· Private foundation
Wilkes-Desmond Educational 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.
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.
The 13 grants below total $171,608 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $223,211 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $51,603 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $148k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Finger Lakes Community College | $44,177 |
| St. John Fisher College | $21,000 |
| Cayuga Community College | $14,800 |
| Nazareth University | $14,000 |
| Keuka College | $14,000 |
| Alfred University | $14,000 |
| Cornell University | $14,000 |
| University at Albany | $12,242 |
| Clemson University | $7,000 |
| Clarkson University | $7,000 |
| Genesee Community College | $4,448 |
| Monroe Community College | $3,341 |
| Alfred State College | $1,600 |
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 +18% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 2 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
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
- KCKEUKA COLLEGE7× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +6%
Rochester Institute of Technology7× · 2017–2024 · $92k · revenue +61%- SJST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- SBST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue +12%
- EBEmpire Beauty Schoolone grant, 2022 · $8k
- SCSUNY - College at Brockportone grant, 2018 · $7k
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 79 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 70 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 KEUKA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Le Moyne College ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALFRED UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds DAEMEN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAZENOVIA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ELMIRA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa ↗
- Who funds WELLS COLLEGE ↗
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: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Jessie H Baker Educational Fund · W H Coe Medical & Surgical Fund 18363900 · Gazin Norbert L Education Pfdn 101-0628960 · Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Kilkea Foundation Inc · Tuw Alice Koon FBO Scholastic Fund · Gouverneur Foundation · Jephson Educational Trust #2 Xxxxx1004
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.