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Wilson Sheehan Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
79
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$19MRecreation & Sports$16MInternational$4.0MHuman Services$2.3MEmployment$1.7MHealth$1.7MYouth Development$1.5MArts & Culture$1.5MOther$0
02FY2025 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $661k
  • $50k–250k30 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+8 grants · $7.4M
$37,500
Median grant
23
States reached
$66M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$4,000,000
THE DREXEL FUNDS (DBA THE DREXEL FUND)$1,275,635
WORLD VISION$500,000
MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT$333,334
PER SCHOLAS$333,333
ROCKING HORSE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$315,533
PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS$300,000
CORNER TO CORNER$300,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA$207,573
CRISTO REY NETWORK$190,881
THE OAKS ACADEMY$175,000
CENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN (GEN JUSTICE)$170,000
WELLSPRING$162,500
ST JOSEPH FINANCIAL SERVICES INC$125,000
BETTER TOGETHER$120,000
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 (FY20–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEKIMA PLACE INC: $28k → 11%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $20k → 10%HOUR CHILDREN INC: $40k → 13%BETTER TOGETHER: $120k → 10%CORNER TO CORNER: $300k → 14%FOSTER CARE ALLIANCE: $75k → 13%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $15k → 16%THE BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $325k → 4%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $50k → 10%BRIDGES FROM SCHOOL TO WORK: $50k → 8%JEFFS PLACE: $60k → 8%HEKIMA PLACE INC: $10k → 11%HOUR CHILDREN INC: $40k → 13%BETTER TOGETHER: $50k → 10%CORNER TO CORNER: $75k → 14%CHOOSING HOPE ADOPTIONS: $140k → 15%THE BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $50k → 4%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $50k → 10%BRIDGES FROM SCHOOL TO WORK: $50k → 8%HEKIMA PLACE INC: $5k → 11%HOUR CHILDREN INC: $40k → 13%CORNER TO CORNER: $75k → 14%HOUR CHILDREN INC: $20k → 13%CHOOSING HOPE ADOPTIONS: $105k → 15%THE BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $35k → 4%THE BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $25k → 4%THE BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $25k → 4%PAJAMA PROGRAM INC: $15k → 17%CHOOSING HOPE ADOPTIONS: $43k → 15%CHOOSING HOPE ADOPTIONS: $35k → 15%PROJECT WOMAN OF OHIO: $30k → 15%CHOOSING HOPE ADOPTIONS: $18k → 15%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $38k → 15%HOME FOR FAMILIES: $38k → 15%THINK TANK INC: $15k → 15%ST VINCENT DE PAUL THRIFT CENTER: $25k → 15%OIC OF CLARK COUNTY: $50k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SOUTHWESTERN OHIO: $50k → 15%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Wilson Sheehan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Wilson Sheehan Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 28% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$30M · 86 repeat orgs$4.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

86 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
61

Total granted

$30M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+5%

Still filing today

73%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TC
    The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame
    4× · 2021–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +15%
  • CR
    CRISTO REY NETWORK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +66%
  • RH
    ROCKING HORSE CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -38%
  • MU
    Marian University
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +14%
  • GE
    GOODWILL EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +24%

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.

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Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
2
Onegoal

Onegoal (the organization") is a nonprofit organization incorporated on june 13, 2003 to provide underserved students with the resources, support, and network to earn a postsecondary degree.

Youth Development
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
5
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.

Education
6
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
7
Collegespring Inc

In partnership with educators, CollegeSpring helps students impacted by poverty demonstrate their full potential on college and career readiness assessments that unlock better opportunities after high school. Our vision is that every…

Education
8
Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services
9
Partners in School Innovation

To transform teaching and learning in the lowest-performing public schools so that every student, regardless of background, thrives.

Philanthropy
10
Teenworks Inc

To empower teens to achieve excellence in college, career, and community.

Employment
11
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
12
Open Campus Media Inc

Higher education shapes the future of every community in america-determining who moves up the economic ladder, where good jobs develop, and how regions prosper. this promise depends on the public's ability to see and understand how their…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Drexel Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesCommunity Food PantriesIndependent K-12 SchoolsSchool District FoundationsElementary Literacy TutoringPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Sports ProgramsCancer Support ServicesYouth Development CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Youth Development ServicesLocal History MuseumsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Pregnancy Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/129
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,436

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.

