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Wilpon Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$113k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$4.4MHealth$1.0MSocial Science$750kArts & Culture$217kInternational$110kReligion$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
$112,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$158k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Centre College of Kentucky$112,500
Bates College$112,500
Brown University$112,500
The Ohio State University$112,500
University of Pittsburg$112,500
University of Dayton$112,500
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$112,500
University of California Riverside$112,500
Saint Mary's College$112,500
Washington University in St Louis$112,500
Individual grant recipient$20,000
The University of Michigan$10,000
JH Israel$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%University of Pittsburg: $238k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100k → 22%University of California Riverside: $238k → 11%STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY: $10k → 7%QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $167k → 13%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $250k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS: $40k → 17%STFRANCIS COLLEGE: $300k → 20%The Aspen Institute: $750k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HILLEL: $35k → 14%JH Israel: $10k → 16%Washington University in St Louis: $238k → 11%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: $238k → 13%Brown University: $238k → 14%Saint Mary's College: $238k → 13%University of Dayton: $238k → 14%The Ohio State University: $238k → 15%Cente College of Kentucky: $238k → 15%Bates College: $238k → 13%University of Pittsburg: $113k → 11%University of California Riverside: $113k → 11%PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $935k → 14%Washington University in St Louis: $113k → 11%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: $113k → 13%Brown University: $113k → 14%Saint Mary's College: $113k → 13%University of Dayton: $113k → 14%The Ohio State University: $113k → 15%Centre College of Kentucky: $113k → 15%Bates College: $113k → 13%American Friends of Magen David Adom: $100k → 17%The University of Michigan: $10k → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%World Train Center Performing Arts Center: $167k → 17%BROWN RISD HILLEL: $40k → 14%PROJECT SUNSHINE: $25k → 17%Brown RISD Hillel: $20k → 14%Project Sunshine: $25k → 17%Brown RISD Hillel: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MI
NY
IN
OH
PA
RI
CA
MO
KY
NC
DC
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 13 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

$4.3M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+46%

Still filing today

69%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureSocial ScienceInternationalReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    2× · 2020–2024 · $945k · revenue +139%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $350k · revenue +16%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    2× · 2023–2024 · $350k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $750k · revenue +134%
  • SF
    ST FRANCIS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +1%
  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +29%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
7
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
9
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University; the most unlike its peers is Jh Israel. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $350,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $350,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHUniversity of Dayton: $350,000 · EducationUniversity of DaytonThe Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame: $350,000 · EducationThe Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre D…PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $350,000 · EducationPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGECENTRE COLLEGE: $350,000 · EducationCENTRE COLLEGEST FRANCIS COLLEGE: $300,000 · EducationST FRANCIS COLLEGESYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 · Education+1 more: $20,000 · EducationUniversity of Michigan: $945,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $350,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HI…The Ohio State University: $350,000 · OtherThe Ohio State UniversityUniversity of California Riverside: $350,000 · OtherUniversity of California RiversideWorld Train Center Performing Arts Center: $166,667 · OtherWorld Train Center Performing Arts CenterQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $166,666 · OtherQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC+3 more: $125,000 · OtherTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $750,105 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN IN…BROWN UNIVERSITY: $450,000 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $100,000 · InternationalPROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $50,000 · HealthPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureJH ISRAEL: $10,000 · Religion
Education$2,770,000Other$2,453,333Social Science$750,105Community Improvement$450,000International$100,000Health$50,000Arts & Culture$50,000Religion$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Michigan: $945,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $750,105 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $450,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $350,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $350,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $350,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame: $350,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $350,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRE COLLEGE: $350,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST FRANCIS COLLEGE: $300,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $166,666 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCornell University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJH ISRAEL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wilpon Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wilpon Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Wilpon Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Wilpon Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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