· Private foundation
The Wilcox Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k43 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND | $12,000 |
| Martin Luther King Center | $10,000 |
| Community Housing Resource Board | $7,000 |
| Turning Around Ministries Inc | $7,000 |
| EDGEWOOD UNITED CHURCH | $6,000 |
| Newport String Project | $5,000 |
| Salvation Army | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Newport Performing Arts Center | $4,000 |
| POTTER LEAGUE | $3,000 |
| trans lifeline | $3,000 |
| WRNI | $3,000 |
| Salus Center | $3,000 |
| Moses Brown School Development | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against -79% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- NRNEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM6× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +185%
- TATURNING AROUND MINISTRIES INC TURNING AROUND MINISTRIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +82%
- NSNEWPORT STRING PROJECT6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +220%
Funded once
- SMST MATTHEW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SFSEE FORWARD UKRAINE INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -79%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
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 nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…
New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Promoting a more equitable, economically vibrant, and environmentally sustainable food system in rhode island.
United way's mission is uniting our community and resources to build racial equity and opportunities for all rhode islanders.
Cei integrates financing, small business and industry expertise, and policy solutions to grow a vibrant future for people and communities in maine and rural regions.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
Next River is an institute for practicing the future. We cultivate the research, narratives, practices, and connections that transform our cultural landscape toward collective liberation.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Newport String Project. 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.
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 25 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 63 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 NEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING AROUND MINISTRIES INC TURNING AROUND MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT STRING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAEL'S COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ONE LOVE GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING RESOURCE BOARD OF NEWPORT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT CONTEMPORARY BALLET ↗
- Who funds SALUS CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF LANSING ↗
- Who funds RE-MEMBER ↗
- Who funds GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds INGHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NINEVAH FOUNDATION DBA FARM AND WILDERNESS CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBUILD GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds AQUIDNECK COMMUNITY TABLE ↗
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 Rhode Island Community Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Bazarsky Family Foundation · The de Ramel Foundation · Newportfed Charitable Foundation · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · The Champlin Foundation · Larry and Anne Glenn Foundation Inc · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · The Kresge 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 The Wilcox Family Foundation 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.
- Youthbuild Global Inc — 69% 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.