North Carolina · Private foundation
Wilson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $61k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 57
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Wilson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $60k | 72% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $29k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $3k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $20k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 57 | $114k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diakonos Inc | $17,500 | 3 | 0% |
| United Way of Iredell County Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Penland School Of Craft | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Piedmont Inc | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Feednc | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Homes of Nc Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Iredell County Economic Development Corporation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nc State University | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hospice of Iredell County Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($128k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wilson Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Wilson Foundation
- How much does Wilson Foundation give?
- Wilson Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $60,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 57 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Wilson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (35%), Human Services (17%), Education (9%).
- Who are Wilson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Diakonos Inc ($18k), United Way of Iredell County Inc ($12k), Penland School Of Craft ($10k).
- Does Wilson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wilson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wilson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, The Cannon Foundation Inc, Duke Energy Foundation.
- Where is Wilson Foundation based?
- Wilson Foundation is based in NC.
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