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Wayne Grey Wilson 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BERKELEY HERBAL CENTER | $15,000 |
| FALCON FOUNDATION | $14,500 |
| OUR CENTER RENO | $10,000 |
| GREEN VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL FINE ARTS | $10,000 |
| TO PROUDLY GO | $9,500 |
| LAWAI INTERNATIONAL CENTER | $8,357 |
| HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE | $7,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| HEARTS ALIVE | $7,500 |
| NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $5,500 |
| YOUTH ON COURSE | $5,000 |
| MOLLY'S ANGELS | $4,643 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $219k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CCCOLLABRIA CARE6× · 2017–2022 · $168k · revenue +40%
- NCNAPA COUNTY LAND TRUST5× · 2017–2022 · $115k · revenue +298%
- CRCommunity Resources for Children7× · 2017–2023 · $107k · revenue +392%
Funded once
- NLNAPA LONG TERM CARE OMBUDSAN PROGRAone grant, 2017 · $60k
- AOAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +156%
WALLOWA RESOURCES INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -12%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Located in scenic Napa Valley, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art engages its community in the connective power of art and nature through its permanent collection of Northern California art, contemporary exhibitions, and thought-provoking…
The napa valley museum is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to enriching the cultural fabric of our community through exhibitions, collections, educational programs and creative activities that promote knowledge and…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
California Arts Advocates is a comprehensive lobbying organization for the arts, culture and creative industries and workforce.
Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…
Chac seeks to improve lives and strengthen communities through access to comprehensive and culturally responsive mental health services in northern santa clara county.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
San carlos children's theater is a non-profit organization committed to educating youth on all aspects of theater production while nurturing creative expression, teamwork and appreciation for the arts
A public school dedicated to helping children to become thoughtful, informed, and inquisitive citizens. noccs is a vibrant, diverse learning community driven by respect for each child's unique intelligence and history. our school's dynamic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Napa County Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is The Tank Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COLLABRIA CARE ↗
- Who funds NAPA COUNTY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Community Resources for Children ↗
- Who funds Cope Family Center ↗
- Who funds AHA HUI E KALA DBA LAWAI INTERNATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION THEATER ↗
- Who funds MOLLYS ANGELS ↗
- Who funds Harvey Mudd College ↗
- Who funds NCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FALCON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY HERBAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds WALLOWA RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Sierra Academy of Expeditionary Learning ↗
- Who funds THE TANK LTD ↗
- Who funds PROJECT GLIMMER ↗
- Who funds NEVADA COUNTY CULTURAL PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Napa Valley · Peter a & Vernice H Gasser Foundation · Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Wayne Grey Wilson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wallowa Resources Inc — 100% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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