· Private foundation
Wilkes Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $67k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $74k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL THEATRE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL | $74,392 |
| DC POLICY CENTER | $29,167 |
| NATIONAL THEATRE FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| NATIONAL THEATRE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UVA SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PROS FORE CLOTHES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SAFE SHORES - THE DC CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $5,000 |
| EASTERSEALS | $2,700 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of its 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 +90% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TNTHE NATIONAL THEATRE FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $338k · revenue +90%
- USUVA SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $14k
- PFPROS FORE CLOTHES FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- NGNational Gallery of Artgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +147%
- SDSAFESHORES DC CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CTone grant, 2023 · $10k
- ARAMERICA REMEMBERS FUNDone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…
The district of columbia bar foundation was established to raise funds for organizations in the district that provide hands-on legal services to residents who are unable to afford legal assistance.
The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center provides free legal services through pro bono lawyers to low-income individuals, nonprofit organizations and small businesses primarily in the District of Columbia. The Pro Bono Center also recruits and trains…
To provide information about public policy and national policy alternatives to leaders in business, government, religion, and academia.
Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
DC Affordable Law Firm delivers accessible justice to modest-income DC residents who do not qualify for traditional sources of free civil legal services and cannot afford standard representation. Our innovative programming expands access…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 13 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 THE NATIONAL THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds DC POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds PROS FORE CLOTHES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICA REMEMBERS FUND ↗
- Who funds THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
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: Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wilkes Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wilkes Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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