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Tom Wilson Foundation Inc

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.

$310k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$235k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.0MEnvironment$86kFood & Nutrition$75kHealth$63kRecreation & Sports$50kPhilanthropy$21kAnimals$15kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $235k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOLDERNESS ACADEMY$235,000
KELLY BRUSH FOUNDATION$35,000
UTAH OPEN LANDS$10,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$10,000
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$5,000
FRANCONIA SKI CLUB$5,000
1769 SOCIETY-DARTMOUTH COLLEGE FUND$5,000
WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION$1,000
LISTEN COMMUNITY SERVICES$1,000
LIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION$1,000
Camp Kesem Dartmouth Chapter$1,000
PROTECT OUR WINTERS$1,000
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 (FY22–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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%LISTEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 10%LISTEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 10%LISTEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 10%LISTEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 10%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
NH
IL
NY
MA
CA
UT
CO
DC
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 13 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

$1.2M
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+34%

Still filing today

85%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
EducationRecreation & SportsEnvironmentAnimalsFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • TF
    THE FAY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $82k · revenue +30%
  • UO
    UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +241%
  • SC
    SUMMIT COMMUNITY GARDENS AND EATS
    6× · 2017–2023 · $75k · revenue +689% · 47% of their budget

Funded once

  • NC
    Nuzzles & Co
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -9%
  • CC
    CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -9%
  • PC
    PARK CITY LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
2
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…

Education
3
United States Ski Association

United States Ski Association is the national governing body overseeing the sports of Olympic and Paralympic skiing and snowboarding in the United States. See Schedule O for continuation.

Recreation & Sports
4
United States Skiing Foundation

United states skiing foundation is engaged in not-for-profit membership, competition, training, development, and educational activities related to amateur skiers and snowboarders who are, or aspire to become, members of the u.s. ski and…

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5
Ussa Investment Fund

Operates exclusively to manage the investment of endowment gifts made for the benefit of supporting the development, training, and competition of elite national, international, and development athletes in skiing and snowboarding.

Recreation & Sports
6
United States Ski Team Foundation

Operates for the benefit and support of world-class skiing and snowboarding, including coaching and training athletes in these sports.

Recreation & Sports
7
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
8
Summit Land Conservancy

Summit land conservancy works with utah communities to conserve land and water for the benefit of the people and nature.

Environment
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
10
Vail Valley Foundation

Vail valley foundation was created to enhance the quality of life in the vail valley and showcase our community to a global audience through arts, athletics, and education.

Community Improvement
11
Pikes Peak Community Foundation

To inspire a passionate community to forge an enduring legacy now and for future generations. this mission is attained by building a community endowment, helping donors address community needs and providing philanthropic leadership.

Philanthropy
12
Glacier National Park Conservancy

The glacier national park conservancy works to preserve and protect glacier national park for future generations.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Nuzzles & Co. 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

21 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. 21 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOLDERNESS ACADEMY: $739,000 · OtherHOLDERNESS ACADEMY1769 SOCIETY-DARTMOUTH COLLEGE FUND: $45,000 · Other1769 SOCIETY-DARTMOUTH COLLEGE FUND+10 more: $21,000 · OtherTHE FAY SCHOOL INC: $82,000 · EducationTHE FAY SCHOOL INCTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $60,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COL…Park City Education Foundation: $43,000 · EducationPark City Education Fo…WINTER SPORTS SCHOOL IN PARK CITY: $40,000 · EducationWINTER SPORTS SCHOOL I…Trustees of Dartmouth College: $35,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth …+1 more: $2,000 · EducationUTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $75,000 · EnvironmentPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $10,000 · EnvironmentSUMMIT COMMUNITY GARDENS AND EATS: $75,000 · Food & NutritionTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC: $63,000 · Recreation & SportsFranconia Ski Club: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · AnimalsNuzzles & Co: $5,000 · Animals
Other$805,000Education$262,000Environment$85,000Food & Nutrition$75,000Recreation & Sports$73,000Philanthropy$21,000Animals$15,000

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 FAY SCHOOL INC: $82,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $75,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSUMMIT COMMUNITY GARDENS AND EATS: $75,000 over 6y, 47% of budgetTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC: $63,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPark City Education Foundation: $43,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $10,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFranconia Ski Club: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNuzzles & Co: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUTAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 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.

Park City Community F…Mightycause Charitabl…Sad Foundation IncBloomer Family Founda…Ssir Cares IncByrne Family Foundati…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
Park City Community FoundationUT19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Park City Community Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Sad Foundation Inc · Bloomer Family Foundation · Ssir Cares Inc · Byrne Family Foundation Trust · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Tom Wilson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tom Wilson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 Tom Wilson Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Tom Wilson Foundation Inc 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 29 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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