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The Wilson 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | $42,000 |
| SKAGIT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| U GIVE - UTAH MEN'S GOLF | $8,000 |
| WASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS | $6,000 |
| BURLINGTON-EDISON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MISSION AT THE WEST JORDAN CARE CENTER | $5,000 |
| OLYMPUS DEV FOUNDATION-REFUGEE SCHOLARSHIP | $5,000 |
| THE OTHER SIDE ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| RISING STAR OUTREACH | $5,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| FOREVER YOUNG FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| ACADEMY FOR CREATING ENTERPRISE | $4,000 |
| THE SHARING PLACE | $2,500 |
| JORDAN VALLEY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL CLINIC | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of The Wilson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in UT; read by stated purpose it is 72% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +90% since the first grant, against +81% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 15 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 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
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
- AFAcademy for Creating Enterprise9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +77%
- RSRising Star Outreach Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +75%
- FYFOREVER YOUNG FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN7× · 2019–2025 · $27k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- CACHARITY ANYWHERE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
- IFINTERMOUNTAIN FOUNDATION - PRIMARY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Five 12 Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 48 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 THE SKAGIT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Academy for Creating Enterprise ↗
- Who funds Rising Star Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds FOREVER YOUNG FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds The Other Side Academy ↗
- Who funds THE SHARING PLACE ↗
- Who funds WASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH DRIVING FOR VALUES ↗
- Who funds ESPECIALLY FOR ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds FIVE 12 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mercury One Inc ↗
- Who funds Elizabeth Smart Foundation ↗
- Who funds Washington Junior Golf Association ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Paul T Walton Jr Charitable Foundation dba PT Walton Jr Foundation · Crewe Endowment Foundation · Semnani Family Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · University Impact · American Endowment Foundation · American Express Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Wilson 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.
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.
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