· Private foundation
Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k57 grants · $351k
- $10k–50k66 grants · $972k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $594k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Emory Winship Cancer Institute | $100,000 |
| YMCA Athens | $100,000 |
| University of Georgia Foundation | $94,000 |
| Extra Special People | $75,000 |
| Fernbank Museum Of Natural History | $75,000 |
| Georgia Tech Foundation | $50,000 |
| Shepherd Center Foundation | $50,000 |
| Young Life | $50,000 |
| Food Bank Of Northeast Georgia | $45,000 |
| St Marys Independent Living Extensi | $35,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $30,000 |
| Childrens Healthcare Of Atlanta | $30,000 |
| Ashton Hope Keegan Foundation | $25,000 |
| Friends Of Disabled Adults and Chil | $25,000 |
| Prevent Child Abuse Habersham | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $463k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 90% of Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 10% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
171 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2025, 111 since wound down; 71 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $956k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $75k · revenue +46%- MSMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE2× · 2024–2025 · $44k · revenue +18%
- ECEMANUEL CO CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION CTR2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF OCONEE HILL CEMETARYone grant, 2024 · $50k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIAone grant, 2024 · $50k
- SCSHEPHERD CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -12%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…
To partner with patients and communities to support wellness through compassionate, quality healthcare.
InCommunity provides meaningful support to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live safe, healthy, and joyful lives in their communities.
Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.
Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.
Our mission is to create life-changing solutions for people with disabilities.
To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.
Georgia Center for Opportunity GCO is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
Easter Seals East Georgia's mission is to provide exceptional services to ensure that people with disabilities and barriers to employment maximize their potential for employment and independence and broaden their opportunities for full…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is St Mary's Independent Living Extension. 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 36 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 21% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
151 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. 151 of the 443 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Extra Special People Inc ↗
- Who funds Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ATHENS GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASHTON HOPE KEEGAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation Inc · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Waterfall 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 Wood Wilson Foundation Inc 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.
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.