· Private foundation
Ruth a Wilson Private 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $6,000 |
| GRACE CITY CHURCH OF FLORIDA INC | $6,000 |
| ALICE DRIVE BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY | $2,200 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,864 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +120% since the first grant, against +59% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH9× · 2017–2025 · $88k
- ADALICE DRIVE BAPTIST CHURCH4× · 2022–2025 · $17k
- THTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC5× · 2018–2025 · $11k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- FMFIRST MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $6k
- GSGood Shepherd Hospice Incone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +2%
- LCLAKES CHURCH1ST BAPTIST CH OF LKLDone grant, 2022 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Polk county health services inc improves the wellbeing and quality of life for iowans, primarily focused on individuals with brain health concerns and / or disabilities such as intellectual disability, developmental disability, substance…
Polk vision actively facilitates a process through which polk county achieves its full potential by identifying and building awareness of community priorities impacting quality of life, education, infrastructure, economic development,…
Grow an economy based on high-skill, high-wage sustainable businesses. we focus on business recruitment and expansion, business advocacy, facilitating collaborative partnerships and advancing strategic initiatives in central florida's polk…
Atrium health floyd polk medical center is a 25-bed critical access hospital whose mission is to improve health, elevate hope, and advance healing to the community it serves.
Connected polk is committed to transforming polk county's educational landscape by engaging the business community. connected polk's mission is to enhance high school and post-secondary graduates' preparedness, making polk county a premier…
To serve at any time upon proper request, any mission of mercy, to aid and assist in case of disaster or accident where human life is, has been, or is likely to be endangered, where such is within the ca
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
The floyd-polk healthcare foundation, inc. (the "foundation"), is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of and to carry out the purposes of floyd healthcare management, inc., polk medical center,…
Safety of victims of domestic violence
Bay park community hospital is dedicated to premier service, committed to superior quality, and devoted to our patients and families. our values include: collaboration - working together as a team, internally with employees, physicians,…
The mission is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and scout law.
Hospice of Okeechobee, Inc. provides hospice services that relieve the suffering of persons residing in its communities affected by life-limiting illnesses and end-of-life issues so all may live as fully and comfortably as possible.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WINTER HAVEN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds POLK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITRUS CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF POLK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds POLK SHERIFF'S CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARTOW ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Lillian E Bunker Private Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation · Givewell Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ruth a Wilson Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruth a Wilson Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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