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Josephine and Bernard Wilkinson US Fdn Linda S Kennedy Dalby

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.

$451k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$12M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Josephine and Bernard Wilkinson US Fdn Linda S Kennedy Dalby funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$451k42%
FY20249$270k33%
FY202315$238k53%
FY20228$90k0%
FY202116$170k69%
FY202013$175k92%
FY20196$80k100%
FY20181$30kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$618kAnimals$110kScience & Tech$95kHuman Services$50kHousing & Shelter$40kEducation$37kPhilanthropy$31kEnvironment$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
VA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 20 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($612k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Josephine and Bernard Wilkinson US Fdn Linda S Kennedy Dalby supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSjogren's Foundation Inc: $270,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetThe Asher House: $160,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDana-Farber Inc: $83,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPerkins School for the Blind: $42,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Midcoast Charities Inc: $31,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetClosing the Gap Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetNational Brain Tumor Society Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Oncology Services Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Pad: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAshoka: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetScdrinc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLucy Mackenzie Humane Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKiku Gardens Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Josephine and Bernard Wilkinson US Fdn Linda S Kennedy Dalby

How much does Josephine and Bernard Wilkinson US Fdn Linda S Kennedy Dalby give?
Josephine and Bernard Wilkinson US Fdn Linda S Kennedy Dalby reported 19 grants totaling $451,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Josephine and Bernard Wilkinson US Fdn Linda S Kennedy Dalby fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (59%), Animals (10%), Science & Tech (9%).
Who are Josephine and Bernard Wilkinson US Fdn Linda S Kennedy Dalby's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Sjogren's Foundation Inc ($270k), The Asher House ($160k), Dana-Farber Inc ($84k).
Does Josephine and Bernard Wilkinson US Fdn Linda S Kennedy Dalby fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Josephine and Bernard Wilkinson US Fdn Linda S Kennedy Dalby accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Josephine and Bernard Wilkinson US Fdn Linda S Kennedy Dalby?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Josephine and Bernard Wilkinson US Fdn Linda S Kennedy Dalby based?
Josephine and Bernard Wilkinson US Fdn Linda S Kennedy Dalby is based in MA.

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 49 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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