New York · Private foundation
The Hw Wilson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 83
- Grants FY2025
- 75
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $115,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 67 to 78
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $33M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The Hw Wilson Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $277k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 83 | $1.4M | 30% |
| FY2024 | 75 | $1.2M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 75 | $1.0M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 67 | $1.0M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 70 | $1.1M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 71 | $1.1M | 35% |
| FY2019 | 78 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St John's University New York | $550,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Millbrook School | $365,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Fairfield University | $350,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Long Island Cares Inc | $275,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Ursuline School of New Rochelle | $200,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Pal-O-Mine Equestrian Inc | $173,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Bronx Children's Museum | $150,000 | 7 | 2% |
| St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Brooklyn Arts Council Inc | $135,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union | $110,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 102 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 97 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Hw Wilson Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 79 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Frank J Antun Foundation · The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Select Equity Group Foundation · Rose M Badgeley Charitable Trust 10-214890 · The New York Community Trust · Mutual of America Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · James J McCann Charitable Trust · Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLP · Pinkerton Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Hw Wilson Foundation Inc
- How much does The Hw Wilson Foundation Inc give?
- The Hw Wilson Foundation Inc reported 83 grants totaling $1,438,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 67 and 78 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Hw Wilson Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Arts & Culture (15%), Health (9%).
- Who are The Hw Wilson Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: St John's University New York ($550k), Millbrook School ($365k), Fairfield University ($350k).
- Does The Hw Wilson Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hw Wilson Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hw Wilson Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Frank J Antun Foundation, The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation, The Hyde and Watson Foundation.
- Where is The Hw Wilson Foundation Inc based?
- The Hw Wilson Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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