· Private foundation
J Tylee Wilson 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 $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $119k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATIO | $50,000 |
| LAKE OF THE OZARKS SHOOTOUT | $27,500 |
| R J REYNOLDS HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE INC | $11,000 |
| SUNRISE BEACH FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT | $10,500 |
| LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CAPE FEAR INC | $10,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC | $10,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| THALIAN HALL CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC | $10,000 |
| CAPE FEAR LITERACY COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| THE NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| VILLAGE OF SUNRISE BEACH | $8,300 |
| WAKE FOR WARRIORS INC | $8,000 |
| PTA NORTH CAROLINA CONGRESS | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +61% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 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; $77k 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
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $325k · revenue +24%- MUMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +70%
- AOABC OF NC CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER7× · 2017–2023 · $85k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- CICARDIOSTART INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -40%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR THE SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF AND THE BLone grant, 2019 · $15k
- MWMaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Incone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +4%
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.
The mission of Historic Wilmington Foundation is to protect and preserve the irreplaceable historic resources of Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear Region.
To enhance the university of north carolina at wilmington's educational mission, without limitation, overseeing and assisting with the acquisition and financing of capital assets for the university.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
Facilitate networking among hospitals
Showcase intercollegiate athletics by hosting an annual National Collegiate Golf Invitational at the Landfall Country Club and to provide support to the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Uncsa foundation's primary purpose is to financially support the advancement and achievement of the students, faculty, and staff of the university of north carolina school of the arts. the uncsa foundation strives to support the strategic…
Our mission is to inspire conservation of the natural world by exhibiting and caring for animals, by excelling in education and research, and by providing an exceptional visitor experience.
Wilmington School of the Arts is a tuition-free, public charter school located in New Hanover County, North Carolina. Its mission is to inspire students to pursue excellence in academics and the arts by awakening and nuturing the creative…
To protect and improve the water quality of the Cape Fear River Basin for all people through education, advocacy, and action.
To pursue the development of research facilities and research projects for the university of north carolina at wilmington.
Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Coastal Federation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 37 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 WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CARDIOSTART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ABC OF NC CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Library Foundation of New Hanover County Inc ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Cape Fear Inc ↗
- Who funds Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LAKE OF THE OZARKS SHOOTOUT INC ↗
- Who funds Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW HANOVER REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds R J REYNOLDS HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE INC ↗
- Who funds MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RODEHEAVER BOYS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds PTA NORTH CAROLINA CONGRESS RJ REYNOLDS HS PTSA ↗
- Who funds Cape Fear Academy ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAFETY NET OF MO ↗
- Who funds Adaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc ↗
- Who funds Semper Fi Society of St Louis ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Soccer Foundation ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Directed Balloun Family Foundation · The Landfall Foundation Inc · The Moore Charitable Foundation Inc · Grace Jones Richardson Testamentary Trust C/O Piedmont Trust Co · Reynolds American Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc
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 J Tylee Wilson 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.
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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