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Wilson-Oconnor Family Foundation at a glance

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Wilson-Oconnor 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.

$4.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.4MInternational$2.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.0MHealth$950kEducation$892kHuman Services$750kArts & Culture$721kPublic Benefit$400k
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.0M
$100,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$92M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE$1,000,000
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$691,750
SAVE THE CHILDREN$600,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS CO CDS GLOBAL$250,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$250,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH$250,000
PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT$200,000
NORWICH COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE$150,000
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE MUSEUM$121,090
THE DYSLEXIA FOUNDATION INC$100,000
INTERNATIONAL DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION$100,000
FRIENDS OF THE NEW DURHAM 1772 MEETINGHOUSE$100,000
TOWN OF LEICESTER$100,000
NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY$100,000
MARY AND ELIZA FREEMAN CENTER FOR HISTORY AND COMMUNITY$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHICAGO SKY CARES: $100k → 14%CHICAGO SKY CARES: $100k → 14%MARY AND ELIZA FREEMAN CENTER FOR HISTORY AND COMMUNITY: $100k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
CT
RI
MD
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 32% of Wilson-Oconnor Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Wilson-Oconnor Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 8 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$4.2M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+30%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEducationPhilanthropyHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1.6M · revenue 0%
  • CR
    CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $500k
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS CO CDS GLOBAL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $500k

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue -75%
  • BG
    BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue +30%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Foreign Policy Association Inc

The mission of the foreign policy association today, as it has been for over 100 years, is to serve as a catalyst for developing awareness, understanding, and informed opinion on united states foreign policy and global issues. through its…

International
2
New England Historic Genealogical Society

New england historic genealogical society's mission is to advance the study of family history in america and beyond. we educate, inspire, and connect people through our scholarship, collections, and expertise. we conduct business under the…

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3
Council of Independent Colleges

The council of independent colleges is an association of nonprofit independent colleges and universities, state- based councils of independent colleges, and other higher education affiliates, that works to support college and university…

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4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
6
Fisk University

Fisk university produces graduates from diverse backgrounds with the integrity and intellect required for substantive contributions to society. our curriculum is grounded in the liberal arts. our faculty and administrators emphasize the…

Education
7
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
The Rhode Island Historical Society

The rhode island historical society, through its collections, museums, and educational initiatives, welcomes everyone to engage with rhode island's complex and significant past.

Arts & Culture
11
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
12
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund; the most unlike its peers is Drexel University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 22 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
4/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $2,350,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABL…MASCOMA VALLEY PRESERVATION: $100,000 · Community ImprovementSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,600,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federat…HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $500,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INCCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $500,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESAMERICAN RED CROSS CO CDS GLOBAL: $500,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS CO CD…INTERNATIONAL DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 · OtherLEICESTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $100,000 · OtherThe Dyslexia Foundation Inc: $350,000 · OtherThe Dyslexia Foundation …PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $300,000 · OtherPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJEC…+2 more: $100,000 · OtherDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $691,750 · EducationDREXEL UNIV…FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · EducationFITCHBURG S…FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS O…CHICAGO SKY CARES: $200,000 · Human ServicesCHICAGO S…MARY AND ELIZA FREEMAN CENTER FOR HISTORY AND COMMUNITY: $100,000 · Human ServicesMARY AND …BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyNorwich Community Collaborative Inc: $150,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN INDEPENDENCE CENTER: $121,090 · Arts & CultureNEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE NEW DURHAM 1772 MEETINGHOUSE: $100,000 · Arts & Culture
Community Improvement$2,450,000International$2,100,000Other$1,950,000Education$891,750Human Services$800,000Philanthropy$500,000Arts & Culture$471,090

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $2,350,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,600,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $691,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $500,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $500,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $500,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetThe Dyslexia Foundation Inc: $350,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCHICAGO SKY CARES: $200,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNorwich Community Collaborative Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetMASCOMA VALLEY PRESERVATION: $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NEW DURHAM 1772 MEETINGHOUSE: $100,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE: $50,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA6.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wilson-Oconnor Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wilson-Oconnor Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Norwich Community Collaborative Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home