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Jerry J Wilson Memorial Foundation Inc co Jennifer Wilson

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$112k
Granted FY2023
44
Grants FY2023
12
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of Jerry J Wilson Memorial Foundation Inc co Jennifer Wilson’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.

02FY2023 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k43 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$1,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Institute of American Acupuncture & Life$10,500
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant$7,500
Drishti Compost Inc$7,000
national center for lesbian rights$7,000
Individual grant recipient$6,500
Judeo Christian Outreach Center$6,000
Virginia Association for Biological$6,000
fellowhip of inner light$6,000
Fayette County Community Foundation$5,500
Next River$5,000
Under the Same Sun$3,500
Pollen8$3,500
Individual grant recipient$3,000
st louis Zoo foundation$3,000
ACLU$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Pourhouse: $2k → 16%Pollen8: $4k → 18%YMCA of South Hampton Roads: $2k → 9%Norfolk CASA Inc: $1k → 19%angel arms: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
KS
AR
NC
DC
HI
OK
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$664k · 71 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

71 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2023, 38 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
34

Total granted

$664k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+10%

Still filing today

48%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationInternationalFood & NutritionOther

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

  • NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS
    7× · 2017–2023 · $46k · revenue +73%
  • EB
    EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT
    7× · 2017–2023 · $46k · revenue +135%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $15k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • MA
    MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +33%
  • OF
    OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +7%
  • SH
    Samaritan House Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -19%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
2
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
6
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
7
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
8
Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal
9
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
10
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

11
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
12
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Food Search Inc and the most unlike its peers is Drishti Compost 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Community FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesAffordable Housing Developm…Local Food System Organizat…Cancer Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Policy Research and AdvocacyLocal History MuseumsIndependent K-12 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and ShelterLgbtq+ Community Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%34%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%18%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/68
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,497

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.

04the grantee network

64 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 117 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
49/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Institute of American Acupuncture & Life — $74,000 · OtherInstitute of American Acupuncture & LifeNATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS — $45,700 · OtherNATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTSfellowhip of inner light — $28,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $28,000 · Otherst louis Zoo foundation — $25,000 · OtherEcology Action — $23,000 · OtherFirst Presbyterian Church — $18,000 · Other+77 more — $297,733 · Other+77 moreNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL R…DRISHTI COMPOST INC — $14,000 · EnvironmentDRISHTI C…SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — $7,000 · EnvironmentSOGOREA T…GREENPEACE FUND INC — $6,000 · EnvironmentGREENPEAC…HONOR THE EARTH — $6,000 · EnvironmentHONOR THE…Planting Justice — $5,000 · EnvironmentPlanting …EARTHJUSTICE — $4,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUST…OCEAN CONSERVANCY — $4,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CON…+1 more — $500 · EnvironmentEAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT — $45,500 · Community ImprovementNAMI St Louis — $13,500 · HealthCraig Hospital Foundation — $13,334 · HealthTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION — $4,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $2,333 · Health+3 more — $2,500 · HealthFOODSHED CAPITAL — $8,500 · Food & NutritionMARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST — $4,000 · Food & NutritionOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC — $4,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $2,000 · Food & NutritionFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA — $1,000 · Food & NutritionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $9,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $5,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $4,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $1,200 · International+1 more — $200 · InternationalNEW SONG MISSION INC — $5,500 · EducationDELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION — $4,000 · EducationHawaii Farmers Union Foundation — $4,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $3,000 · EducationFORSYTH SCHOOL INC — $1,500 · Education+1 more — $500 · Education
Other$539,933Environment$61,500Community Improvement$45,500Health$35,667Food & Nutrition$19,500International$19,400Education$18,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS — $45,700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT — $45,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $15,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI St Louis — $13,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation — $13,334 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOODSHED CAPITAL — $8,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT — $6,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHONOR THE EARTH — $6,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWEBSTER GROVES SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetNEW SONG MISSION INC — $5,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPlanting Justice — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNext River — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB — $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHawaii Farmers Union Foundation — $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPollen 8 Inc — $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH SPCA — $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan House Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $2,333 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POURHOUSE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWP-THE YOUTH MOVEMENT — $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFORSYTH SCHOOL INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSlow Money Institute Inc — $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA RESCUE MISSION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORFOLK CASA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS
  • Who funds EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds DRISHTI COMPOST INC
  • Who funds NAMI St Louis
  • Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds FOODSHED CAPITAL
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds JUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC
  • Who funds SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST
  • Who funds ACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC
  • Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC
  • Who funds HONOR THE EARTH
  • Who funds WEBSTER GROVES SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NEW SONG MISSION INC
  • Who funds Planting Justice

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.

Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA23.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Sterzing Charitable Trust · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Sentara Health · Dollar Bank Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation

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 Jerry J Wilson Memorial Foundation Inc co Jennifer Wilson 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • The University of Tulsa5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Jerry J Wilson Memorial Foundation Inc co Jennifer Wilson?

Find your warmest path to Jerry J Wilson Memorial Foundation Inc co Jennifer Wilson through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 117 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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