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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 FY2026still arriving
32
Grants FY2026still arriving
13
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2026 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k26 grants · $117k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $61k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$11,277
CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS$10,000
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY$10,000
DREW UNIVERSITY$10,000
ARCADIA UNIVERSITY$10,000
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY$10,000
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY$8,723
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY$8,000
SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY$8,000
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT$8,000
CASE WESTERN RESEVE UNIVERSITY$7,000
LUMEN GENTIUM ACADEMY$6,900
GRUB$5,000
BOSTON COLLEGE$5,000
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY26–26, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $10k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
NY
MA
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
DE
TN
NC
SC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$372k · 20 repeat orgs$283k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2026, 8 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
23

Total granted

$372k
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
0%

Still filing today

60%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationEnvironmentHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    THE CRAIG SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2026 · $45k · revenue +9%
  • SH
    SETON HALL UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +24%
  • THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER
    2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2025 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
9
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

—
10
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacred Heart University Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Kitchen Garden Project Inc Garden-Raised Bounty. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 64 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · OtherSETON HALL UNIVERSITYCLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $30,764 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITYLUMEN GENTIUM ACADEMY: $19,900 · OtherLUMEN GENTIUM ACADEMYIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · OtherTHE FARM SCHOOL: $14,400 · Other+32 more: $211,197 · Other+32 moreTHE CRAIG SCHOOL: $44,650 · EducationTHE CRAIG SCHOOLTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $24,500 · EducationTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTERTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $21,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEFairfield University: $20,000 · EducationFairfield UniversityLG Academy a NJ Nonprofit Corporation: $19,000 · EducationLG Academy a NJ Nonprofit CorporationSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $18,000 · EducationSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATEDBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $17,000 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INCVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $16,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $13,310 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $11,277 · EducationARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationFAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationDREW UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Education+8 more: $42,420 · Education+8 moreKITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY: $20,000 · EnvironmentTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $10,000 · HealthBROWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $10,000 · Human ServicesBROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC: $2,000 · Youth Development
Other$346,261Education$277,157Environment$20,000Health$10,000Community Improvement$10,000Human Services$10,000Youth Development$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $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
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.

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 C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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 →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Wilson Foundationinc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wilson Foundationinc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

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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