· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $332k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $265k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PYRAMID HILL SCULPTURE PARK | $1,076,915 |
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,020,000 |
| HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $321,750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION | $280,000 |
| A MINDFUL MOMENT | $100,000 |
| BLUE HILL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| GREAT MIAMI ROWING CENTER | $55,000 |
| TIDE POOL INC | $50,000 |
| YWCA | $25,000 |
| BUTLER COUNTY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $20,000 |
| INSPIRATION STUDIES | $20,000 |
| ARTS WAVE | $20,000 |
| CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION | $17,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,030 |
| TYLER MORGAN STEPHAN FRIEDEL | $16,030 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 29 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $621k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA6× · 2020–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +59%
- MMMINDFUL MOMENT4× · 2022–2025 · $410k · revenue +83% · 37% of their budget
- GMGREAT MIAMI ROWING CENTER3× · 2019–2025 · $76k · revenue +85% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- MHMUSIC HALL REVITALIZATION COMPANY INCone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue -100%
- TCThe Cincinnati Tennis Foundationone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +12%
- COCITY OF HAMILTONone grant, 2024 · $200k
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 collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
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 organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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)
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
White columns identifies significant emerging and under-represented visual artists and encourages their creative and professional development through the presentation of group and solo exhibitions, an online curated artists registry, and…
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
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.
To encourage, sponsor, and promote innovative work in the arts created and presented by individuals, groups, and organizations.
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
How this is measured
77 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. 77 of the 185 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
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 HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HALL REVITALIZATION COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MINDFUL MOMENT ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Tennis Foundation ↗
- 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 GREAT MIAMI ROWING CENTER ↗
- Who funds DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TIDE POOL INC ↗
- Who funds LAND IN COMMON INC ↗
- Who funds FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds YWCA USA INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds INSPIRATION STUDIOS ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harry T Wilks Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry T Wilks Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation: 2% of income from government
- Farm and Wilderness Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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