Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Edward M Wilson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 89
- Grants FY2024
- 83
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $110,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 70 to 83
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $38M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Edward M Wilson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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 | 89 | $1.6M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 83 | $1.6M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 79 | $1.8M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 70 | $1.4M | 3% |
| FY2020 | 73 | $1.5M | 5% |
| FY2019 | 81 | $1.6M | 22% |
| FY2018 | 81 | $1.5M | 27% |
| FY2017 | 83 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne Inc | $700,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Junior Achievement of Northern in Inc | $490,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Auburn Automotive Heritage Inc | $475,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Fort Wayne Zoological Society Inc | $450,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Ind | $432,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc | $400,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Trine University | $345,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Embassy Theatre Foundationinc | $325,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $315,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra Inc | $310,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 114 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Edward M Wilson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 105 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: English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · Flora Dale Krouse Foundation · M E Raker Foundation Inc · McMillen Foundation Inc · Surack Family Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Zollner Foundation
How this is measured
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About Edward M Wilson Foundation
- How much does Edward M Wilson Foundation give?
- Edward M Wilson Foundation reported 89 grants totaling $1,609,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 83 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Edward M Wilson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Human Services (12%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are Edward M Wilson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne Inc ($700k), Junior Achievement of Northern in Inc ($490k), Auburn Automotive Heritage Inc ($475k).
- Does Edward M Wilson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edward M Wilson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Edward M Wilson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn, Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc, Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn.
- Where is Edward M Wilson Foundation based?
- Edward M Wilson Foundation is based in PA.
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