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The Wilson Foundationinc

THE MISSION IS TO OFFER STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS OF ALL AGES THE OPPORTUNITY TO APPLY FOR FUNDS TO HELP OFFSET EXPENSES NEEDED FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, WHETHER IN THE FORM OF TUITION OR EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES SUCH AS EDUCATION TRAVEL PRGRAMS, CAMPS AND COLLEGE CLASSES Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations…

$178k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
32
Grants FY2026
18
Organizations funded FY2025
83%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$11,277
Organizations funded a year
1 to 18
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
13
Total assets, FY2026
$2.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 83% of the organizations The Wilson Foundationinc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving31$167k61%
FY202518$116k83%
FY202412$116k67%
FY20237$70k43%
FY202210$108k80%
FY20213$30k100%
FY20201$7k100%
FY20192$13k100%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$451kEnvironment$20kHealth$18kHousing & Shelter$8kYouth Development$1k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
NY
MA
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
DE
TN
NC
SC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 39 grantees
All grantees of The Wilson Foundationinc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Craig School$44,65040%
Seton Hall University$40,00020%
Clemson University$30,7644n/a
The College of Wooster$24,50020%
Trustees of Boston College$21,00030%
Fairfield University$20,00020%
Kitchen Garden Project Inc Garden-Raised Bounty$20,00021%
LG Academy a NJ Nonprofit Corporation$19,00022%
Sacred Heart University Incorporated$18,00020%
Berklee College of Music Inc$17,00020%
Villanova University$16,00020%
The Farm School$14,4002n/a
President and Fellows of Middlebury College$13,31020%
Arcadia University$10,0001n/a
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$10,0001n/a
Far Hills Country Day School$10,00010%
The Praxis Project Inc$10,00010%
Drew University$10,0001n/a
Pennsylvania State University$10,0001n/a
Cornerstone Family Programs$10,0001n/a
University of Florida$10,0001n/a
Boonton High School Home & School Association Inc$9,0001n/a
Seattle University$8,7231n/a
Rutgers the State University$8,5001n/a
Syracuse University$8,0001n/a
Moravian University$7,50010%
Santina Dibenedetto$7,5001n/a
Sound Start Babies Program for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children$7,50011%
Stockton University$7,0001n/a
Case Western Reserve University$7,0001n/a
Thomas Jefferson University$7,00010%
Ramapo College of Nj$6,0221n/a
Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church$6,0001n/a
University of Delaware$5,00010%
Cedarville University$4,0001n/a
Florida Southern College$3,9201n/a
Northeastern University$2,50010%
Bryant University$2,5001n/a
Brooklyn Book Bodega Inc$2,0002n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($166k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Wilson Foundationinc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Craig School: $44,650 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSeton Hall University: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe College of Wooster: $24,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston College: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKitchen Garden Project Inc Garden-Raised Bounty: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLG Academy a NJ Nonprofit Corporation: $19,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSacred Heart University Incorporated: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBerklee College of Music Inc: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVillanova University: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $13,310 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFar Hills Country Day School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Praxis Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMoravian University: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSound Start Babies Program for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThomas Jefferson University: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Delaware: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNortheastern University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Wilson Foundationinc?

Find your warmest path to The Wilson Foundationinc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Wilson Foundationinc

How much does The Wilson Foundationinc give?
The Wilson Foundationinc reported 32 grants totaling $178,122 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does The Wilson Foundationinc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (91%), Environment (4%), Health (4%).
Who are The Wilson Foundationinc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2026: The Craig School ($45k), Seton Hall University ($40k), Clemson University ($31k).
Does The Wilson Foundationinc fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Wilson Foundationinc 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 Foundationinc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Wilson Foundationinc based?
The Wilson Foundationinc is based in NJ.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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