· Private foundation
Gary and Wanda Walsh Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Holy Name Catholic Church | $30,000 |
| Little Bit | $30,000 |
| Richstone Family Center | $20,000 |
| Step by Step Family Services | $10,000 |
| 1736 Family Crisis Center | $10,000 |
| Orcas Island Children's House | $10,000 |
| Island Stewards | $10,000 |
| Four Winds | $7,500 |
| Children's Discovery Foundation (Funhouse Commons) | $5,000 |
| Sandpipers | $5,000 |
| Community Youth Center | $3,500 |
| Women In Need Inc | $3,300 |
| ACH Child And Family Services | $3,300 |
| Catholic Charity of the Arch of NY | $3,300 |
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 (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 your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Discovery Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Community Youth Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 34 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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Gary and Wanda Walsh Family 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.
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.
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