New York · Private foundation
Wilks Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $700
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 20
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $254k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Wilks Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $330 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 | 5 | $4k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $4k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $13k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $14k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $26k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marthas Vineyard Hebrew Center | $13,640 | 4 | n/a |
| Martha's Vineyard Museum Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sailfish Point Foundation Inc | $6,350 | 5 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Martin County | $2,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Temple Beit Ha Yam Inc | $2,558 | 2 | n/a |
| Cancer Research Institute Inc | $2,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc | $1,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Project Lift Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Safespace Inc | $300 | 2 | 0% |
| Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marthas Vineyard Hebrew Center | $13,640 | 4 | n/a |
| Martha's Vineyard Museum Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sailfish Point Foundation Inc | $6,350 | 5 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Martin County | $2,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Temple Beit Ha Yam Inc | $2,558 | 2 | n/a |
| Cancer Research Institute Inc | $2,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc | $1,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Project Lift Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Safespace Inc | $300 | 2 | 0% |
| Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Farm Neck Foundation Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $200 | 1 | n/a |
| South Florida Pbs Inc | $150 | 2 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Botanic Garden | $80 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($22k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wilks Family 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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Wilks Family Foundation
- How much does Wilks Family Foundation give?
- Wilks Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $4,340 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 20 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Wilks Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (32%), Health (20%), Arts & Culture (17%).
- Who are Wilks Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Marthas Vineyard Hebrew Center ($14k), Martha's Vineyard Museum Inc ($9k), Sailfish Point Foundation Inc ($6k).
- Does Wilks Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wilks Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wilks Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Wilks Family Foundation based?
- Wilks Family Foundation is based in NY.
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