· Private foundation
Tom & Lilian Grinnan Wilkinson Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| P GRIFFIN MEM LATCH KEY | $4,000 |
| LYRIC THEATRE | $1,500 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| TEXAS RAMP PROJECT | $1,000 |
| HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BROWN CO PRISON MINISTRY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MAY SOCIAL CENTER | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE ARK | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +50% since the first grant, against -77% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 8 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, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SISLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC2× · 2022–2023 · $5k · revenue +76%
- HHHOPE HOME MINISTRY2× · 2020–2023 · $3k · revenue +165%
- TAThe Ark Domestic Violence Shelter Inc3× · 2018–2023 · $3k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- HGHOT GIRL SCOUT COUNCILone grant, 2020 · $3k
- DVDAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2023 · $2k
- PJPUTTER JARVIS MEMORIAL FUNDone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
To provide women, non-binary people, and the families they lead with shelter, housing, and the opportunity to explore options for their future during periods of crisis or transition.
Assisting and housing females in recovery
Home place of texas is a non-denominational christ-centered community for adults with disabilities. the organization provides residential services (program ended sept 2019), day habilitation services, bible study, improvement of life…
Houston Area Development Corporation (HACDC), a Community Housing Development Corporation (CHDO), owns and operates single room occupancy (SRO) properties housing low-income individuals and the chronically homeless. It offers robust…
Provide care, assistance, and counseling for abused women. Provide food for needy families.
Provide safe supportive housing
Provide a safe home for women in a faith-based program and restoring them back to the community with deployable life skills.
To provide life-stabilizing, affordable housing and support for people with very limited incomes.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 37 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
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 SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds ALDERSGATE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY HOME SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOME MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds The Ark Domestic Violence Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds DAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF BROWNWOOD ↗
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: E P Woodruff Trust · B C and Gladys L Drinkard Foundation Inc · Central Texas Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tom & Lilian Grinnan Wilkinson Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tom & Lilian Grinnan Wilkinson Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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