· Private foundation
The Willits Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $315
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation | $175,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Palm Beach | $169,000 |
| Gill St Bernard's School | $163,000 |
| Presbyterian Church USA | $135,000 |
| Center For Creative Education | $127,000 |
| Sweet Briar College | $110,000 |
| The Lord's Place | $109,000 |
| Mayo Clinic | $100,000 |
| Hanley Center Foundation | $80,000 |
| Jupiter Medical Center Foundation | $80,000 |
| Cathedral Arts Project Inc | $75,000 |
| Children's Specialized Hospital | $50,000 |
| Scholarship America | $315 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TGTHE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $992k · revenue +12%
- CFCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION7× · 2019–2025 · $600k · revenue +276%
- SBSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE6× · 2020–2025 · $596k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- MAMD Anderson Cancer Centerone grant, 2024 · $140k
- CCCleveland Clinic Foundation fbo Indian River County Medical Centerone grant, 2022 · $88k
- MWMrs Wilson's Halfway Houseone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
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.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALFRE INC DBA MRS WILSONS HALFWAY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HANLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIENA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Willits Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Willits Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
- Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc: 10% of income from government
- Center for Creative Education: 2% of income from government
- Cathedral Arts Project Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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