH & READING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM ADVOCATE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
  • Who funds FOOTHILLS GATEWAY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FORT COLLINS MUNICIPAL RAILWAY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds RESPITE CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS HOSPICE ↗
  • Who funds DISABLED RESOURCE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds FORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MATTHEWS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds REALITIES FOR CHILDREN CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds POUDRE RIVER LIBRARY TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc ↗
  • Who funds UCHEALTH NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗

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.

Otter Cares Foundatio…Community Foundation …Colorado Gives Founda…Woodward Governor Cha…United Way of Larimer…Northern Colorado Uni…The Nordson Corporati…Anschutz Family Found…Poudre Valley Health …Realities for Childre…The Food Bank for Lar…El Pomar Foundation
Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATIONCO67.4× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 & May Wilkins Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 89 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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