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George R Jr & Donna M Wilson Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$148k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
26
Organizations funded FY2023
19%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$45,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 28
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$1.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations George R Jr & Donna M Wilson Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthHuman ServicesReligionHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$148k27%
FY202326$155k19%
FY202228$107k50%
FY20219$96k22%
FY202021$107k33%
FY201917$75k71%
FY201816$73k75%
FY201711$34kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$537kReligion$158kHuman Services$30kHousing & Shelter$27kHealth$13kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kEnvironment$3kArts & Culture$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Holy Cross Academy$165,5008n/a
Saint Francis University$151,00060%
The Mission 01 Inc$20,00017%
St Matthews House Inc$4,60060%
Friends of Cedar Lane Inc$4,50053%
St John Neumann Academy$4,25050%
Laplata Volunteer Fire Dept Inc$3,60030%
The Catherine Foundation$3,6005n/a
Ocean City Volunteer Fire Company Ocean City Volunteer Fire Company$3,5002n/a
Als United Mid-Atlantic$3,50010%
Show all 23 grantees
All grantees of George R Jr & Donna M Wilson Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Holy Cross Academy$165,5008n/a
Saint Francis University$151,00060%
The Mission 01 Inc$20,00017%
St Matthews House Inc$4,60060%
Friends of Cedar Lane Inc$4,50053%
St John Neumann Academy$4,25050%
Laplata Volunteer Fire Dept Inc$3,60030%
The Catherine Foundation$3,6005n/a
Ocean City Volunteer Fire Company Ocean City Volunteer Fire Company$3,5002n/a
Als United Mid-Atlantic$3,50010%
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home$3,50040%
Naples Botanical Garden Inc$2,50030%
Catholic Relief Services$2,0002n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,50020%
North Naples Education Center Inc$1,00010%
Folds of Honor Foundation$1,00010%
St Josephs Indian School$1,0001n/a
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc$90030%
March of Dimes Inc$50010%
Patty Baker Humane Society Naples Inc$50010%
Little Sisters of the Poor of Washington DC Inc$50010%
Fr Michael Mission Inc$50010%
Florida Sheriffs Association Inc$1001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($415k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget George R Jr & Donna M Wilson Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSaint Francis University: $151,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mission 01 Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetSt Matthews House Inc: $4,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Cedar Lane Inc: $4,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetSt John Neumann Academy: $4,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLaplata Volunteer Fire Dept Inc: $3,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAls United Mid-Atlantic: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNaples Botanical Garden Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Naples Education Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFolds of Honor Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPatty Baker Humane Society Naples Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Sisters of the Poor of Washington DC Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFr Michael Mission Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About George R Jr & Donna M Wilson Family Foundation Inc

How much does George R Jr & Donna M Wilson Family Foundation Inc give?
George R Jr & Donna M Wilson Family Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $148,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does George R Jr & Donna M Wilson Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (68%), Religion (20%), Human Services (4%).
Who are George R Jr & Donna M Wilson Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Holy Cross Academy ($166k), Saint Francis University ($151k), The Mission 01 Inc ($20k).
Does George R Jr & Donna M Wilson Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does George R Jr & Donna M Wilson Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as George R Jr & Donna M Wilson Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is George R Jr & Donna M Wilson Family Foundation Inc based?
George R Jr & Donna M Wilson Family Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 66 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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