· Private foundation
Wilkinson 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k75 grants · $199k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $17,750 |
| COLUMBUS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | $15,000 |
| STORY TAPESTRIES | $15,000 |
| MOTHERS OUT FRONT | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CONCORD HILL SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| SACO RIVER THEATRE | $10,000 |
| GO GLOBAL NC | $10,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $10,000 |
| MARIN CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| COVENANT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE CRISIS CLUB | $8,000 |
| MANY HANDS LIFESHARING COMMUNITY | $8,000 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | $8,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
105 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 14 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; $44k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC4× · 2022–2025 · $87k · revenue +13%- CHCONCORD HILL SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $43k · revenue +28%
- MSMICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY5× · 2021–2025 · $36k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- FAFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGANgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +28%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $12k
- CCCATHEDRAL CAPITAL FUNDone grant, 2021 · $8k
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.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
Eastern market is organized to combat community deterioration and to lessen the burdens of government in managing its public market that has served detroit since 1891. eastern market operates the market under an agreement with the city of…
Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Flint Public Art Project. 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 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 155 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY ↗
- Who funds The Saco River Theatre ↗
- Who funds Columbus School for Girls ↗
- Who funds THE BRANSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE CRISIS CLUB ↗
- Who funds COTS ↗
- Who funds BALLET CHELSEA ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Alice Kales Hartwick Foundation · William & Martha Ford Fund · United Way of Washtenaw County · The Carls Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Consumers Energy 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 Wilkinson 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Arlington Eats Inc — 6% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% 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.