· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +170% since the first grant, against +101% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 27 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 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 ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wilson Family Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wilson Family Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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