· Private foundation
The Wilkens 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k11 grants · $273k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+1 grant · $308k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDING AMERICA | $307,783 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $219,690 |
| THE AMERICAN RED CROSS | $166,278 |
| NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND SALVATION ARMY | $161,883 |
| SPECTRUM INC | $104,873 |
| JENNA'S PROMISE | $100,000 |
| YWCA OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $89,845 |
| PALM BEACH COUNTY LITERACY COALITION INC | $89,845 |
| LORDS PLACE INC | $89,844 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC | $89,844 |
| TRANSITIONS PROJECTS OF PORTLAND OREGON | $69,335 |
| RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND | $69,335 |
| THE FRIENDLY HOUSE | $69,335 |
| LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER | $65,000 |
| NORTHWEST FAMILY SERVICES | $64,001 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Feeding America8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +84%- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches8× · 2017–2024 · $924k · revenue +46%
- SYSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $614k · revenue +128%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $21k
- LCLAMOILLE COMMUNITY HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +327%
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.
See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…
To provide accessible barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty and to advocate for solutions to those problems.
Elevate's mission is to promote safety, competence, and confidence as youth create their path through adolescence and into adulthood.elevate provides a wide range of innovative and effective programs that empower and enrich the lives of…
The women's resource center empowers survivors by providing trauma-informed services with equity and compassion while working collaboratively with the community to eliminate the root causes of interpersonal abuse.
New hope engages survivors, stakeholders and communities to build an anti-violence movement. using a trauma-informed practice, we work with those impacted by sexual and domestic violence, as well as those persons who use abuse in their…
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
Safety, empowerment, and social change for victims of domestic violence and their families. to that end we offer a full compendium of services for victims of domestic violence.
To deliver quality and compassionate behavioral health services to individuals and families all the time through a trauma informed care philosophy and approach.
To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Raphael House of Portland and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 33 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 Feeding America ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF PALM BEACH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Literacy Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds LAMOILLE RESTORATIVE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE ON HAVEN HILL INC ↗
- Who funds Jenna Tatro Memorial Fund ↗
- Who funds LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL VERMONT RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE HAVEN CIC ↗
- Who funds Lund Family Center Inc ↗
- Who funds YAMHILL COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds JULIETTE'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BREAST FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds TUALITY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Dismas of Vermont Inc ↗
- Who funds LAMOILLE COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
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 Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Louise Judith and Edgar May Foundation · Oakland Foundation Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Windham Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · The Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Wilkens 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lamoille Community House Inc — 100% of income from government
- Capstone Community Action Inc — 84% of income from government
- Ywca of Palm Beach County — 72% of income from government
- North Central Vermont Recovery Center Inc — 69% of income from government
- Yamhill Community Action Partnership — 61% of income from government
- Lamoille Restorative Center Inc — 58% of income from government
- Dismas of Vermont Inc — 39% of income from government
- Lamoille Family Center Inc — 36% of income from government
- Northwest Family Services — 35% of income from government
- Lund Family Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Tuality Healthcare Foundation — 3% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc — 0% 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.