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Thomas and Maria Wilcox Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$179k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.2MHuman Services$439kHousing & Shelter$135kPhilanthropy$125kYouth Development$65kHealth$55kRecreation & Sports$25kReligion$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $158k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY$27,500
TEEN CENTER OF WILTON INC (AKA TRACKSIDE)$25,000
HOMES WITH HOPE$25,000
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE$25,000
TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION$25,000
PERSON TO PERSON$20,000
MALTA HOUSE$10,000
FRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC$6,700
CARTIE CORP$5,000
BACK TO SCHOOL SHOP INC$5,000
THE CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $414k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $58k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $58k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $55k → 9%Family and Children's Agency: $53k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $50k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $47k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $43k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $28k → 9%Family and Children's Agency: $23k → 9%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 9 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$1.9M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+194%

Still filing today

78%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • PT
    PERSON TO PERSON INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +19%
  • HW
    HOMES WITH HOPE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +35%
  • TT
    THE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $45k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE HEIGHTS BPS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • BF
    BPS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +194%
  • SF
    St Francis of Assisi Parish
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
Fairfield University

To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.

Education
3
Bristol Hospital Development Foundation Inc

The bristol hospital development foundation is dedicated to the financial support of bristol hospital and health care group through implementation and enhancement of hospital and affiliate-based development and community relations…

Health
4
Catholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc

Catholic charities of fairfield county's mission is to help the needy and most vulnerable of all faiths with solutions that permanently improve their lives. we provide supportive services that enable families to rise up out of poverty,…

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5
Berkshire Faculty Services Inc

The mission of berkshire faculty services is to advance health and wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive and personalized environment.

Health
6
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
7
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Bridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc

To support bridgeport hospital by, in large part, fundraising, and further, to fund and promote activities of the yale new haven health system, the integrated health care delivery system of which it is a part.

Health
9
Children's Hospital Association Inc

Children's hospital association (cha) is invested in supporting innovative, inclusive, and integral health care programs and services that provide supplemental and essential support to children and families receiving care at children's…

Health
10
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
11
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…

Education
12
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family & Children's Agency Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bps Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOSTON COLLEGE-OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT: $1,000,000 · OtherBOSTON COLLEGE-OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENTHOMES WITH HOPE: $105,000 · OtherHOMES WITH HOPE+5 more: $135,000 · Other+5 moreFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $413,750 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGE…Teach for America Inc: $125,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationPERSON TO PERSON INC: $125,000 · PhilanthropyTHE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · HealthCIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC: $5,000 · HealthCHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthMALTA HOUSE INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterCARTIE CORP: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC: $6,700 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,240,000Human Services$413,750Education$155,000Philanthropy$125,000Health$55,000Housing & Shelter$30,000Arts & Culture$16,700

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 budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $413,750 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $125,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES WITH HOPE: $105,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMALTA HOUSE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBPS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCARTIE CORP: $10,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC: $6,700 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBACK TO SCHOOL SHOP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOMES WITH HOPE ↗
  • Who funds THE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MALTA HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BPS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CARTIE CORP ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds BACK TO SCHOOL SHOP INC ↗
  • Who funds CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bauer Family Foundation Inc · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust · The Near and Far Association Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Mbia Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Thomas and Maria Wilcox Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas and Maria Wilcox Family Foundation. 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Family & Children's Agency Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Homes With Hope: 28% of income from government
  • Friends of Ambler Farm Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Cartie Corp: 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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