05the grantee network

124 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. 124 of the 182 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
120/124
Grantees still filing
72/124
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Notre Dame du Lac — $16,000,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacThe Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame — $5,000,000 · EducationThe Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre DameCRISTO REY NETWORK — $2,992,728 · EducationCRISTO REY NETWORKTHE DREXEL FUND — $2,760,561 · EducationTHE DREXEL FUNDTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC — $1,000,000 · Education+21 more — $1,988,000 · Education+21 moreTHE DREXEL FUNDS (DBA THE DREXEL FUND) — $2,373,468 · OtherTHE DREXEL FUNDS (DBA THE DR…CATHOLIC CENTRAL JRSR HIGH SCHOOL — $956,035 · OtherCATHOLIC CENTRAL JRSR HIGH S…PER SCHOLAS — $691,667 · OtherWELLSPRING — $670,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $625,000 · OtherStand Together Foundation — $1,050,000 · OtherStand Together Foundation+110 more — $7,334,370 · Other+110 moreWORLD VISION INC — $2,800,000 · InternationalONE ACRE FUND — $675,000 · International+2 more — $50,000 · InternationalBLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT — $460,000 · Human ServicesCorner To Corner — $450,000 · Human ServicesCHOOSING HOPE ADOPTIONS INC — $340,796 · Human ServicesBETTER TOGETHER — $170,000 · Human ServicesHOUR CHILDREN INC — $140,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of Northern Nevada — $100,000 · Human ServicesBridges from School to Work Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesMOTHERS ADVOCACY PROJECT INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Human Services+11 more — $324,000 · Human ServicesROCKING HORSE CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER — $1,483,800 · Health+5 more — $80,000 · HealthPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS — $960,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC — $333,334 · Philanthropy+6 more — $105,500 · PhilanthropyPER SCHOLAS INC — $1,133,333 · EmploymentSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC — $250,000 · Employment
Education$29,741,289Other$13,701,040International$3,525,000Human Services$2,234,796Health$1,563,800Philanthropy$1,398,834Employment$1,383,333

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $16,000,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame — $5,000,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCRISTO REY NETWORK — $2,992,728 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $2,800,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DREXEL FUND — $2,760,561 over 3y, 30% of budgetROCKING HORSE CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER — $1,483,800 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC — $1,133,333 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetStand Together Foundation — $1,050,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS — $960,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetONE ACRE FUND — $675,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWELLSPRING — $670,500 over 5y, 23% of budgetThe Oaks Academy Inc — $525,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT — $460,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetCorner To Corner — $450,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetCHOOSING HOPE ADOPTIONS INC — $340,796 over 5y, 30% of budgetTHE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC — $333,334 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC — $301,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMarian University — $300,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORWALKSTAMFORD GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC — $260,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC — $250,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGOODWILL EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN — $250,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetTHREAD INC — $225,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetRULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC — $223,455 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC — $210,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetZELIE'S HOME — $186,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetOHIO TRI COUNTY FOOD ALLIANCE DBA SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $177,422 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION OF SPRINGFIELD-CLARK COUNTY — $173,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetSPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART — $165,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetLife Network of Southwest Florida Inc — $151,000 over 3y, 57% of budgetON-THE-RISE — $150,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC — $150,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMATHILE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN NUTRITION — $150,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOUR CHILDREN INC — $140,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GO PROJECT INC — $135,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetST JOSEPH FINANCIAL SERVICES — $125,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFUGEES FAMILY INC — $125,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC — $125,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VICTORY PROJECT LLC — $115,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $115,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of Northern Nevada — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOME TO BELIEVE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetBridges from School to Work Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame ↗
  • Who funds CRISTO REY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DREXEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds ROCKING HORSE CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Stand Together Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING ↗
  • Who funds The Oaks Academy Inc ↗
  • Who funds BLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT ↗
  • Who funds Corner To Corner ↗
  • Who funds CHOOSING HOPE ADOPTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Marian University ↗
  • Who funds NORWALKSTAMFORD GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds THREAD INC ↗
  • Who funds RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC ↗
  • Who funds MINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds ZELIE'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds OHIO TRI COUNTY FOOD ALLIANCE DBA SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION OF SPRINGFIELD-CLARK COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BETTER TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART ↗

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.

The Springfield Found…Community Hospital He…Della Selsor Tr UwDayton Foundation Dep…Harry and Violet Turn…The Dayton FoundationCrabill Family Founda…The United Way of Cla…Columbus FoundationPark National Corpora…Walter S Quinlan Foun…Mathile Family Founda…
The Springfield FoundationOH48.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Springfield Foundation · Community Hospital Health Services Foundation · Della Selsor Tr Uw · Dayton Foundation Depository · Harry and Violet Turner 95 Charitable Trust · The Dayton Foundation · Crabill Family Foundation · The United Way of Clark Champaign & Madison Counties Inc · Columbus Foundation · Park National Corporation Foundation · Walter S Quinlan Foundation · Mathile Family Foundation

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 Sheehan 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Five Points Center for the Visual Arts Inc — 75% of income from government
  • Bridges from School to Work Inc — 33% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
  • West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Banner Lake Club Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Sheehan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wilson Sheehan 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 182 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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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