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Wilkins Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$193k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$271kHousing & Shelter$229kHealth$172kCrime & Legal$130kFood & Nutrition$107kYouth Development$81kPublic Safety & Disaster$47kEducation$41kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $183k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRED HUTCHISON CANCER RESEARCH$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$7,000
BRIDGE DISABILITY MINISTRIES$6,666
CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH$5,000
BRIDGE BACK PROJECT$5,000
KANDELIA$5,000
DAWN - DOMESTIC ABUSE WOMEN'S$5,000
THE SOPHIA WAY$5,000
SUPPORT 7$5,000
VETERAN RITES INC$5,000
HOPE CENTRAL$5,000
WASHINGTON VOCATIONAL SERVICES$5,000
GENETIC SUPPORT FOUNDATION$5,000
YWCA OF TACOMA & PIERCE COUNTY$5,000
CHRISTMAS HOUSE$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FOSTERFUL: $5k → 9%OFFICE MOMS & DADS: $5k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF SKAGIT VALLEY: $4k → 11%SOUND GENERATIONS: $10k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $5k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $5k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $5k → 9%TACID: $5k → 9%WISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $5k → 9%SECOND CHANCE OUTREACH: $5k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $5k → 9%MONROE GOSPEL WOMEN'S MISSION: $5k → 9%VETERAN RITES INC: $5k → 9%MONROE GOSPEL WOMEN'S MISSION: $5k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $5k → 9%LIFEWIRE fka EASTSIDE DOMESTIC: $5k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $8k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $5k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $8k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $5k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $5k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $5k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $5k → 9%SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $4k → 9%SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $4k → 9%NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY SOCIETY: $5k → 9%NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY SOCIETY: $5k → 9%ANTIOCH ADOPTIONS: $5k → 9%EASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS: $5k → 9%EASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS: $5k → 9%EASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS: $5k → 9%GUIDED PATHWAYS-SUPPORT FOR YOUTH: $5k → 9%CITY MINISTRIES: $5k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $5k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $5k → 9%FAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY: $5k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $5k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $5k → 9%NAMI WASHINGTON: $5k → 9%EASTSIDE BABY CORNER: $8k → 9%FAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY: $5k → 9%EASTSIDE BABY CORNER: $5k → 9%FAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY: $5k → 9%EASTSIDE BABY CORNER: $5k → 9%KIDVANTAGE: $5k → 9%KANDELIA: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$912k · 65 repeat orgs$269k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
41

Total granted

$912k
$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+14%

Still filing today

74%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TS
    THE SOPHIA WAY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $28k · revenue +3%
  • NK
    NORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS
    2× · 2020–2022 · $27k · revenue +11%
  • K
    KIDVANTAGE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $23k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • SC
    SEATTLE CHILDRENS PLAYGARDEN
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +16%
  • FE
    FREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT PUGET
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Transitions

Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.

Human Services
2
Network Services

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…

Human Services
3
St Francis House

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.

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4
Family Promise of Pierce County

To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.

Housing & Shelter
5
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

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.

Human Services
6
House Our Neighbors

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…

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7
Northwest Counseling Service Inc

Housing Counseling Services

Housing & Shelter
8
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
9
South Peninsula Behavioral Health Services Inc

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…

Health
10
Solid Ground Washington

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…

Housing & Shelter
11
Recovery Cafe Skagit

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.

Education
12
Project Access Northwest

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sophia Way; 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.
04the grantee network

