· Private foundation
Wilensky Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STRONGHOLD RESCUE AND RELIEF | $2,770 |
| PAWS OF HONOR | $2,770 |
| THE LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $2,770 |
| CHARLIE DANIELS JOURNEY HOME PROJEC | $2,770 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA | $2,770 |
| LITTLE GLD OF ST FRANCIS FOR ANIM | $2,770 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,770 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,770 |
| HEALING TOWERS | $2,770 |
| PREBORN | $2,770 |
| NINJAS FIGHTING LYMPHEDEMA | $2,770 |
| WOMENS' RIGHTS WITHOUT FRONTIERS IN | $2,770 |
| MISSION K-9 RESCUE | $2,770 |
| PUFFY PAWS KITTY HAVEN | $2,770 |
| HEART OF GOLD HORSE SANCTUARY | $2,770 |
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 (FY19–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
32 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +145%- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +4%
- MTMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- WRWOMEN'S RIGHTS WITHOUT FRONTIERS INTERNATIONALone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +5%
- BBBAILEY BAIO ANGEL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -95%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
The mission of the corporation is to provide support for the war dogs of the united states military. the organization provides care packages to war dogs and their handlers serving overseas. the organization also provides support for…
Protection of animal rights
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
The animal rescue league of boston's vision is to confront animal cruelty and neglect at its root causes. through programs, services, and facilities focused on accessible animal care, public advocacy, and sustained anti-cruelty efforts...…
Research and advocacy for veterans with post-traumatic stress and the prevention of veteran suicide.
Our mission is to save the lives of homeless pets, promote kindness to animals, and advance the highest standards in animal welfare. Our goal is to create an environment in which all rescued animals are given or found a permanent loving…
The foundation's mission embodies the character and values of detective wenjian liu, a new york police department detective who was shot and killed in the line of duty in a marked patrol car in december 2014. the foundation strives to…
The organization's mission is to transform the lives of veterans by helping them save an at risk shelter dog or cat, and to end all animal homelessness in the us and enrich the lives of men and women who serve, and have served our country.…
The organization will address the global street dog problem through sterilization, vaccination, critical medical care, and re-homing of sick, injured, and abused dogs.
Korean k9 rescue inc is a non-profit no-kill 501c3 dog rescue organization that saves dogs from the mea trade puppy mills and high-kill shelters in south korea. due to the stigma associated with mixed breed and dog meat farm dogs most dogs…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Guild of St Francis and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 46 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE CAT HOUSE ON THE KINGS INC ↗
- Who funds NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds KYLEES KARE KITS FOR KIDZ INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING TOWERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLIE DANIELS JOURNEY HOME PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PUFFY PAWS KITTY HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds NINJAS FIGHTING LYMPHEDEMA ↗
- Who funds THE REVOLVING MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SOLDIERS' ANGELS ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAWS OF HONOR INC ↗
- Who funds Mission K9 Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds LITTLE GUILD OF ST FRANCIS ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE PETIT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RIGHTS WITHOUT FRONTIERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BAILEY BAIO ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STRONGHOLD RESCUE & RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Wilensky 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% 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.