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Gary and Wanda Walsh Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$151k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
12%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 20
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$3.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations Gary and Wanda Walsh Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$151k7%
FY202317$97k12%
FY202218$106k39%
FY202120$80k55%
FY202012$79k0%
FY201913$72kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$150kHealth$139kReligion$134kEducation$45kEnvironment$43kArts & Culture$34kYouth Development$25kHousing & Shelter$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Island Stewards$43,0006n/a
Children's Discovery Foundation$33,00061%
1736 Family Crisis Center$29,00060%
Orcas Island Childrens House$25,00032%
Four Winds$17,50030%
Camp Korey$8,00020%
Community Youth Center$7,90030%
Women in Need Inc$5,50030%
Ach Child and Family Services$5,50030%
The Family Place$2,20020%
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All grantees of Gary and Wanda Walsh Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Island Stewards$43,0006n/a
Children's Discovery Foundation$33,00061%
1736 Family Crisis Center$29,00060%
Orcas Island Childrens House$25,00032%
Four Winds$17,50030%
Camp Korey$8,00020%
Community Youth Center$7,90030%
Women in Need Inc$5,50030%
Ach Child and Family Services$5,50030%
The Family Place$2,20020%
Sammys House$2,20020%
A Stepping Stone Foundation$1,10010%
Old Dog Haven$1,00010%
IF By Innergy$1,0001n/a
Outdoors for all Foundation$1,00010%
Los Angeles House of Ruth$1,00010%
Page Ahead Childrens Literacy Prgm$1,00010%
The Lovejoy Foundation Inc$1,00010%

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($399k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gary and Wanda Walsh Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Discovery Foundation: $33,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budget1736 Family Crisis Center: $29,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOrcas Island Childrens House: $25,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFour Winds: $17,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCamp Korey: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Youth Center: $7,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWomen in Need Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAch Child and Family Services: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Place: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSammys House: $2,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA Stepping Stone Foundation: $1,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOld Dog Haven: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOutdoors for all Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles House of Ruth: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPage Ahead Childrens Literacy Prgm: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Lovejoy Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Seattle FoundationWA18.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · School's Out Washington · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Gary and Wanda Walsh Family Foundation

How much does Gary and Wanda Walsh Family Foundation give?
Gary and Wanda Walsh Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $150,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Gary and Wanda Walsh Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (26%), Health (24%), Religion (23%).
Who are Gary and Wanda Walsh Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Island Stewards ($43k), Children's Discovery Foundation ($33k), 1736 Family Crisis Center ($29k).
Does Gary and Wanda Walsh Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gary and Wanda Walsh Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gary and Wanda Walsh Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, School's Out Washington.
Where is Gary and Wanda Walsh Family Foundation based?
Gary and Wanda Walsh Family Foundation is based in WY.

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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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