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Jerry J Wilson Memorial Foundation Inc co Jennifer Wilson

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.

$130k
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$185kEducation$103kEnvironment$103kReligion$73kFood & Nutrition$58kCivil Rights$54kCrime & Legal$47kAnimals$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k43 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
$1,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant$10,500
Institute of American Acupuncture & Life$10,000
national center for lesbian rights$10,000
st louis Zoo foundation$8,000
Food Bank of Southeastern VA$7,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Commonwealth Catholic Charities Dio$5,000
YMCA of South Hampton Roads$5,000
LGBT Life Center$5,000
NAMI St Louis$4,500
Bay Area Lesbian Archives$4,000
Virginia Association for Biological$3,500
Magic House- 1979 Circle$3,000
Planned Parenthood$3,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%The Pourhouse: $2k → 16%Pollen8: $4k → 18%YMCA of South Hampton Roads: $5k → 9%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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$845k · 87 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

87 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
52

Total granted

$845k
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+8%

Still filing today

47%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationInternationalFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • EB
    EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT
    8× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +135%
  • NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +73%
  • NS
    NAMI St Louis
    8× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $17k
  • NC
    Natl Center for Lesbian
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • SL
    St Louis Zoo
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
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.

04Its field

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.

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World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

International
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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
3
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
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
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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
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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
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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.

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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
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
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International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Food Search Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Life You Can Save. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 153 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
50/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Institute of American Acupuncture & Life: $94,500 · OtherInstitute of American Acupuncture & LifeNATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS: $55,700 · OtherNATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTSIndividual grant recipient: $39,000 · Otherst louis Zoo foundation: $33,000 · Otherfellowhip of inner light: $28,500 · Other+109 more: $504,133 · Other+109 moreNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $17,500 · EnvironmentDRISHTI COMPOST INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $9,000 · EnvironmentPlanting Justice: $6,000 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FUND INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentHONOR THE EARTH: $6,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $5,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $4,000 · Environment+2 more: $2,000 · EnvironmentEAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT: $56,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $500 · Community ImprovementNAMI St Louis: $18,000 · HealthCraig Hospital Foundation: $14,334 · HealthLGBT LIFE CENTER: $6,000 · HealthTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION: $4,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,333 · Health+2 more: $1,500 · HealthFOODSHED CAPITAL: $8,500 · Food & NutritionFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: $8,000 · Food & NutritionMARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $4,000 · Food & NutritionOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $4,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionYoung Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads: $7,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesPollen 8 Inc: $3,500 · Human ServicesTHE POURHOUSE INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesNORFOLK CASA INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesBAY AREA RESCUE MISSION: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesNEW SONG MISSION INC: $5,500 · EducationDELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $5,500 · EducationHawaii Farmers Union Foundation: $4,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $3,000 · EducationREACH FOUNDATION INC (REACH ENRICHES ALL CHILDREN): $1,500 · EducationFORSYTH SCHOOL INC: $1,500 · Education+1 more: $500 · Education
Other$754,833Environment$70,500Community Improvement$56,500Health$46,167Food & Nutrition$27,500Human Services$22,000Education$21,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT: $56,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS: $55,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI St Louis: $18,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $17,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDRISHTI COMPOST INC: $15,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $14,334 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFOODSHED CAPITAL: $8,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT: $7,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPlanting Justice: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLGBT LIFE CENTER: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWEBSTER GROVES SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHONOR THE EARTH: $6,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEW SONG MISSION INC: $5,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetDELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $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 budgetHawaii Farmers Union Foundation: $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBay Area Lesbian Archives: $4,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPollen 8 Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH SPCA: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAGIC HOUSE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTWP-THE YOUTH MOVEMENT: $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSamaritan House Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,333 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POURHOUSE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNewfields Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,833 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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 EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds NAMI St Louis ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds DRISHTI COMPOST INC ↗
  • Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds FOODSHED CAPITAL ↗
  • Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds ACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads ↗
  • Who funds JUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC ↗

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jerry J Wilson Memorial Foundation Inc co Jennifer Wilson funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jerry J Wilson Memorial Foundation Inc co Jennifer Wilson. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • The University of Tulsa: 5% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 153 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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