· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $270k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $628k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT | $126,457 |
| ST LEONARD'S MINISTRIES | $95,872 |
| ST LEONARD'S MINISTRIES | $91,452 |
| CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT | $91,452 |
| CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT | $86,189 |
| CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT | $85,437 |
| LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS | $51,142 |
| CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT | $43,950 |
| ST LEONARD'S MINISTRIES | $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 |
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.
Your 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. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SLSt Leonard's Ministries5× · 2018–2025 · $821k · revenue +20%
- LFLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION2× · 2024–2025 · $104k · revenue +112%
- BBBERNIE'S BOOK BANK5× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- RCREVIVE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $51k
- GCGorton Community Centergraduatedone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +164%
- WTWaukegan To College NFPgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +162%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Forest Open Lands Association and 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.
14 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. 14 of the 19 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds St Leonard's Ministries ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds ORPHANS OF THE STORM ↗
- Who funds Ragdale Foundation ↗
- Who funds Gorton Community Center ↗
- Who funds Waukegan To College NFP ↗
- Who funds Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
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
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 David B and Pamela M Waud 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
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.