· Private foundation
Kathleen Walsh Husman 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BERNIE'S BOOK BANK | $50,000 |
| CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS | $10,000 |
| GLENKIRK | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +71% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BBBERNIE'S BOOK BANK7× · 2019–2025 · $99k · revenue +71%
- CFCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +124%
University of Chicago4× · 2017–2021 · $18k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- PCPREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -76%
- CCCook County Forest Preserve Foundatone grant, 2017 · $4k
- LSLAKE SHORE DRIVE SYNAGOGUEone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Big ten academic alliance is a consortium of 18 top-tier research universities, including members of the big ten conference, who collaborate to advance their academic missions, generate unique opportunities for students and faculty, and…
The primary purpose of Berkeley Endowment Management Company ("BEMCO") is to allocate, invest, and manage the general endowment pool of the University of California, Berkeley Foundation ("UCBF").
Bradley university empowers students for immediate and sustained success in their personal and professional endeavors by combining professional preparation, liberal arts and sciences, and co-curricular experiences. alongside our dedication…
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education ("CEE") is a nonprofit public benefit corporation dedicated to promoting and advancing education through its executive education programs for corporate and institutional clients seeking continuing…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The nber conducts unbiased, non-partisan economic research and communicates the findings of that research to academic researchers, policy-makers, and business professionals. (continued on schedule o)
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Invest for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds Glenkirk ↗
- Who funds FORWARD4TOBI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROSQUASH NFP ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kathleen Walsh Husman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kathleen Walsh Husman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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