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David B and Pamela M Waud Foundation at a glance

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David B and Pamela M Waud 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.

$898k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$126k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$1.2MHousing & Shelter$821kEnvironment$364kPhilanthropy$326kHealth$317kYouth Development$90kEducation$70kHuman Services$63kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $270k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $628k
$43,950
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT$126,457
ST LEONARD'S MINISTRIES$95,872
CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT$91,452
ST LEONARD'S MINISTRIES$91,452
CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT$86,189
CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT$85,437
LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS$51,142
ST LEONARD'S MINISTRIES$43,950
CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT$43,950
ST LEONARD'S MINISTRIES$39,626
ORPHAN OF THE STORM$34,867
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$33,338
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$32,295
BERNIES BOOK BANK$25,000
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION$17,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $13k → 8%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 10 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$3.0M
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+162%

Still filing today

70%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureReligionHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • SL
    St Leonard's Ministries
    5× · 2018–2025 · $821k · revenue +20%
  • LF
    LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $104k · revenue +112%
  • BB
    BERNIE'S BOOK BANK
    5× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • RC
    REVIVE CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $51k
  • GC
    Gorton Community Centergraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +164%
  • WT
    Waukegan To College NFPgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +162%
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
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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2
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
4
Washburn University Foundation

The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.

Education
5
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
6
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
7
The University of British Columbia

Pursuing excellence in research learning and engagement to foster global citizenship and advance a sustainable and just society across British Columbia Canada and the world.

Education
8
Minnesota Land Trust

The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.

Environment
9
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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10
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
11
Robert a Toigo Foundation

Our mission is to shape the future of finance by developing leaders whose innovation, investment excellence, and human-centered leadership advance the industry and its adjacent sectors.

Education
12
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Forest Open Lands Association; the most unlike its peers is St Leonard's Ministries. 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

14 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. 14 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $1,238,540 · OtherCHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRITNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $325,809 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $260,299 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE: $237,832 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE+6 more: $127,949 · Other+6 moreSt Leonard's Ministries: $821,275 · ReligionSt Leonard's MinistriesLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $103,893 · EnvironmentBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $80,426 · Youth DevelopmentRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $79,000 · HealthThe Trustees of Princeton University: $45,000 · EducationWaukegan To College NFP: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $50,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,190,429Religion$821,275Environment$103,893Youth Development$90,426Health$79,000Education$65,000Crime & Legal$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Leonard's Ministries: $821,275 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $260,299 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $103,893 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $80,426 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $79,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRagdale Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGorton Community Center: $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWaukegan To College NFP: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

Butler Family Foundat…The Chicago Community…David D & Mary F Grum…The Gorter Family Fou…Woodward Family Chari…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Butler Family FoundationIL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Butler Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · David D & Mary F Grumhaus Fund · The Gorter Family Foundation · Woodward Family Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 David B and Pamela M Waud Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David B and Pamela M Waud Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 19 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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