· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 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 +116% since the first grant, against +67% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HHopeWest2× · 2018–2019 · $110k · revenue +116%
- 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%
- CWCOLORADO WEST REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH INCone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +4%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADOone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +22%
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.
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.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 36 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 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 ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO ↗
- Who funds PARTNER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds The Art Center of Western Colorado Inc ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WEST REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds The Little Flower Inc ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wilson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wilson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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