· Private foundation
Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k57 grants · $351k
- $10k–50k66 grants · $972k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $594k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA Athens | $100,000 |
| Emory Winship Cancer Institute | $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 |
| Emory University School Of Medicine | $25,000 |
| Prevent Child Abuse Habersham | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 90% of Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 10%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
173 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2025, 112 since wound down; 70 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $941k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
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
- SCSHEPHERD CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -12%
- FOFRIENDS OF OCONEE HILL CEMETARYone grant, 2024 · $50k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIAone grant, 2024 · $50k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
151 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 151 of the 441 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds ASHTON HOPE KEEGAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Play a game based on Frances Wood Wilson’s filings →