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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 you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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
MINNEAPOLIS PARKS FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
GUTHRIE THEATER$10,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$7,500
MSP FILM SOCIETY$7,000
ST MARKS CATHEDRAL CHURCH$5,000
GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY$5,000
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$3,000
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART$2,500
THEATER LATTE DA$2,000
PROJECT SUCCESS$2,000
GENDER JUSTICE$1,500
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$1,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your 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 your 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

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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

+6%
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

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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%
  • PS
    PROJECT SUCCESS
    4× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +33%

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

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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…

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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…

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11
Minnesota Women Lawyers

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

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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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr20%27%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr13%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr20%17%20–35yr15%7%35–55yr13%74%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/96
the rest of the field
12%
5,623/46,353

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
93/93
Grantees still filing
47/93
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE — $300 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $300 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetPROJECT SUCCESS — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $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 budgetTHEATER LATTE DA — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGENDER JUSTICE — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDavidson College — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $1,500 over 2y, 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 budgetTHE JUNGLE THEATER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $750 over 3y, 0.0% 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 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 budgetTRADEMARK THEATER — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROSIE'S THEATER KIDS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSPIREMSP — $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc — $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 134 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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