· Private foundation
The Wilson Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $111k
- $250k+1 grant · $800k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Duke University | $800,152 |
| AIDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION (AMFAR) | $60,000 |
| Nasher Sculpture Center | $51,333 |
| Tate Americas Foundation | $43,722 |
| Children's Diabetes Foundation | $25,000 |
| The Tiny Miracles Foundation | $20,000 |
| Southern Methodist University | $13,500 |
| Near and Far Animal Foundation Inc | $10,000 |
| ALLIANCE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION OF ALLIANCE OHIO | $10,000 |
| CHRIST AND HOLY TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $7,000 |
| Judith Center | $5,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR CANADIAN AMERICAN RELATIONS | $5,000 |
| Healthnetwork Foundation | $5,000 |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
DUKE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +51%- TATATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $267k · revenue +157%
- TNTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $169k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- SFSTRIVE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +186%
- WWWonder Works Studioone grant, 2022 · $50k
- SPSt Paul the Apostle Catholic Churchone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
Via art fund is a nonprofit organization where art patrons join forces as partners in a new model of philanthropy to support visionary initiatives in art.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The american federation of arts initiates and organizes a national and international program of art exhibitions, publications, and educational activities to benefit the museum community and enrich the public's experience and understanding…
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Museum of Art and the most unlike its peers is Be Still Media Foundation. 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 57 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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STRIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GAMERS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COUNCIL FOR CANADIAN AMERICAN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Angel Force USA ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION OF ALLIANCE OHIO ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds NEAR AND FAR ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADVISORY BOARD OF BOOKER T WASHINGTON HS FOR PERFORMING & ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CONTEMPORARY ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds Be Still Media Foundation ↗
- Who funds C5 Youth Foundation of Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art 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: The Ford Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving 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 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.