How much does The Wilkens Family Foundation give?

The Wilkens Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $2,196,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Wilkens Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (31%), Food & Nutrition (13%), Health (12%).

Who are The Wilkens Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Feeding America ($1.3M), Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation ($933k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($924k).

Does The Wilkens Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Wilkens Family Foundation 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 Wilkens Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc, Louise Judith and Edgar May Foundation.

Where is The Wilkens Family Foundation based?

The Wilkens Family Foundation is based in VT.

The Wilkens Family Foundation

The Wilkens Family Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$2.2M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$308k

Largest

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.

Human Services$3.7MFood & Nutrition$1.5MHealth$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.3MEducation$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$945kInternational$933kCrime & Legal$501kOther$0

02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k11 grants · $273k
$50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
$250k+1 grant · $308k

$64,001

Median grant

States reached

$38M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC	$89,844
LORDS PLACE INC	$89,844
THE FRIENDLY HOUSE	$69,335
TRANSITIONS PROJECTS OF PORTLAND OREGON	$69,335
RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND	$69,335
LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER	$65,000
NORTHWEST FAMILY SERVICES	$64,001

02The need

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, $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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$12M · 31 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$12M

$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

+327%

Still filing today

90%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionCrime & LegalEducationOther

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

Feeding America
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +84%
AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
8× · 2017–2024 · $924k · revenue +46%
SY
SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $614k · revenue +150%

Funded once

TS
THE SALVATION ARMY
one grant, 2020 · $21k
LC
LAMOILLE COMMUNITY HOUSE INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +327%

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.

Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery

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…

Health

The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

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.

Human Services

House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

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Safehouse Denver Inc

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,…

Human Services

Preble Street

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.

Human Services

Elevate Youth Services Inc

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…

Human Services

Womens Resource Center of Newport and Bristol Counties

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.

Human Services

New Hope Inc

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…

Human Services

Women Against Abuse Inc

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…

Human Services

Hubbard House Inc

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.

Human Services

Preferred Behavioral Health of Nj Inc

To deliver quality and compassionate behavioral health services to individuals and families all the time through a trauma informed care philosophy and approach.

Health

Umom New Day Centers Inc

To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.

Housing & Shelter

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Raphael House of Portland; 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.

04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 33 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/29

Grantees still filing

23/29

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$3,462,777Other$3,067,394Health$1,857,390Food & Nutrition$1,542,414Housing & Shelter$847,953Education$535,053Crime & Legal$500,804Philanthropy$88,282

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

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.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

6rely on government for over half their income

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home