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Wilson 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.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Philanthropy$290kReligion$165kEducation$144kPublic Benefit$119kHuman Services$62kHealth$43kArts & Culture$39kRecreation & Sports$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cozad School Foundation$39,814
Cozad Camping Ministry$25,000
Cozad Child Care$7,000
Individual grant recipient$5,500
Cozad Wellness Center$4,033
Cozad Community Foundation$2,500
Cozad Library Foundation$2,000
Robert Henri Museum$2,000
100th Meridian Museum$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Dawson County Family Partners$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Cozad Food Pantry$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Project Prom$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $333k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Cozad Community Foundation: $250k → 12%COZAD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%Cozad Child Care: $15k → 12%Cozad Child Care: $13k → 12%COZAD CHILD CARE: $7k → 12%Cozad Child Care: $7k → 12%Cozad Community Foundation: $3k → 12%COZAD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%COZAD CHILD CARE: $2k → 12%COZAD CHILD CARE: $2k → 12%Cozad Community Foundation: $2k → 12%COZAD CHILD CARE: $2k → 12%Dawson County Family Partners: $2k → 12%COZAD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%COZAD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$589k · 26 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
37

Total granted

$589k
$110k

Still filing today

19%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CC
    COZAD CHILD CARE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $48k · revenue +63%
  • CD
    Cozad Development Corporation
    4× · 2018–2021 · $23k · revenue +135%
  • RH
    ROBERT HENRI MUSEUM & HISTORICAL WALKWAY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • GP
    GREAT PLAINS UNITED METHODIST CAMP
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $13k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Cozad Development Foundation

To create strategies that enhance economic opportunity and quality of life for cozad residents while ensuring a vibrant framework for the future.

Community Improvement
2
Cozad Public Schools Foundation
3
Covam Community Development Corporation
Human Services
4
Colby Rural Arts Museum Inc
Arts & Culture
5
Cordova Chamber of Commerce

Promote business in the city of cordova, promote cordova to attract outside business

6
Cowlitz County Historical Society

Discovering, preserving and disseminating knowledge about the history of cowlitz county and the state of washington through the maintenance of a historical museum and various community outreach programs.

7
Corydon Community Development

The organization's purpose is to promote the general welfare of business, professional and community interests of the city of corydon.

8
Corazon Latino
Arts & Culture
9
Coweta Chamber of Commerce

Promotion of commerce in the coweta area

10
Samuel D Cozen Memorial Fund
11
Corsicana Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote Corsicana and the surrounding area.

12
Columbia-Marion County Development Foundation Inc
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charitable Fund of Cozad and the most unlike its peers is Robert Henri Museum & Historical Walkway. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 66 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Cozad School Foundation — $121,197 · OtherCozad School FoundationIndividual grant recipient — $40,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOZAD WELLNESS CENTER — $31,320 · OtherCOZAD WELLNESS CENTERGREAT PLAINS UNITED METHODIST CAMP — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherCozad Development Corporation — $22,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $17,183 · OtherCHARITABLE FUND OF COZAD — $16,435 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $16,100 · Other+51 more — $165,161 · Other+51 moreCOZAD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $283,875 · Human ServicesCOZAD COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONCOZAD CHILD CARE — $47,500 · Human ServicesCOZAD CHILD CARE+1 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesCOZAD CAMPING MINISTRY — $150,000 · ReligionCOZAD CAMPING MIN…ROBERT HENRI MUSEUM & HISTORICAL WALKWAY — $18,350 · Arts & CultureCOZAD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $3,850 · Community Improvement
Other$480,646Human Services$332,875Religion$150,000Arts & Culture$18,350Community Improvement$3,850

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOZAD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $283,875 over 7y, 14% of budgetCOZAD CAMPING MINISTRY — $150,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetCOZAD CHILD CARE — $47,500 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetCozad Development Corporation — $22,750 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetROBERT HENRI MUSEUM & HISTORICAL WALKWAY — $18,350 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetCHARITABLE FUND OF COZAD — $16,435 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetCOZAD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $3,850 over 2y, 3.3% of budget
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 COZAD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds COZAD CAMPING MINISTRY
  • Who funds COZAD CHILD CARE
  • Who funds Cozad Development Corporation
  • Who funds ROBERT HENRI MUSEUM & HISTORICAL WALKWAY
  • Who funds CHARITABLE FUND OF COZAD
  • Who funds COZAD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
  • Who funds DAWSON COUNTY FAMILY PARTNERS

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Wilson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Wilson Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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