· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k127 grants · $200k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $121k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAS PATRONAS | $50,000 |
| UCSD SHILEY EYEMOBILE FOR CHILDREN | $40,000 |
| SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $21,000 |
| YOUTH TENNIS SAN DIEGO | $19,000 |
| LUIS PALAU ASSOCIATION | $16,100 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| SAN DIEGO ZOO WILDLIFE ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| FEEDING SAN DIEGO | $5,500 |
| UCSD STUDENT RUN FREE CLINIC | $5,000 |
| URBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $5,000 |
| THE EVANS SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTON PARK UNITED METHODIST PRESCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT | $5,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| PROSALUD | $4,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $299k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 49% of The Wilson Sexton Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 12% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 44%.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
178 repeat relationships: 113 still active in FY2024, 65 since wound down; 20 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTryall Fund Jamaica6× · 2019–2024 · $174k · revenue +727%
- LPLuis Palau Association6× · 2019–2024 · $105k · revenue +35%
- LPLAS PATRONAS6× · 2019–2024 · $104k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +25%
- AAALS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $15k
- YLYOUNG LIFE OF EASTERN DU PAGEone 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.
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.
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How this is measured
180 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. 180 of the 284 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Tryall Fund Jamaica ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds LAS PATRONAS ↗
- Who funds YOUTH TENNIS SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NEPAL ORPHANS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds EVANS SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN RAILROAD ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS NOURISHING NEIGHBORS ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ARTOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds ARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Medical Bridges Inc ↗
- Who funds HEAD START OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wilson Sexton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wilson Sexton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Giraffe Conservation Foundation Usa: 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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