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The Wilke Family Foundation at a glance

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The Wilke Family Foundation

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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$14MScience & Tech$1.6MArts & Culture$1.4MHealth$1.0MPublic Benefit$585kInternational$543kPhilanthropy$380kHousing & Shelter$310kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $303k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $948k
  • $250k+2 grants · $750k
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CODE ORG$500,000
CHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC$250,000
TEACH FOR ALL INC$166,667
NEO PHILANTHROPY INC$150,000
VILLAGE THEATRE$125,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$100,000
TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$100,000
KH THEATRE LIMITED$56,474
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$50,000
WITH HONOR INSTITUTE$50,000
WOOLLY MAMMOTH THEATRE CO$33,333
PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC$30,000
NARRATIVE MAGAZINE INC$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $582k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JENESSE CENTER INC: $5k → 14%CHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC: $10k → 17%CHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC: $250k → 17%CHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC: $100k → 17%CHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC: $100k → 17%CHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC: $50k → 17%RUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%RUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%GO CAMPAIGN: $4k → 14%RUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%GO CAMPAIGN: $3k → 14%RUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%JOSHUA P WILLIAMS GOLF TOURNAMENT: $15k → 9%STOLENYOUTH: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 41 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
42

Total granted

$18M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+26%

Still filing today

88%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND
    7× · 2017–2023 · $2.3M · revenue +198%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.6M · revenue +35%
  • BO
    BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • UA
    UNITE AND RENEW EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $275k · revenue -91%
  • AI
    AIRBNBORG INC
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -67%
  • The Houston Food Bankgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +36%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
5
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
6
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
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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11
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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12
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington; the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

83 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. 83 of the 92 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/83
Grantees still filing
53/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $2,330,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUNDCODEORG: $1,300,000 · EducationCODEORGBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE: $1,050,000 · EducationBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGEMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $900,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $750,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONTEACH FOR ALL INC: $600,001 · EducationTEACH FOR ALL INCUNITE AND RENEW EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 · Education+11 more: $562,500 · Education+11 moreTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $4,652,089 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $1,050,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION - SEATTLE: $300,000 · OtherNEO Philanthropy Inc: $305,000 · Other+34 more: $1,934,474 · Other+34 moreINSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: $1,600,000 · Science & TechVILLAGE THEATRE: $470,000 · Arts & CultureWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc: $143,332 · Arts & CultureAcademy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation: $125,000 · Arts & CultureBrothers for Life: $100,000 · Arts & CulturePLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $70,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $550,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND NORTH IDAHO: $45,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $30,000 · Health+4 more: $39,000 · HealthCHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC: $510,000 · Human ServicesRUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION: $35,060 · Human Services+5 more: $51,750 · Human ServicesWORLDREADERORG: $425,000 · International+6 more: $31,000 · International
Education$7,767,501Other$8,241,563Science & Tech$1,600,000Arts & Culture$1,008,332Health$664,000Human Services$596,810International$456,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $2,330,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: $1,600,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCODEORG: $1,300,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE: $1,050,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $900,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTEACH FOR ALL INC: $600,001 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $550,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC: $510,000 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetVILLAGE THEATRE: $470,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetWORLDREADERORG: $425,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $305,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITE AND RENEW EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAIRBNBORG INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $210,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNARRATIVE MAGAZINE INC: $200,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc: $143,332 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPACIFIC RESIDENT THEATRE ENSEMBLE: $135,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetAcademy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation: $125,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHarvey Mudd College: $120,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS: $115,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrothers for Life: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGive Black Alliance: $50,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWITH HONOR INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetX PRIZE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND NORTH IDAHO: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION: $35,060 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLE AND BADGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetArtist Trust: $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFARESTART: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLife Support: $20,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRUSSELL WESTBROOK WHY NOT FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNC LAW FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Seattle FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Puget Sound Energy Fo…M J Murdock Charitabl…Glassybaby White Ligh…The Norcliffe Foundat…United Way of King Co…Morgan Stanley Global…California Community …Gates FoundationWillman-Crowley Found…Silicon Valley Commun…
Seattle FoundationWA24.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Glassybaby White Light Fund · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · California Community Foundation · Gates Foundation · Willman-Crowley Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Wilke Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wilke Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Colab Arts Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Wilke Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Wilke Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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