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The Robert W Wilson Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26M
Granted FY2024still arriving
82
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$8.7M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Environment$31MArts & Culture$22MEducation$13MAnimals$7.4MRecreation & Sports$4.8MHealth$3.3MCrime & Legal$1.9MSocial Science$1.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $131k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $505k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $579k
  • $250k+13 grants · $25M
$10,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$182M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATURE CONSERVANCY$8,655,718
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND$4,919,558
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$2,600,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$1,819,484
VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE$1,575,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA$1,250,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$1,100,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,044,750
DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE$600,000
MASS MOCA$550,000
54 BELOW INC$335,001
AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY$280,000
ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$250,000
HASTINGS CENTER$135,000
ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE$125,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $282k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $5k → 6%THE HONEYCOMB PROJECT: $10k → 14%MIND THE GAP: $10k → 7%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $5k → 6%THE HONEYCOMB PROJECT: $7k → 14%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $5k → 6%HOUR CHILDREN: $10k → 13%HOUR CHILDREN: $10k → 13%HOUR CHIDLREN: $10k → 13%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $25k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $25k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $25k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $15k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $15k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $15k → 17%CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $15k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $15k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $25k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $25k → 17%LUV MICHAEL: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$65M · 81 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

81 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
40

Total granted

$65M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+7%

Still filing today

74%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

  • WM
    WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $13M · revenue +159%
  • TN
    The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations
    5× · 2020–2024 · $12M · revenue +55%
  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Society
    4× · 2020–2023 · $6.4M · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • MM
    MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (MASS MOCA)
    one grant, 2020 · $650k
  • BA
    BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC
    one grant, 2020 · $600k · revenue +1%
  • JE
    JBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION LIMITED
    one grant, 2021 · $384k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
11
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
12
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mind the Gap. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Arts CentersJewish Community Organizati…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Health Access Advocacy and …Youth Sports ProgramsCancer Support ServicesChristian Youth CampsDance Arts OrganizationsCommunity Food PantriesIndependent K-12 SchoolsChristian Missionary Organi…Food Banks and PantriesLocal Food System Organizat…Community FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Public Library Operations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%2%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%79%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/110
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,650

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.

04the grantee network

109 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. 109 of the 153 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
108/109
Grantees still filing
65/109
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $18,901,718 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYMETROPOLITAN OPERA — $2,225,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERAJBS EDUCATION LTD CO UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE — $1,193,702 · OtherVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC — $1,725,000 · OtherVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC+86 more — $6,321,336 · Other+86 moreWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC — $12,971,002 · Arts & CultureWORLD MONUMENTS FUND I…NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $2,121,781 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TRUST FOR HIS…WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $1,833,334 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMER…+16 more — $837,501 · Arts & CultureThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $12,044,750 · EducationThe New York Publ…MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC — $550,000 · Education+11 more — $847,425 · Education+11 moreENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $5,466,357 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL …BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION — $4,500,000 · EnvironmentBROOKLYN BOTAN…THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $725,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS…+12 more — $603,000 · Environment+12 moreWildlife Conservation Society — $6,375,000 · AnimalsWildlife …American Bird Conservancy — $895,750 · AnimalsAmerican …+1 more — $2,500 · AnimalsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $4,790,587 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE — $3,000,000 · Health+10 more — $121,000 · Health
Other$30,366,756Arts & Culture$17,763,618Education$13,442,175Environment$11,294,357Animals$7,273,250Recreation & Sports$4,795,587Health$3,121,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $18,901,718 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC — $12,971,002 over 5y, 21% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $12,044,750 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $6,375,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $5,466,357 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $4,790,587 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION — $4,500,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE — $3,000,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $2,121,781 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $1,833,334 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC — $1,725,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy — $895,750 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetThe Hastings Center Inc — $867,500 over 5y, 10% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $725,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC — $600,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC — $550,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetREFED INC — $500,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budget54 BELOW INC — $345,001 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS — $270,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $125,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC — $125,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBOTTOMLESS CLOSET — $125,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $118,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCIVIC AND CULTURAL RESTORATION CORPORATION — $105,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL — $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM — $90,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY — $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF LACHAT INC — $52,500 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Childrens Academy — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetConnections Education Center of the Palm Beaches Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMUSICIANS ON CALL INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNew York University — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOUR CHILDREN INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc — $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of the Norwalk River Valley Trail Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…Select Equity Group F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Tannen Family Foundat…The Ayco Charitable F…The Hyde and Watson F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Ibm International Fou…National Philanthropi…The Chicago Community…The Bessemer Giving F…
Jewish Communal FundNY17.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Robert W Wilson Charitable Trust 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Robert W Wilson Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Robert W Wilson Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 153 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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