New York · Private foundation
The Robert W Wilson Charitable Trust
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.
- $34M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 78
- Grants FY2025
- 80
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $9,342,423
- Organizations funded a year
- 61 to 80
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $153M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations The Robert W Wilson Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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 | 76 | $25M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 80 | $17M | 35% |
| FY2023 | 75 | $9.2M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $11M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 76 | $15M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 64 | $16M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Monuments Fund Inc | $17,833,184 | 6 | 21% |
| The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations | $12,569,750 | 6 | 1% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $10,385,098 | 6 | 1% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $7,390,587 | 6 | 2% |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | $6,407,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation | $6,124,425 | 5 | 7% |
| Shelburne Farms | $5,270,000 | 3 | 42% |
| Vera Institute of Justice Inc | $3,800,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Drug Policy Alliance | $3,600,000 | 6 | 6% |
| National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States | $2,439,281 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 118 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Robert W Wilson Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 112 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Select Equity Group Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Tannen Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About The Robert W Wilson Charitable Trust
- How much does The Robert W Wilson Charitable Trust give?
- The Robert W Wilson Charitable Trust reported 78 grants totaling $34,420,221 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 61 and 80 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Robert W Wilson Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (36%), Arts & Culture (25%), Education (15%).
- Who are The Robert W Wilson Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: World Monuments Fund Inc ($18M), The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ($13M), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($10M).
- Does The Robert W Wilson Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Robert W Wilson Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Robert W Wilson Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The New York Community Trust, Select Equity Group Foundation.
- Where is The Robert W Wilson Charitable Trust based?
- The Robert W Wilson Charitable Trust is based in NY.
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