· Private foundation
Wilson Thompson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $50,000 |
| WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $32,000 |
| APOLOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH | $11,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| THE GOODMAN THEATER | $5,000 |
| BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| THIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER | $2,500 |
| MISERICORDIA HOME | $1,000 |
| CHICAGO CHAPTER CHARITIES FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ST PAULS CHURCH | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WMWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $37k
- AFAPOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH5× · 2019–2024 · $22k
- MAMt Airy Church of God In Christ3× · 2020–2023 · $10k
Funded once
- WSWayne State Universityone grant, 2022 · $5k
- WMWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -1%
- NINOURISHNYC I INCone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
Title holding company for an exempt organization.
Creating healthy communities - together
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
To support quality emergency care and to promote the interests and values of emergency physicians in the state of michigan.
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The university of minnesota alumni association (umaa) fosters a lifelong spirit of belonging and pride by connecting alumni, students, and friends to the university of minnesota and each other. the alumni association advocates for the…
We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.lumc is a member of loyola university health system and trinity…
We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.
The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds NOURISHNYC I INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHAPTER CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wilson Thompson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wilson Thompson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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