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Ken & Deborah Wilson Foundation Inc

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.

$2k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$1,170
Largest grant, FY2023
$1,170
Organizations funded a year
2 to 38
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Ken & Deborah Wilson Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
InternationalHealthEducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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
FY20232$2k50%
FY202227$16k44%
FY202118$15k39%
FY202038$16kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Environment$18kYouth Development$6kArts & Culture$4kHousing & Shelter$4kPhilanthropy$4kRecreation & Sports$3kReligion$3kEducation$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ken & Deborah Wilson Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBlue Ridge Parkway Foundation: $13,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 414 Daniel Boone Council: $5,670 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHaywood Waterways Association Inc: $2,750 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHaywood County Arts Council Inc: $2,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWestern Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWestern N Carolina Public Radio: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHaywood Health Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHaywood Christian Ministry Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Haywood County Library: $1,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetHaywood County Schools Foundation: $950 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWilderness Trail Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCatman2 Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAdventure Cycling Association: $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHaywood Community College Found: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHaywood Pathways Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetReach of Haywood County Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEach Initiative Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of South Dakota Public Broadcasting: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carter Center Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Door Ministries of High Point Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Projects Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeline Urgent Rescue of Western North Carolina Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetManna Food Bank Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 28.

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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.

The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina IncNC33.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The John C Harmon Family Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Dogwood Health Trust · East Tennessee Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Colquitt Foundation · Gradison Foundation · Pisgah Health Foundation · United Way of Haywood County Inc · Haywood Health Foundation Inc

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 Ken & Deborah Wilson Foundation Inc

How much does Ken & Deborah Wilson Foundation Inc give?
Ken & Deborah Wilson Foundation Inc reported 2 grants totaling $2,170 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Ken & Deborah Wilson Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Environment (36%), Youth Development (11%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are Ken & Deborah Wilson Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation ($13k), Boy Scouts of America 414 Daniel Boone Council ($6k), Haywood Waterways Association Inc ($3k).
Does Ken & Deborah Wilson Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ken & Deborah Wilson Foundation Inc 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 Ken & Deborah Wilson Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation, The John C Harmon Family Foundation.
Where is Ken & Deborah Wilson Foundation Inc based?
Ken & Deborah Wilson Foundation Inc is based in NC.

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 59 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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