· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| RISING STAR OUTREACH | $5,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| OLYMPUS DEV FOUNDATION-REFUGEE SCHOLARSHIP | $5,000 |
| THE OTHER SIDE ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| MISSION AT THE WEST JORDAN CARE CENTER | $5,000 |
| ACADEMY FOR CREATING ENTERPRISE | $4,000 |
| FOREVER YOUNG FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| THE SHARING PLACE | $2,500 |
| JORDAN VALLEY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| UNITED WE PLEDGE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of The Wilson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in UT; by stated purpose, 72%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +90% since the first grant, against +83% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- RSRISE SERVICESone grant, 2018 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
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How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 48 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 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 IMAGE REBORN INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wilson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wilson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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