How much did CLARA AND ART BALD TRUST grant in FY2024?

Philanthropy$2.8MArts & Culture$41kHealth$37kFood & Nutrition$28kCommunity Improvement$24kYouth Development$19kEnvironment$16kHuman Services$15kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$505k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

educationvalley

2019

educationvalley

2020

blue mtntheatrelittlemuseummusiceducation

2021

theatremuseumchildren'seducationtouchetscholarships

2022

valleytoucheteducation

2023

valley givinggiving guideeducation

2024

endowmenttheatrescholarships

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k21 grants · $69k
$10k–50k1 grant · $21k
$250k+1 grant · $2.6M

$3,500

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,629,629
BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$21,024
TRI STATE STEELHEADERS$6,500
WALLA WALLA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$5,000
TOUCHET EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$4,500
FORT WALLA WALLA MUSEUM$4,500
CITY OF WALLA WALLA$4,000
ST FRANCIS CABRINI$3,665
CAMPFIRE$3,500
ST BASIL ACADEMY$3,500
COMMUNITY COUNCIL$3,500
TRILOGY RECOVERY COMMUNITY$3,500
EARLY LIFE SPEECH & LANGUAGE$3,000
BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL$3,000
FRIENDS OF CHILDREN OF WALLA WALLA$3,000

02The need

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 (FY17–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.5M · 56 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

56 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.5M

$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+14%

Still filing today

30%

17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther

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

BM
BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
4× · 2021–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +501%
BM
BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL
6× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +100%
TR
TRILOGY RECOVERY COMMUNITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +19%

Funded once

WW
WALLA WALLA PICKLEBALL ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -25%
CO
CAMPFIRE OF WALLA WALLA
one grant, 2023 · $4k
PL
PACIFIC LITTLE LEAGUE
one grant, 2020 · $3k

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.

Walla Walla Alliance for the Homeless

Our mission is to provide safe/secure low-barrier shelter and food to any adult in need in the Walla Walla region. Our hope is to build upon this foundation to stabilize people's lives while helping them to become self-sufficient. We do…

Housing & Shelter

Wallowa Land Trust

Our mission is to protect the rural nature of Wallowa County by working cooperatively with private landowners,indigenous people, local communities and governmental entities to conserve land.

Environment

Walla Walla Basin Watershed Foundation

The mission of the walla walla basin watershed council is to protect the resources of the walla walla watershed, deal with issues in advance of resource degredation and enhance the overall health of the watershed, while also protecting as…

Environment

Walla Walla Symphony Society Inc

The Walla Walla Symphony delights and challenges our community by providing live orchestral performances and opportunities for leaning about music.

Arts & Culture

Walla Walla Senior Citizens Center

To provide services and assistance to senior citizens

Human Services

Walla Walla Valley Chamber of Commerce

Foster vibrant economic environment thru community & business advocacy,education & services.

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Whatcom Land Trust

Protecting the rich and vibrant lands for a healthy, thriving Whatcom County for generations to come.

Environment

Washington Wildlife & Recreation

Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.

—

Fort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla

To deepen the sense of community within the walla walla region by safekeeping the past, informing the present, and shaping our future.

—

Wallowa Resources Inc

To invest in people and the land and strengthen the rural way of life in Wallowa County, Oregon

Arts & Culture

Whitman County Historical Society

Preservation of history in Whitman County

Arts & Culture

Walla Walla Summer Theater Studios

Our mission is to transform the Fort Walla Walla Amphitheater into a nationally recognized regional theater, while enhancing the cultural identity of Walla Walla through locally produced performing arts events and accessible educational…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Mountain Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Trilogy Recovery Community. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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 5% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/27

the rest of the field

20/382

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

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/21

Grantees still filing

16/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$2,844,875Other$540,690Arts & Culture$40,500Health$37,000Food & Nutrition$28,000Community Improvement$24,000Youth Development$19,000

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

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.

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.

Blue Mountain Community FoundationWA63.2× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Mountain Community Foundation · Mary Garner Esary Trust · Sherwood Trust · Estate of Joseph L Stubblefield · George T Welch Testamentary Trust · Yancey P Winans Testamentary Trust · United Way of the Blue Mountains · Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation · The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation · Cape Flattery Foundation · Wells Charitable Trust · Artsfund

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 organisation CLARA AND ART BALD TRUST 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely 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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 911250104 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 20% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Clara and Art Bald Trust?

Find your warmest path to Clara and Art Bald Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CLARA AND ART BALD TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Clara and Art Bald Trust?

More from the funding graph

CLARA AND ART BALD TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Clara and Art Bald Trust?

More from the funding graph