Texas · Private foundation
The Wilson Sexton 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.
- $371k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 134
- Grants FY2024
- 158
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 95 to 158
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 24
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 48% of the organizations The Wilson Sexton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 133 | $356k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 158 | $494k | 48% |
| FY2022 | 118 | $598k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 106 | $410k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 95 | $333k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 106 | $298k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tryall Fund Jamaica | $173,750 | 6 | 10% |
| Luis Palau Association | $105,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Las Patronas | $103,575 | 6 | 4% |
| Youth Tennis San Diego | $66,900 | 6 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $46,380 | 6 | 0% |
| Scripps Health | $41,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $39,500 | 6 | 0% |
| San Diego Humane Society and Spca | $38,425 | 6 | 0% |
| Support the Enlisted Project Inc | $35,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Nepal Orphans Home Inc | $34,000 | 6 | 5% |
Show all 187 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 95 recipients with no EIN on record ($696k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Wilson Sexton Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 176 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Farrell Family Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Bradford Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · The Cushman Foundation
How this is measured
About The Wilson Sexton Foundation
- How much does The Wilson Sexton Foundation give?
- The Wilson Sexton Foundation reported 134 grants totaling $371,075 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 95 and 158 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Wilson Sexton Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Health (17%), Education (14%).
- Who are The Wilson Sexton Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Tryall Fund Jamaica ($174k), Luis Palau Association ($105k), Las Patronas ($104k).
- Does The Wilson Sexton Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wilson Sexton Foundation 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 Sexton Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Farrell Family Foundation, Seckinger Foundation Corporation, The Conrad Prebys Foundation.
- Where is The Wilson Sexton Foundation based?
- The Wilson Sexton Foundation is based in TX.
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