Skip to content
Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Frances & Frank Wilkinson 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.

$163k
Granted FY2025still arriving
59
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$73k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$208kEnvironment$14kRecreation & Sports$11kEducation$8kReligion$6kYouth Development$6kPhilanthropy$6kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k54 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $42k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
$250
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PUBLIC THEATER$72,500
WALKER ART CENTER$12,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
GUTHRIE THEATER$10,000
MINNEAPOLIS PARKS FOUNDATION$10,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$7,500
MSP FILM SOCIETY$7,000
GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY$5,000
ST MARKS CATHEDRAL CHURCH$5,000
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$3,000
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART$2,500
PROJECT SUCCESS$2,000
THEATER LATTE DA$2,000
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$1,500
GENDER JUSTICE$1,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $250 → 14%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $100 → 11%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $250 → 14%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $100 → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $100 → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $100 → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $100 → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
VA
NM
NC
DC
GA
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$219k · 81 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

81 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
36

Total granted

$219k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
0%

Still filing today

75%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalEnvironmentFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • WA
    WALKER ART CENTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +6%
  • GT
    GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2025 · $13k · revenue +46%
  • MO
    Museum of Modern Art
    4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • MF
    MN FILM SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • TF
    THE FILM SOCIETY OF MINNEAPOLIS ST PAULgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +94%
  • PH
    PILLSBURY HOUSE THEATER
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…

Community Improvement
2
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

—
5
Minnesota Fringe Festival

Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.

Arts & Culture
6
The Great Northern Winter Festival

The great northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. in an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action,…

Arts & Culture
7
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
8
Minnesota Environmental Partnership

The minnesota environmental partnership is a coalition that strengthens member effectiveness and builds collective power to secure a healthy environment for all minnesotans.

Environment
9
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
10
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

—
11
Minnesota Women Lawyers

To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.

—
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

93 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. 93 of the 134 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/93
Grantees still filing
50/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $109,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALWALKER ART CENTER: $17,000 · Arts & CultureWALKER ART CENTERGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATIONMuseum of Modern Art: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+27 more: $35,203 · Arts & Culture+27 moreIndividual grant recipient: $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMN FILM SOCIETY: $10,000 · OtherMN FILM SOCIETYTRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $7,500 · OtherTRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDMSP FILM SOCIETY: $7,000 · OtherMSP FILM SOCIETYST MARKS CATHEDRAL CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherST MARKS CATHEDRAL CHURCHPILLSBURY HOUSE THEATER: $5,000 · OtherPILLSBURY HOUSE THEATERCHILDRENS THEATER COMPANY: $3,500 · OtherGENDER JUSTICE: $3,000 · Other+58 more: $23,361 · Other+58 morePROJECT SUCCESS: $6,000 · EducationDavidson College: $3,000 · EducationBreck School: $1,750 · EducationThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $1,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $1,100 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $750 · Education+6 more: $1,100 · EducationMinneapolis Parks Foundation: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $100 · Recreation & SportsGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $5,000 · PhilanthropyWomen's Foundation of Minnesota: $200 · PhilanthropySIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER: $750 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $750 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $300 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $300 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE: $300 · EnvironmentCLEAN WATER FUND: $200 · EnvironmentAmerican Forests: $200 · EnvironmentTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $750 · InternationalPLOUGHSHARES FUND INC: $750 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $400 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $350 · InternationalMADRE INC: $300 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $300 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $300 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $200 · International+4 more: $400 · International
Arts & Culture$179,703Other$76,361Education$14,950Recreation & Sports$10,100Philanthropy$5,200Environment$4,300International$3,750

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 budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $109,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMinneapolis Parks Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SUCCESS: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPENUMBRA THEATRE COMPANY INC: $5,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FILM SOCIETY OF MINNEAPOLIS ST PAUL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATER LATTE DA: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDavidson College: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENDER JUSTICE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBreck School: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRAYWOLF PRESS: $1,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $1,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEFORE RACISM: $1,011 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUNGLE THEATER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLOUGHSHARES FUND INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $503 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S THEATER KIDS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSPIREMSP: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRADEMARK THEATER: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $400 over 4y, 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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The McKnight Foundati…Mightycause Charitabl…Xcel Energy FoundationMargaret a Cargill Fo…George Family Foundat…Ch Robinson Worldwide…The Phileona Foundati…Fr Bigelow FoundationMinnesota Community F…Lenfestey Family Foun…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN48.5× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · George Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Phileona Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Lenfestey Family Foundation Inc

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 Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 134 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Frances & Frank Wilkinson’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home