· Private foundation
Wilks Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +42% since the first grant, against +40% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- KMKING MIDDLE SCHOOL PTA FUNDone grant, 2021 · $1k
- EETCone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
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…
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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 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 TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FARM NECK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds Pittsburgh Botanic Garden ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wilks Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wilks Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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