· 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 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 $10k33 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k58 grants · $929k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| SUBLETTE COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| US FUND FOR UNICEF | $150,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $150,000 |
| ALASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| THE CARTER CENTER | $100,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF ALASKA | $100,000 |
| ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC | $100,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF JACKSON HOLE | $80,000 |
| PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| GIRDWOOD INC | $75,000 |
| TETON LITERACY CENTER | $60,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF WYOMING | $50,000 |
| MERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
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, $783k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% 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.
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.
135 repeat relationships — 104 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches8× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +9%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +132%
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $600k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- NDNC DISASTER RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2024 · $150k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2017 · $80k
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTAone grant, 2017 · $35k
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.
To enhance the health and well-being of the communities we serve.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Alaska Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Dartmouth Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
126 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. 126 of the 168 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SUBLETTE COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Alaska ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PATTERSON SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Alaska Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds TETON LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC OF CALDWELL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF SUBLETTE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St John's Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds CLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PAC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER HOME OF THE FOOTHILLS INC ↗
- Who funds Beans Cafe 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: North Carolina Community Foundation · Bernhardt Furniture Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Broyhill Family Foundation Inc · The Alaska Community Foundation · The Coffey Foundation Inc · Stevens Family Foundation Inc · Rasmuson Foundation · George Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Brooks Foundation · The Cannon Foundation 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.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 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.