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RI & SL Wilson Foundation
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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $457k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The State Univ of Iowa Foundation aka Univ of Iowa Center for Advancement | $150,000 |
| Friends of Wildlife Prarie Park | $57,269 |
| Midwest Food Bank | $50,000 |
| South Side Mission of Peoria | $50,000 |
| Pathway Ministries | $50,000 |
| Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country | $50,000 |
| Dream Center Peoria NFP | $50,000 |
| My Sisters House | $10,000 |
| Tremont Area Food Pantry Inc NFP | $10,000 |
| One Love Community Fridge River Side Church Peoria | $10,000 |
| Tazewell Animal Protective Society (TAPS) | $10,000 |
| Solid Rock Christian Academy of Morton | $10,000 |
| Grafelman Farms Rescue | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises
Financial planning ministry, inc. (fpm) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to assisting in the performance of the functions of christian churches by serving their financial needs.
To serve communities in west central illinois by providing christian retreat facilities and camp programs that encourage spiritual growth.
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
To be an advocate of agriculture through leadership and education.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
Providing food to needy families in the illinois valley area.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Building iowa's values by recognizing and responding to significantchanges in iowa - those that fundamentally affect families and communities.
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
Work to improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midwest Food Bank Nfp and the most unlike its peers is Grafelman Farms Rescue Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WILDLIFE PRAIRIE PARK ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MY SISTERS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SOLID ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF MORTON ↗
- Who funds GRAFELMAN FARMS RESCUE NFP ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The US Charitable Gift Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 RI & SL Wilson Foundation 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.
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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