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Doris D and C Allen Wall Family Foundation at a glance

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Doris D and C Allen Wall Family 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.

$707k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$320k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.3MCommunity Improvement$168kPhilanthropy$152kEnvironment$150kHealth$130kYouth Development$82kHuman Services$26kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $64k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+2 grants · $570k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO$320,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SCHOOL$250,000
V FOUNDATION$50,000
DOWN SYNDROME CONNECTION BAY AREA$32,500
SEABISCUIT HERITAGE FOUNDATION$11,000
TO CELEBRATE LIFE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION$10,000
FAMILY AID CATHOLIC EDUCATION$10,000
MUSEUM OF SONOMA COUNTY$7,500
SANTA TIM$6,000
YWCA$5,400
ROGER JENNINGS DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 26% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARC MINNESOTA: $10k → 14%DOWN SYNDROME CONNECTION BAY AREA: $33k → 9%FAMILY AID CATHOLIC EDUCATION: $10k → 9%BAY AREA MAKE-A-WISH: $12k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO: $320k → 10%SEABISCUIT HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $11k → 18%NAPLES CHILDREN & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%FIRST TEE: $5k → 13%ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $200k → 21%ROGER JENNINGS DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $5k → 14%EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION: $15k → 23%DOWN SYNDROME CONNECTION BAY AREA: $30k → 9%MUSEUM OF SONOMA COUNTY: $8k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO: $320k → 10%ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $200k → 21%ROGER JENNINGS DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $5k → 14%EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION: $12k → 23%MUSEUM OF SONOMA COUNTY: $5k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO: $250k → 10%V FOUNDATION: $70k → 21%EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION: $10k → 23%DOWN SYNDROME NORTH BAY: $25k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO: $200k → 10%V FOUNDATION: $50k → 21%DOWN SYNDROME NORTH BAY: $20k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO: $100k → 10%V FOUNDATION: $35k → 21%PEPPERWOOD PRESERVE: $10k → 9%ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP: $10k → 10%V FOUNDATION: $25k → 21%DOWN SYNDROME NORTH BAY: $10k → 9%SCHOOLS OF THE SACRED HEART: $10k → 10%PEPPERWOOD PRESERVE: $10k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SCHOOL: $250k → 10%RUSSIAN RIVERKEEPER: $10k → 9%SCHOOLS OF THE SACRED HEART: $10k → 10%HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%CORAZON: $9k → 9%THE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION: $35k → 9%SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION: $29k → 9%SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION: $29k → 9%SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%SONOMA COUNTY CHILDREN'S CHARITY INC: $10k → 9%SONOMA COUNTY CHILDREN'S CHARITY INC: $10k → 9%SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $25k → 9%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 21% of Doris D and C Allen Wall Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Doris D and C Allen Wall Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 14 repeat orgs$512k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
10

Total granted

$2.2M
$231k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+19%

Still filing today

57%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHealthHuman ServicesOther
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 LOUIS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $400k · revenue +18%
  • SC
    SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $168k · revenue +41%
  • TE
    THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $37k · revenue +254%

Funded once

  • MO
    MARIN OPEN SPACE TRUST
    one grant, 2024 · $120k · revenue -91%
  • SA
    SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -47%
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.

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Sonoma Botanical Garden
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2
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation

To benefit the university of california santa cruz.

Education
3
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
4
The University Foundation At Sacramento State

Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…

Education
5
San Francisco State University Foundation

The foundation is formed for the following specific purposes: (a) to develop and increase the facilities of san francisco state university ("sfsu") for broader educational opportunities and service to students, alumni, and the citizens of…

Education
6
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
7
Solano Community Foundation

The Solano Community Foundation strengthens Solano County by advancing equity, supporting nonprofit resilience, and expanding access to philanthropy. We serve as a community leader, responsive grantmaker, and trusted partner for donors who…

Philanthropy
8
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
9
San Jose State University Research Foundation

As an integral member of the san jose state university community, the san jose state university research foundation provides an entrepreneurial framework through which local, state and federal agencies, businesses and private foundations…

Education
10
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.

Education
11
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
12
Sacramento Region Community Foundation

The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of San Francisco; the most unlike its peers is Santa Tim. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of San Francisco: $1,190,000 · EducationUniversity of San FranciscoST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $400,000 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSITY+1 more: $20,000 · EducationST VINCENT DE PAUL SCHOOL: $250,000 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAUL SCHOOLV FOUNDATION: $180,000 · OtherV FOUNDATIONDOWN SYNDROME CONNECTION BAY AREA: $62,500 · OtherDOWN SYNDROME CONNECTION BAY …DOWN SYNDROME NORTH BAY: $55,000 · OtherDOWN SYNDROME NORTH BAYHEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherSOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $25,000 · Other+11 more: $110,400 · Other+11 moreSONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION: $167,500 · Community ImprovementMARIN OPEN SPACE TRUST: $120,000 · EnvironmentPEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EnvironmentRussian Riverkeeper: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION: $37,000 · PhilanthropyROGER JENNINGS DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $16,500 · PhilanthropyNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropySONOMA COUNTY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsMUSEUM OF SONOMA COUNTY: $12,500 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,610,000Other$707,900Community Improvement$167,500Environment$150,000Philanthropy$63,500Recreation & Sports$20,000Arts & Culture$12,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $1,190,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $400,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION: $167,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetMARIN OPEN SPACE TRUST: $120,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION: $37,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetROGER JENNINGS DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $16,500 over 4y, 23% of budgetMUSEUM OF SONOMA COUNTY: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRussian Riverkeeper: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC MINNESOTA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORAZON INC: $8,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSANTA TIM: $6,000 over 1y, 9.0% 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 University of San Francisco ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARIN OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SONOMA COUNTY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds PEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROGER JENNINGS DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF SONOMA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Russian Riverkeeper ↗
  • Who funds TO CELEBRATE LIFE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC MINNESOTA INC ↗
  • Who funds CORAZON INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA TIM ↗

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.

Sonoma County Communi…The Foley Family Char…Sonoma County Vintner…Marin Community Found…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · The Foley Family Charitable Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Doris D and C Allen Wall Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Doris D and C Allen Wall Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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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