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Rommel Wilson Memorial Fund Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $251k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEALING THE CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| CAROLINE CHURCH | $41,412 |
| ALS RIDE FOR LIFE | $35,000 |
| ST MARYS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $30,000 |
| CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $30,000 |
| MARY'S HOME OF THE TREASURE COAST | $25,000 |
| EAST END ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| ST MARYS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| FLUSHING CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| HOPE ACADEMY OF THE BRONX | $15,000 |
| MARTIN COUNTY HEALTHY START COALITION | $10,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL | $4,500 |
| PORT JEFFERSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $4,100 |
| REV FATHER CASEY JONES ORDINATION MINISTRY | $1,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 30% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AFALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN6× · 2020–2025 · $320k · revenue +55%
- TSTHE STONY BROOK SCHOOL5× · 2019–2024 · $165k · revenue +51%
- RFRIDE FOR LIFE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- MLMOUNTAIN LAKE CHILDREN'S RESIDENCE INC3× · 2021–2023 · $90k · revenue +19%
- LCLOUDONVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL3× · 2021–2023 · $28k
- EEEAST END ARTSone grant, 2023 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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 Vincent Smith School is a co-ed, independent, special education school for grades ones through twelve, serving Nassau, Suffolk, and New York City students. The School specializes in students with various learning issues.
To provide high-school age youth with an academically challenging learning environment that prepares them to communicate effectively, think and reason critically, value diversity, engage in service learning, pursue academic excellence,…
It is the mission of the harbor science and arts charter school to provide students with a high quality education through a rigorous academic program that infuses character building, physical wellness and the arts. students will graduate…
The harley school is a diverse, inclusive school. we provide a balanced education that prepares our students to meet the challenges of tomorrow and lead lives of great purpose.
Educational institution for special needs children between the ages of 5 & 21. these children are educationally, emotionally, & physically and multiply disabled. the children receive individual instruction & therapies for remediation.
A private school providing an exceptional college preparatory program with a specialty in learning disabilities.
To provide a program for children with special needs, ages three to five years by utilizing the disciplines of psychology, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy as integral functions of the educational program.
Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…
New hampton school cultivates lifelong learners who will serve as active global citizens. new hampton school promotes literature, science & useful arts education to students in grades 9 through post-graduate.
Founded to educate and inspire gifted and precocious learners who require special social, emotional, executive function and academic supports to realize their high potential, in the greater new york city area, for students grades 1 through…
Through rigorous curriculum, individualized supports, and positive character development, primary hall preparatory charter school (phpcs) ensures all students in kindergarden through fifth grade are prepared for academic and personal…
Private school education from eight weeks through eighth grade dedicated to nurturing the whole child through intentional academic guidance, purposeful learning environments, and peace minded community support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alternatives for Children and the most unlike its peers is Three Village Historical Society. 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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
14 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. 14 of the 49 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 ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE STONY BROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RIDE FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN LAKE CHILDREN'S RESIDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER ISLAND AMBULANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Ministry for Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds East End Arts & Humanities Council ↗
- Who funds FLUSHING CHRISTIAN DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MARTIN COUNTY HEALTHY START COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Three Village Historical Society ↗
- Who funds SOUND JUSTICE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOUR FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN LI I ↗
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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Rommel Wilson Memorial Fund 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.
- The Franklin Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
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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