· Private foundation
The Wilson Family Private Foundation
Its FY2020 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 FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k5 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BESSEMER CITY HIGH SCHOOL | $15,400 |
| ST MARGARET MARY ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH MEN'S CLUB | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,750 |
| ROCK SPRINGS ELEMENTARY | $2,000 |
| ROCK SPRINGS ELEMENTARY PTO | $500 |
| HOLBROOK MIDDLE SCHOOL | $300 |
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 (FY18–18, $450) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +170% since the first grant, against +73% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- RSROCK SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO INC4× · 2017–2020 · $24k · revenue +183%
- TWTED WILLIAMS MUSEUM AND HITTERS HALL OF FAME INC3× · 2017–2019 · $21k · revenue +78%
- NCNorth Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $11k · revenue +170%
Funded once
- EBEMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $14k
- LCLAST CHANCE MINISTRIESone grant, 2019 · $11k
- PPPIEDMONT PIRATES LITTLE LEAGUEone grant, 2018 · $8k
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.
Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and release injured, orphaned and ill local wildlife. we focus on wildlife conservation education so that people and animals can live in productive harmony.
The organization exists to rescue and rehab raptor birds in and around Raleigh, North Carolina and educate the public about them.
Protect the wolf in the wild through education and exposure.
The Catawba Valley Wildlife Club is a conservation organization where the primary goal is to conserve our natural resources. We offer educational programs to the general public in order to raise public safety. Facilities are open to NC…
The mission of the Friends of the GDSNWR Organization is to promote a better understanding and appreciation for the natural environment of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge by enhancing public awareness and interest and by…
To conserve, protect, enhance, and support the fisheries, wildlife, and habitat resources of nc; increase and maintain access to the resources for all outdoorenthusiasts, sportspersons, conservationists, biologists, and scientificpartners,…
Endangered animal rescue and adoption
Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy inspires, motivates, and engages people to protect, preserve, and restore wildlife habitat in Loudoun County, Virginia.We accomplish our mission through our advocacy, education, citizen science, and habitat…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ted Williams Museum and Hitters Hall of Fame Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 27 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 Lake Norman Wildlife Conservationists ↗
- Who funds ROCK SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO INC ↗
- Who funds TED WILLIAMS MUSEUM AND HITTERS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds North Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Mooresville Artist Guild ↗
- Who funds Carolina Raptor Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEDS FOR KIDS 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: Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Private 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.