· Private foundation
Gary and Wanda Walsh Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Little Bit | $30,000 |
| Holy Name Catholic Church | $30,000 |
| Richstone Family Center | $20,000 |
| Orcas Island Children's House | $10,000 |
| Island Stewards | $10,000 |
| Step by Step Family Services | $10,000 |
| 1736 Family Crisis Center | $10,000 |
| Four Winds | $7,500 |
| Sandpipers | $5,000 |
| Children's Discovery Foundation (Funhouse Commons) | $5,000 |
| Community Youth Center | $3,500 |
| ACH Child And Family Services | $3,300 |
| Women In Need Inc | $3,300 |
| Catholic Charity of the Arch of NY | $3,300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CDCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +98%
- 1F1736 FAMILY CRISIS CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $29k · revenue +9%
- OIOrcas Island Childrens House3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- TCThe Children's Houseone grant, 2021 · $6k
- ASA Stepping Stone Foundationone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -23%
- KWKanner Wonsch Luxembourg Foundationone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
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.
A Kids Place exists to provide a safe, developmentally appropriate environment for infant through school age children. Our focus is to provide a stimulating early care & educational experience which promotes each childs social/emotional,
Provide loving home environment, continuity of care, and empowerment of displaced and fragile children.
Striving to create a caring, diverse, nurturing and stimulating child care environment that provides children the opportunity to grow at their own individual pace.
Kids crossing's vision is to provide a safe and caring home for every child. our mission is to strengthen families so they may provide the best care for those children entrusted to them.
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
The Child Development Center is a developmental day center designed to build the independence of exceptional children through high-quality early education and therapeutic services. It serves special needs children ages 2 to 5 from New…
Residential care for children
The Childrens Playhouse builds community by engaging children from birth to age 8 in educational play while offering friendly support to parents and caregivers. It serves as an informal town square for the High Country, a unique place…
Provides family oriented child care for children by promoting physical, emotional, and social development. Fosters intergenerational linkages between children and senior citizens for their mutual benefit
Provide mental health services to promote resiliency, wellness and positive developmental outcomes through prevention, treatment, education and family support for children under the age of 9 who have experienced abuse, neglect and other…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 1736 FAMILY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Orcas Island Childrens House ↗
- Who funds FOUR WINDS ↗
- Who funds CAMP KOREY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds SAMMYS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds A Stepping Stone Foundation ↗
- Who funds OLD DOG HAVEN ↗
- Who funds IF By Innergy ↗
- Who funds Outdoors for all Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM ↗
- Who funds THE LOVEJOY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gary and Wanda Walsh Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gary and Wanda Walsh Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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