· Private foundation
James and Mildred Wilkinson Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of JAMES AND MILDRED WILKINSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $261k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VOYAGER ACADEMY | $53,377 |
| MEREDITH AUTISM PROGRAM | $30,000 |
| METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - TRIANGLE AREA CHAPTER | $25,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM | $25,000 |
| MT SYLVAN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE | $23,000 |
| GUIDED IMPACT FOUNDATION | $15,300 |
| CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $10,000 |
| DON LEE CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER | $10,000 |
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, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
35 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 9 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
The Methodist Home for Children Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +53%
THE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY6× · 2019–2024 · $72k · revenue +11%- VAVOYAGER ACADEMY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- MUMETHODIST UNIVERSITY - WOMEN'S GOLF TEAMone grant, 2023 · $5k
STEPUP DURHAMone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -12%
BALD HEAD ISLAND CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +6%
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.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
To promote real estate by providing ethical, professional services to its members and consumers seeking real estate information
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Junior achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating private and public school students in grades k-12 about entrepreneurship, workforce readiness, and financial literacy, through experiential, hands-on programs.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
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…
In collaboration with the legal community, NCEAJF empowers North Carolinians to navigate the civil justice system.
To advocate for the health of all North Carolinians by pursuing equitable and collaborative solutions that address climate change and air pollution.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
Securing equality and justice for lgbtq north carolinians.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Triangle Golf Foundation Inc Dba the First Tee of the Triangle and the most unlike its peers is Durham Success Summit Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 67 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 TRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds The Methodist Home for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds VOYAGER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds Guided Impact Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CL ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SAGAMORE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Designed For Joy ↗
- Who funds Urban Ministries of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPUP DURHAM ↗
- Who funds BALD HEAD ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Volunteers for Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Grandfather Community Foundation Inc ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke University · Duke University Health System Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Silverback Foundation Inc · The Forest At Duke Inc · A E Finley Foundation Inc · Truist 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 James and Mildred Wilkinson Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% 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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