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Marie C and Joseph C Wilson Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0162% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Human Services$1.2MCrime & Legal$524kHealth$415kCommunity Improvement$260kEducation$201kPublic Benefit$135kArts & Culture$96kHousing & Shelter$68kPhilanthropy$50kOther$1.8M
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k18 grants · $560k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $545k
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONNECTED COMMUNITIES$100,005
EMPIRE JUSTICE CENTER$80,005
HOPE585$80,000
COMMONGROUND HEALTH$65,000
Individual grant recipient$60,050
HOUSE OF MERCY$60,000
PERSON CENTERED HOUSING$50,000
YWCA OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY$50,000
THE CHILDREN'S AGENDA$45,000
PUBLIC POLICY & EDUCATION FUND OF$45,000
BREATHEDEEP INC$45,000
CONNECTED COMMUNITIES$40,000
COORDINATED CARE SERVICES$40,000
THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF$40,000
JUST CAUSE$35,000
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 (FY20–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%REACH ADVOCACY: $25k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S AGENDA: $45k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $40k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S AGENDA: $45k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S AGENDA: $45k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S AGENDA: $35k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH: $25k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S AGENDA: $30k → 14%GOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES: $25k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S AGENDA: $1k → 14%HOUSE OF MERCY: $60k → 14%HOUSE OF MERCY: $60k → 14%IBERO-AMERICAN ACTION LEAGUE: $50k → 14%HOUSE OF MERCY: $36k → 14%HOUSE OF MERCY: $35k → 14%HOUSE OF MERCY: $35k → 14%WILSON COMMENCEMENT PARK: $15k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY: $12k → 14%ISAIAH HOUSE INC: $3k → 14%PARTNERS IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $30k → 14%PARTNERS IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $25k → 14%PARTNERS IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $25k → 14%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $25k → 14%PARTNERS IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $25k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE: $30k → 14%REFUGEES HELPING REFUGEES: $30k → 14%ROCHESTER AREAINTERFAITHHOSPITALITY: $10k → 14%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $10k → 14%HOPE585: $80k → 14%THE HUB585 INC: $80k → 14%YWCA OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY: $50k → 14%YWCA OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY: $50k → 14%YWCA OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY: $50k → 14%THE HUB585 INC: $40k → 14%WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $10k → 14%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.

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 28 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
47

Total granted

$3.3M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+4%

Still filing today

75%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $330k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

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

  • CONNECTED COMMUNITIES INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $260k · revenue +97%
  • HOUSE OF MERCY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $226k · revenue +135%
  • FL
    FINGER LAKES HEALTH SYSTEMS AGENCY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $215k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • PI
    PCHO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $65k
  • FL
    FINGER LAKES HEALTH SYSTEM AGENCY
    one grant, 2021 · $60k
  • JC
    JUST CAUSE - JUSTICE FOR ALL RIGHT
    one grant, 2021 · $60k

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
RochesterMonroe County Homeless Continuum of Care Inc

The Rochester/Monroe County Homeless Continuum of Care (CoC) is a collaborative partnership which provides leadership, linkages, education, and guidance to eliminate homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
2
Neighborhood Housing Services of Rochester Inc

NeighborWorks Rochester collaborates with people and partners to strengthen, sustain and promote city neighborhoods. Our services are available to a wide spectrum of the community, including existing and potential homeowners, tenants and…

Housing & Shelter
3
Rochester Management Inc

To provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.

Housing & Shelter
4
Rochester Regional Health

The organization is organized and operated for the benefit of all of the affiliates within rochester regional health system. the organization supports and assists the affiliates by reviewing and monitoring their missions, objectives,…

Health
5
The Rochester General Hospital

To establish, erect and maintain a general hospital and dispensary in the county of monroe, ny for medical and surgical aid, care and treatment of persons in need thereof; to carry on and conduct a training school for nurses; to promote…

Health
6
Gouverneur Hospital

Our mission is to provide skilled, compassionate, cost-effective care that promotes wellness and meets the community's healthcare needs.

Health
7
Rochester Hope Inc

Rochester hope, inc. (the organization) is a not-for-profit that was born in october 2022 to bring caring hands to the heart of rochester, new york. the organization operates a free pantry with food, personal care items, diapers, baby food…

Community Improvement
8
Compeer Rochester Inc

Through supportive friendships, enhance the wellness of those with social and emotional barriers.

Health
9
Greater Rochester Housing Partnership Inc

Greater rochester housing partnership, inc. (grhp) was established primarily to provide financing for affordable housing to social services and housing agencies, either directly or by participating with banks, in the rochester, new york…

Housing & Shelter
10
Rochester General Health System

Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.

Health
11
Housing Options Made Easy

We support people with mental health concerns to improve wellness and live independently with dignity, in the community of their choice, through peer-driven services.

