Kentucky · Private foundation
Harry T Wilks Family 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.
- $3.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,076,915
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 37
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $22M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 65% of the organizations Harry T Wilks Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 44 | $3.0M | 66% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $2.8M | 65% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $1.3M | 60% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $914k | 61% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $1.7M | 45% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $1.1M | 54% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $2.0M | 70% |
| FY2017 | 35 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra | $2,065,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Miami University | $750,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Music Hall Revitalization Company Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Mindful Moment | $410,000 | 4 | 37% |
| The University of Cincinnati Foundation | $280,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Museum Association | $251,500 | 2 | 1% |
| The Cincinnati Tennis Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | 21% |
| Creative Time Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Carnegie Visual & Performing Arts Center | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
| The Boone Conservancy Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 17% |
Show all 79 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 102 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Harry T Wilks Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Harry T Wilks Family Foundation
- How much does Harry T Wilks Family Foundation give?
- Harry T Wilks Family Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $3,385,465 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Harry T Wilks Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Philanthropy (25%), Education (13%).
- Who are Harry T Wilks Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra ($2.1M), Miami University ($750k), Music Hall Revitalization Company Inc ($500k).
- Does Harry T Wilks Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harry T Wilks Family Foundation 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 Harry T Wilks Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Onion Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Maine Initiativesinc.
- Where is Harry T Wilks Family Foundation based?
- Harry T Wilks Family Foundation is based in KY.
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