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E Craig Wall Sr Foundation at a glance

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E Craig Wall Sr Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$63k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$391kPhilanthropy$85kHealth$26kEnvironment$20kReligion$13kHuman Services$2kRecreation & Sports$2kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$25,721
NORTH CAROLINA BOTANICAL GARDEN$10,272
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
WOODS CHARTER SCHOOL$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA -CH LINEBERGER COMPREHENSIVE CARE$5,000
BOOK HARVEST$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PARENTS FUND$3,871
THE BELLE W BARUCH FOUNDATION HOBCAW BARONY$2,500
UNITED WAY OF HORRY COUNTY$871
BLACK RIVER UNITED WAY$500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF GREENSBORO NC: $250 → 16%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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$171k · 8 repeat orgs$368k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
14

Total granted

$171k
$353k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+19%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 DevelopmentPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHealthHuman 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

  • CE
    COASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $67k · revenue +30%
  • BS
    BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $48k · revenue +41%
  • Davidson College
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • DC
    DAVIDSON COLLEGE - E CRAIG WALL JR ACADEMIC CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $250k
  • SC
    SPARTANBURG COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $79k
  • UP
    UNIVERSITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
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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4
Brevard College Corporation

Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.

Education
5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
7
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
8
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
9
Charlotte Country Day School

Through excellence in education, charlotte country day school develops the potential of each student by fostering intellectual curiosity, principled character, ethical leadership and a responsibility to serve. the key values and…

Education
10
Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School

We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.

—
11
Goldey-Beacom College

Empowering learners to achieve excellence by linking knowledge to practice.

Education
12
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Boys' Club of New York; the most unlike its peers is JBs Celebration Park 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

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 26 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DAVIDSON COLLEGE - E CRAIG WALL JR ACADEMIC CENTER: $250,000 · OtherDAVIDSON COLLEGE - E CRAIG WALL JR ACADEMIC CENTERSPARTANBURG COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $79,026 · OtherSPARTANBURG COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONCOASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $67,260 · OtherCOASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONNORTH CAROLINA BOTANICAL GARDEN: $19,805 · Other+9 more: $45,787 · Other+9 moreBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $47,500 · EducationBRUNSWICK SCHOO…Davidson College: $10,000 · EducationDavidson Colleg…WOODS CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationWOODS CHARTER S…MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationMEDICAL COLLEGE…BOOK HARVEST: $4,000 · EducationBOOK HARVESTUNITED WAY OF HORRY COUNTY INC: $1,871 · PhilanthropyBLACK RIVER UNITED WAY INC: $500 · PhilanthropySHOOTING TOUCH INC: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsJBs Celebration Park Inc: $543 · Recreation & SportsTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK: $827 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE GRAND STRAND INC: $250 · Youth DevelopmentAUTHORACARE COLLECTIVE: $250 · Human ServicesAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $250 · Health
Other$461,878Education$71,500Philanthropy$2,371Recreation & Sports$1,543Youth Development$1,077Human Services$250Health$250

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 budgetCOASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $67,260 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $47,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDavidson College: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOODS CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOOK HARVEST: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HORRY COUNTY INC: $1,871 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHOOTING TOUCH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK: $827 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJBs Celebration Park Inc: $543 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBLACK RIVER UNITED WAY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUTHORACARE COLLECTIVE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE GRAND STRAND INC: $250 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.

Waccamaw Community Fo…Duke Energy FoundationDominion Energy Chari…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Waccamaw Community FoundationSC15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waccamaw Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 E Craig Wall Sr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from E Craig Wall Sr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to E Craig Wall Sr Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to E Craig Wall Sr Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 26 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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