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Wilks Family 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION | $2,100 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY | $1,250 |
| CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUE | $700 |
| SAFE SPACE INC | $200 |
| SOUTH FLORIDA PBC INC | $90 |
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 (FY23–25, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +42% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC3× · 2021–2023 · $9k · revenue +67%
- SPSAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +42%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY2× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- MHMARTIN HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
- EETCone grant, 2021 · $1k
- KMKING MIDDLE SCHOOL PTA FUNDone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
The martha's vineyard shellfish group, a non-profit consortium of the shellfish departments of six island towns, provides shellfish propagation services to increase the availability of juvenile commercially valuable molluscan shellfish…
The martha's vineyard agricultural society supports a resilient and sustainable agricultural community on martha's vineyard. we do this by:- offering services, education, marketing, and technical support for farmers and farmworkers on the…
The organization's primary mission is to acquire, restore, and maintain the historic landmarks of martha's vineyard and to preserve the island's unique character, cultural history, and heritage for the community and it's visitors.
To produce public, education, and governmental (peg) access programming for the residents and organizations of the six communities of the island of martha's vineyard. in addition, the organization allocates channel space and time to…
To bind its members together by a common objective to provide leisure and recreation.
Safeguarding martha's vineyard's fishing heritage and future by supporting the island's small-boat owner-operated fishing fleets and their sustainably harvested catch.
Peconic Public Broadcasting is a public FM radio station located in Southampton, New York. The station services Long Island and coastal Connecticut and offers listeners both national and local programs.
Wmvy's goal is to serve the communities of martha's vineyard and cape cod and to reflect the voice and spirit of those who live here, through the station's programming and personalities. mvy works hard to provide the community with…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Marin theatre company is the bay area's premier mid-size theater and the leading professional theater in the north bay. mtc produces a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in an…
To inspire participation and passion for the arts of martin county, florida. key programs include the court house cultural center gallery and educational arts programs.
Peninsula players theatre is committed to preserving america's oldest professional resident summer theatre in its unique setting on sixteen forested acres along the shores of green bay. the theater's mission is to support, without…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safespace Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pittsburgh Botanic Garden. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 28 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 MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LIFT INC ↗
- Who funds SAFESPACE INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FARM NECK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds Pittsburgh Botanic Garden ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Wilks Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Safespace Inc — 25% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs 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.
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