· Private foundation
Harry T Wilks Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $89k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $815k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,000,000 |
| PYRAMID HILL SCULPTURE PARK | $402,600 |
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $375,000 |
| CINCINNATI TENNIS FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $215,000 |
| CITY OF HAMILTON | $200,000 |
| A MINDFUL MOMENT | $100,000 |
| BOONE CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| OHIO TASTE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER | $50,000 |
| TIDEPOOL | $50,000 |
| YWCA USA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| LAND IN COMMON | $18,500 |
| CINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $834k 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
- CSCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +59%
- MMMINDFUL MOMENT3× · 2022–2024 · $310k · revenue +83% · 37% of their budget
- DTDESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- MHMUSIC HALL REVITALIZATION COMPANY INCone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue -100%
- YYWCAone grant, 2020 · $300k
- CMCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -1%
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 collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
To encourage, sponsor, and promote innovative work in the arts created and presented by individuals, groups, and organizations.
The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
Via art fund is a nonprofit organization where art patrons join forces as partners in a new model of philanthropy to support visionary initiatives in art.
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
As the leader in its field, public art fund brings dynamic contemporary art to a broad audience in new york city and beyond by mounting ambitious free exhibitions of international scope and impact that offer the public powerful experiences…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Landscape Architecture Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Project Street Vet. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 155 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
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 HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HALL REVITALIZATION COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MINDFUL MOMENT ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Tennis Foundation ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE TIME INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BOONE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds The Contemporary Arts Center ↗
- Who funds DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds LAND IN COMMON INC ↗
- Who funds PIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT MIAMI ROWING CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER ↗
- Who funds LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
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: Onion Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Maine Initiativesinc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund
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 Harry T Wilks Family 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.
- Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Farm and Wilderness Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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