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Wilson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROAD STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURC | $15,000 |
| FIFTH STREET MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| IREDELL COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PIEDMONT | $5,000 |
| PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFT | $5,000 |
| MITCHELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| YMCA OF NORTHWEST NC | $2,500 |
| FEED NC | $2,500 |
| ICARE-INC | $2,000 |
| EQUIPPING WITH TRUTH MINISTRIES INC | $1,000 |
| IREDELL COUNTY CROSBY SCHOLARS COMM | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB STATESVILLE4TH CREEK | $900 |
| G4G MINISTRIES INC | $750 |
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 (FY20–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 13 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- BSBROAD STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURC4× · 2021–2025 · $60k
- DIDIAKONOS INC3× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +30%
- PSPenland School Of Craft2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $18k
- UWUnited Way of Iredell County Incone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue -22%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
The mission of wingate university is to develop educated, ethical, and productive global citizens. following its judeo-christian heritage, the university seeks to cultivate the following in its students: knowledge, faith, and service.
Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.
The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
Cisnc's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. cisnc serves as the backbone for its statewide network of 20 independent nonprofit organizations that serve local…
To improve the health and well-being of north carolinians and others whom we serve. we accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
To accept the transfer of assets from the uncg endowment fund and the affiliated foundations, which benefit the university, and to manage the investment of those assets.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Iredell County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brisbane Academy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 76 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 DIAKONOS INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Iredell County Inc ↗
- Who funds Penland School Of Craft ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of the Piedmont Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDNC ↗
- Who funds IREDELL COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF IREDELL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Hebron Colony Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626) ↗
- Who funds Statesville Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ICARE INC ↗
- Who funds Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CANNON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Elder Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds BRISBANE ACADEMY 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: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of Iredell County Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Cashion Family Foundation Inc · The Dale Jr Foundation · The James W Davis Foundation Inc · Robinson-West Family Foundation Tr · Cecile G Ebert Charitable Foundation · Anverse Inc · Reynolds Foundation 186-8803582
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 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.
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