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Wilkins Charitable 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $183k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRED HUTCHISON CANCER RESEARCH | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $7,000 |
| BRIDGE DISABILITY MINISTRIES | $6,666 |
| GENETIC SUPPORT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| YWCA OF TACOMA & PIERCE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| BABIES OF HOMELESSNESS | $5,000 |
| ACES OF DIAMONDS | $5,000 |
| ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME | $5,000 |
| DAWN - DOMESTIC ABUSE WOMEN'S | $5,000 |
| VETERAN RITES INC | $5,000 |
| SOUTH PARK SENIOR CITIZENS | $5,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH | $5,000 |
| HUNGER INTERVENTION PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| THE SOPHIA WAY | $5,000 |
| NORTH HELPLINE | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $257k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +21% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 13 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- TSTHE SOPHIA WAY5× · 2021–2025 · $28k · revenue +3%
- NKNORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS2× · 2020–2022 · $27k · revenue +11%
- KKIDVANTAGE4× · 2020–2023 · $23k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- SCSEATTLE CHILDRENS PLAYGARDENone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +16%
- FEFREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT PUGETone grant, 2023 · $6k
- SMSEATTLE MILK FUND dba GOODWIN CONNECTIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.
Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…
St. Francis House provides food clothing and necessities at no cost to people with low income or experiencing homelessness in King County Washington. Single men women and families are welcome.
To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.
LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
Housing Counseling Services
SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.
The organization operates primarily on the Southern Kenai Peninsula and its operations include the following:Community Mental Health - Counseling, evaluation, consultation and crisis mental health services for Adults and…
At Solid Ground, we work passionately to end poverty and build a more equitable community. Our services support people experiencing poverty by helping them achieve stability and expand their skills to realize their dreams. And that's just…
Provide a safe, healing, and restorative community that empowers long-term transformation through human connection for those recovering from the trauma of homelessness, addictions, and mental health challenges.
Project Access Northwest provides low-income families access to medical, dental and Behavioral Health care so they can live a healthier and more productive life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sophia Way and the most unlike its peers is Listen and Talk. 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 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
84 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. 84 of the 119 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 THE SOPHIA WAY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Bridge Ministries Bridge Disability Ministries ↗
- Who funds KIDVANTAGE ↗
- Who funds SOUND GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE BABY ↗
- Who funds MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hunger Intervention Program ↗
- Who funds FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds North Helpline ↗
- Who funds Elizabeth Home ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds FAMILYWORKS ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS ↗
- Who funds West Seattle Food Bank ↗
- Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS ↗
- Who funds Acres of Diamonds ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds ATTAIN HOUSING ↗
- Who funds TEEN FEED ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BABIES OF HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds EXODUS HOUSING ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds Needs of the Community Society ↗
- Who funds STREET YOUTH MINITRIES ↗
- Who funds SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM PROJECT ↗
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 Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Kawabe Memorial Fund · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Medina Foundation · Washington Federal Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · United Way of King County · Lucky Seven Foundation · Windermere Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company
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 Wilkins Charitable 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.
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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