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705 Walnut Avenue Foundation Inc at a glance

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705 Walnut Avenue Foundation Inc

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.

$175k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$946kCommunity Improvement$70kAnimals$20kArts & Culture$3k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAKE REGION COMMUNITY COLLEGE$50,000
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY$35,000
FRIENDS OF AINE FOUNDATION$25,000
NORTHWEST VISTA COLLEGE$18,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$11,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
VILLA MARIA ACADEMY HS$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $3k → 10%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%VILLA MARIA ACADEMY HS: $25k → 6%ST PATRICK'S DAY: $15k → 10%TEMPLE UNVERSITY: $25k → 22%GENESEO KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%HELPING HOUND DOGS RESCUE: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY - SUNY: $2k → 14%KEUKA COLLEGE: $32k → 15%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%NORTHWEST VISTA COLLEGE: $18k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $11k → 16%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY: $6k → 7%DAKOTA WESLYAN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $10k → 11%FRIENDS OF AINE FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%LAKE REGION COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $50k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAMPSHIRE: $2k → 9%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $20k → 10%FIDELITY INVESTMENTS: $30k → 16%VILLA MARIA ACADEMY HS: $25k → 6%TEMPLE UNVERSITY: $10k → 22%GENESEO KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%Syracuse University: $194k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $2k → 16%MANCHESTER SCHOOL DISTRICT: $20k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $1k → 9%VILLA MARIA ACADEMY HS: $20k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $3k → 22%GENESEO KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%Syracuse University: $103k → 14%VILLA MARIA ACADEMY HS: $10k → 6%Syracuse University: $100k → 14%Syracuse University: $66k → 14%Syracuse University: $65k → 14%Syracuse University: $52k → 14%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $35k → 14%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

NH
NY
MA
SD
PA
RI
CA
MD
DE
SC
DC
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$813k · 5 repeat orgs$376k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +856% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
17

Total granted

$813k
$267k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+856%
+10%

Still filing today

40%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2018–2025 · $615k · revenue +40%
  • VM
    VILLA MARIA ACADEMY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $80k
  • GK
    GENESEO KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +856% · 72% of their budget

Funded once

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +10%
  • TS
    TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k
  • KC
    KEUKA COLLEGE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $32k · revenue +3%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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8
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
9
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Doane University

Doane university creates distinctive educational experiences, immersed in the liberal arts, to prepare our students for careers and lives grounded in inquiry, ethics, and a commitment to lead and serve in the global community.

Education
12
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University; the most unlike its peers is Helping Hounds Dog Rescue Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 29 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)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $615,400 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYKEUKA COLLEGE: $32,000 · Education+8 more: $73,500 · Education+8 moreVILLA MARIA ACADEMY: $80,000 · OtherVILLA MARIA ACADEMYTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITYLAKE REGION COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $50,000 · OtherLAKE REGION COMMUNITY COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFIDELITY INVESTMENTS: $30,000 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTSMANCHESTER SCHOOL DISTRICT: $20,000 · OtherMANCHESTER SCHOOL DISTRICTNORTHWEST VISTA COLLEGE: $18,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $13,000 · Other+6 more: $27,500 · Other+6 moreGENESEO KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF AINE: $25,000 · HealthHELPING HOUNDS DOG RESCUE INC: $10,000 · Animals
Education$770,900Other$338,500Community Improvement$70,000Health$25,000Animals$10,000

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 budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $615,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGENESEO KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 5y, 72% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEUKA COLLEGE: $32,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF AINE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetKula Cares Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HOUNDS DOG RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GENESEO KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds KEUKA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF AINE ↗
  • Who funds Kula Cares Inc ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HOUNDS DOG RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗

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
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 705 Walnut Avenue Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 705 Walnut Avenue Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 29 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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