· Private foundation
Wilson Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Western Colo Community Found | $25,000 |
| Grand Valley Catholic Outreach | $10,000 |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $10,000 |
| Meals on Wheels | $10,000 |
| Marillac Health | $10,000 |
| Community Food Bank | $10,000 |
| Kids Aid | $10,000 |
| Clifton Christian Church | $10,000 |
| Colorado West Land Trust | $5,000 |
| Habitat For Humanity Of Mesa County | $5,000 |
| Latimer House | $5,000 |
| Western Colo Center For The Arts | $2,500 |
| Energy Outreach Colorado | $1,000 |
| Riverside Education Center | $1,000 |
| Partners | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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 +106% since the first grant, against +67% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- HHopeWest2× · 2018–2019 · $110k · revenue +88%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK8× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +310%
- KAKIDS AID KIDS AID8× · 2018–2025 · $38k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- TAThe Art Center of Western Colorado Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +72%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADOone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +22%
- CWCOLORADO WEST REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH INCone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +4%
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.
Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.
We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
The mission of the grand junction economic partnership is to generate high quality economic development by attracting business and quality jobs to mesa county, colorado.
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
To help rural providers with collaborative solutions and resources focusing on rural healthcare.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
To restore water to colorado's rivers.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Valley Catholic Outreach Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Little Flower Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 36 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 HopeWest ↗
- Who funds WESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds KIDS AID KIDS AID ↗
- Who funds GRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MESA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MARILLAC CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARTNER INC ↗
- Who funds ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds The Art Center of Western Colorado Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WEST REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds The Little Flower Inc ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Goodwin Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · United Way of Mesa County Inc · St Mary's Hospital & Medical Center Inc · Bacon Family Foundation · International Association of Lions 3602 · The Colorado Trust · Anschutz Family Foundation · Gates Family 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 Wilson 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.