Health
12
Rochester Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Inc

To provide the best opportunities for a bright future by repectfully partnering with children and their families, advocating for their health, well-being and safety, and working to heal and strengthen relationships.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency and the most unlike its peers is Start School Later Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number14%2%<5yr12%11%5–10yr17%16%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr25%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value14%1%<5yr12%15%5–10yr17%15%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr25%11%55yr+

The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/46
the rest of the field
8%
334/4,347

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

44 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. 44 of the 84 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/44
Grantees still filing
26/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COORDINATED CARE SERVICES INC — $145,306 · OtherCOORDINATED CARE SERVICES INCROCHESTER-MONROE CNTY ANTI-POVERTY — $100,000 · OtherUNIV OF ROCHESTERMT HOPE FAMILYCTR — $100,000 · OtherROCHESTER REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT SVCS — $95,000 · OtherST JOSEPHS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $85,000 · OtherYWCA OF ROCHESTER MONROE COUNTY — $79,990 · OtherDISABILITY RIGHTS IN NEW YORK — $70,000 · OtherCity Roots Community Land Trust Inc — $67,805 · OtherPCHO INC — $65,000 · Other+45 more — $1,130,717 · Other+45 moreHOUSE OF MERCY INC — $226,000 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF MERCY INCThe Children's Agenda Inc — $201,000 · Human ServicesThe Children's Agenda IncHope585 Inc — $200,000 · Human ServicesHope585 IncYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCHESTER AND MONROE COUNTY — $150,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSO…PARTNERS IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $105,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS IN COMMUNITY DEVELO…The Center for Youth Services Inc — $65,005 · Human ServicesThe Center for Youth Service…IBERO-AMERICAN ACTION LEAGUE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesFamily Promise of Greater Rochester Inc — $45,000 · Human Services+8 more — $149,805 · Human Services+8 moreVOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC — $156,000 · Crime & LegalVOLUNTEER LE…JUDICIAL PROCESS COMMISSION INC — $110,000 · Crime & LegalJUDICIAL PRO…THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER — $90,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CHILD AD…SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC — $88,000 · Crime & LegalSPIRITUS CHR…EMPIRE JUSTICE CENTER — $80,005 · Crime & LegalEMPIRE JUSTI…FINGER LAKES HEALTH SYSTEMS AGENCY — $215,000 · HealthFINGER LAK…BREATHEDEEP INC — $155,000 · HealthBREATHEDEE…THE UNITY HOSPITAL OF ROCHESTER — $35,000 · HealthTHE UNITY …+1 more — $10,000 · HealthCONNECTED COMMUNITIES INC — $260,010 · Community ImprovementEDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $100,000 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationPUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC — $135,000 · Public Benefit
Other$1,938,818Human Services$1,191,810Crime & Legal$524,005Health$415,000Community Improvement$260,010Education$201,000Public Benefit$135,000

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 budgetCONNECTED COMMUNITIES INC — $260,010 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetHOUSE OF MERCY INC — $226,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetFINGER LAKES HEALTH SYSTEMS AGENCY — $215,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetThe Children's Agenda Inc — $201,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetHope585 Inc — $200,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC — $156,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetBREATHEDEEP INC — $155,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCHESTER AND MONROE COUNTY — $150,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCOORDINATED CARE SERVICES INC — $145,306 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC — $135,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJUDICIAL PROCESS COMMISSION INC — $110,000 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetPARTNERS IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $105,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetEDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER — $90,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC — $88,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetEMPIRE JUSTICE CENTER — $80,005 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCity Roots Community Land Trust Inc — $67,805 over 3y, 15% of budgetThe Center for Youth Services Inc — $65,005 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMary's Place Outreach Inc — $56,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIBERO-AMERICAN ACTION LEAGUE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPERSON CENTERED HOUSING OPTIONS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFamily Promise of Greater Rochester Inc — $45,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budget540WMAIN INC — $40,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE UNITY HOSPITAL OF ROCHESTER — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEES HELPING REFUGEES INC — $30,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetGOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESOLVE OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTHE MARGARET HOME INC — $17,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetWilson Commencement Park — $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVILLA OF HOPE — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUR MEDICINE HOME CARE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDIMITRI HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetVeterans Outreach Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGeneration Two Creating Intergenerational Friendships Inc — $9,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetIsaiah House Inc — $2,800 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMK Gandhi Institute For Nonviolence — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTART SCHOOL LATER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO — $250 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.

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.

Esl Charitable Founda…Greater Rochester Hea…Max and Marian Farash…Rochester Area Commun…United Way of Greater…Paychex Charitable Fo…Daisy Marquis Jones F…William & Sheila Kona…Rochester Female Char…Mother Cabrini Health…Charles J & Burton S …Rochester Area Commun…
Esl Charitable FoundationNY81× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Esl Charitable Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Rochester Female Charitable Society · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository 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 Marie C and Joseph C Wilson 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 84 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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