Michigan · 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.
- $352k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 87
- Grants FY2025
- 78
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 99
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 23
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Wilkinson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 85 | $349k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 78 | $300k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 75 | $259k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 99 | $397k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 96 | $344k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $324k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $326k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $292k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $86,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Concord Hill School | $43,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Michigan School of Psychology | $36,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cass Clinic | $35,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Columbus School for Girls | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Saco River Theatre | $35,000 | 5 | 5% |
| The Branson School | $34,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Michigan Humane Society | $33,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Covenant Presbyterian Church | $32,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Center for Biological Diversity Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 86 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 65 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wilkinson Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Wilkinson Foundation
- How much does Wilkinson Foundation give?
- Wilkinson Foundation reported 87 grants totaling $352,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 99 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Wilkinson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (12%), Arts & Culture (8%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are Wilkinson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($87k), Concord Hill School ($43k), Michigan School of Psychology ($36k).
- Does Wilkinson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wilkinson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wilkinson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation, United Jewish Foundation.
- Where is Wilkinson Foundation based?
- Wilkinson Foundation is based in MI.
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