North Carolina · 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.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 115
- Grants FY2025
- 110
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 105 to 116
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 20
- Total assets, FY2025
- $22M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The Wilson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 110 | $2.8M | 5% |
| FY2024 | 110 | $2.6M | 5% |
| FY2023 | 109 | $2.5M | 3% |
| FY2022 | 116 | $2.6M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 107 | $2.1M | 3% |
| FY2020 | 105 | $2.0M | 8% |
| FY2019 | 110 | $2.3M | 5% |
| FY2018 | 107 | $2.1M | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $1,110,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $1,050,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Unc Health Foundation Inc | $600,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Carter Center Inc | $575,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Sublette County Health Foundation | $505,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Food Bank of Alaska | $500,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Providence Alaska Foundation | $490,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc | $460,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Paws - Providing Animal Welfare Services | $418,000 | 9 | 10% |
| Patterson School Foundation Inc | $410,000 | 3 | 57% |
Show all 126 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Wilson Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 116 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About The Wilson Family Foundation
- How much does The Wilson Family Foundation give?
- The Wilson Family Foundation reported 115 grants totaling $3,022,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 105 and 116 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Wilson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Education (11%), International (11%).
- Who are The Wilson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($1.1M), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($1.1M), Unc Health Foundation Inc ($600k).
- Does The Wilson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wilson 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 Wilson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include North Carolina Community Foundation, Bernhardt Furniture Foundation, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole.
- Where is The Wilson Family Foundation based?
- The Wilson Family Foundation is based in NC.
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