· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k75 grants · $199k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $17,750 |
| MOTHERS OUT FRONT | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| STORY TAPESTRIES | $15,000 |
| CONCORD HILL SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| COLUMBUS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | $15,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $10,000 |
| MARIN CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SACO RIVER THEATRE | $10,000 |
| GO GLOBAL NC | $10,000 |
| COVENANT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| MANY HANDS LIFESHARING COMMUNITY | $8,000 |
| BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL SHELTER | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +20% since the first grant, against +0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Columbus School for Girls ↗
- Who funds The Saco River Theatre ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wilkinson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wilkinson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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