84 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. 84 of the 119 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/84
Grantees still filing
60/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $21,000 · OtherFINANCIAL BEGINNINGS WASHINGTON: $20,000 · OtherNorth Helpline: $20,000 · OtherBridge Ministries Bridge Disability Ministries: $23,332 · Other+56 more: $480,331 · Other+56 moreTHE SOPHIA WAY: $27,500 · Human ServicesTHE SOPHIA WAYKIDVANTAGE: $22,500 · Human ServicesKIDVANTAGEWESTSIDE BABY: $20,000 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE BABYSOUND GENERATIONS: $20,000 · Human ServicesSOUND GENERATIONSElizabeth Home: $20,000 · Human ServicesElizabeth HomeFAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY: $15,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY LAW CASA OF KING C…EASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS: $15,000 · Human ServicesEASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIO…Needs of the Community Society: $14,000 · Human ServicesNeeds of the Community So…SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $13,000 · Human ServicesVISION HOUSE: $12,500 · Human ServicesFOSTERFUL: $10,000 · Human ServicesMonroe Gospel Womens Mission: $10,000 · Human Services+13 more: $62,000 · Human Services+13 moreNORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS: $26,667 · HealthNORTHWEST KID…MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthMEDIC ONE FOU…Acres of Diamonds: $15,000 · HealthAcres of Diam…CATHERINE PLACE: $10,500 · HealthCATHERINE PLA…HOPECENTRAL: $10,000 · HealthHOPECENTRALPediatric Interim Care Center: $10,000 · HealthPediatric Int…DRUG ABUSE COUNCIL OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $10,000 · HealthDRUG ABUSE CO…BLOODWORKS: $7,500 · HealthLAHAI HEALTH: $5,000 · HealthGenetic Support Foundation Inc: $5,000 · HealthHEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER: $5,000 · HealthBRIDGE BACK PROJECT: $5,000 · HealthRoanoke Park Counseling: $5,000 · HealthFREE RANGE HEALTH: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthBABIES OF HOMELESSNESS: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterEXODUS HOUSING: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterCOCOON HOUSE: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterPLYMOUTH HEALING COMMUNITIES: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterSNOQUALMIE VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW PHOEBE HOUSE: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterHumble Design Inc: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterBACKPACK BRIGADE: $20,000 · Food & NutritionHunger Intervention Program: $20,000 · Food & NutritionWest Seattle Food Bank: $15,000 · Food & NutritionEastWest Food Rescue: $5,000 · Food & NutritionMaris Place: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentSEATTLE CHILDRENS PLAYGARDEN: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFAMILYWORKS: $15,000 · Community ImprovementCIS OF GREATER KING COUNTY DBA COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSEASHARE: $10,000 · Community ImprovementORION INDUSTRIES: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$564,663Human Services$261,500Health$141,667Housing & Shelter$73,000Food & Nutrition$60,000Youth Development$40,000Community Improvement$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SOPHIA WAY: $27,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS: $26,667 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBridge Ministries Bridge Disability Ministries: $23,332 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetKIDVANTAGE: $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEDIC ONE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFINANCIAL BEGINNINGS WASHINGTON: $20,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetWESTSIDE BABY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Helpline: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBACKPACK BRIGADE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHunger Intervention Program: $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSOUND GENERATIONS: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetElizabeth Home: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMaris Place: $15,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetATTAIN HOUSING: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILYWORKS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBABIES OF HOMELESSNESS: $15,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAcres of Diamonds: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWest Seattle Food Bank: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEXODUS HOUSING: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTEEN FEED: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS: $15,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNeeds of the Community Society: $14,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetSAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVISION HOUSE: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTMAS HOUSE: $12,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetFREEDOM PROJECT: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF THE EASTSIDE: $11,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCATHERINE PLACE: $10,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SEATTLE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHOPECENTRAL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE MILK FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFOSTERFUL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDRENS PLAYGARDEN: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSUPPORT 7: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMonroe Gospel Womens Mission: $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCIS OF GREATER KING COUNTY DBA COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEASHARE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPediatric Interim Care Center: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDRUG ABUSE COUNCIL OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDress for Success Seattle: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE DOVE PROJECT: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBLOODWORKS: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 SOPHIA WAY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds Bridge Ministries Bridge Disability Ministries ↗
  • Who funds KIDVANTAGE ↗
  • Who funds MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds WESTSIDE BABY ↗
  • Who funds North Helpline ↗
  • Who funds BACKPACK BRIGADE ↗
  • Who funds Hunger Intervention Program ↗
  • Who funds SOUND GENERATIONS ↗
  • Who funds Elizabeth Home ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Maris Place ↗
  • Who funds ATTAIN HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds FAMILYWORKS ↗
  • Who funds BABIES OF HOMELESSNESS ↗
  • Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS ↗
  • Who funds Acres of Diamonds ↗
  • Who funds West Seattle Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EXODUS HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds TEEN FEED ↗
  • Who funds EASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS ↗
  • Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Seattle FoundationKawabe Memorial FundLiberty Mutual Founda…Medina FoundationWashington Federal Fo…Moccasin Lake Foundat…United Way of King Co…Lucky Seven FoundationWindermere FoundationEmployees Community F…
The Norcliffe FoundationWA102.1× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wilkins Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wilkins Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Wilkins Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Wilkins Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 119 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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