How much does Mark B Wallner Foundation give?

Mark B Wallner Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $47,461 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Mark B Wallner Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (18%), Philanthropy (12%), Public Benefit (12%).

Who are Mark B Wallner Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Goodie Two Shoes Foundation Inc ($17k), Three Square ($12k), Best Friends Animal Society ($7k).

Does Mark B Wallner Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Mark B Wallner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Mark B Wallner Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wynn Resorts Foundation, Farrell Family Foundation, Nevada Community Foundation Inc.

Where is Mark B Wallner Foundation based?

Mark B Wallner Foundation is based in NV.

Mark B Wallner Foundation

Mark B Wallner Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Mark B Wallner 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.

$47k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$12k

Largest

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.

Animals$27kPhilanthropy$18kPublic Benefit$18kEducation$14kFood & Nutrition$13kHousing & Shelter$12kHuman Services$10kHealth$10kOther$0

02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k27 grants · $35k
$10k–50k1 grant · $12k

$1,100

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GOODIE TWO SHOES FOUNDATION	$12,134
JUDICIALWATCH	$3,600
THREE SQUARE FOOD BANK	$3,200
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION	$3,100
PAWS FOR LIFE UTAH	$2,500
AMERICAN MAJORITY	$2,500
PROJECT 150	$2,500
THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION	$2,200
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY	$2,000
CITY MISSION OF LAS VEGAS	$1,600
SAFENEST	$1,500
Individual grant recipient	$1,200
LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION	$1,100
TURNING POINT USA	$1,100
PEACEFUL VALLEY DONKEY RESCUE	$1,100

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Mark B Wallner Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 51% of the giving stays in NV; by stated purpose, 46%.

Mark B Wallner Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$123k · 60 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$123k

$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+18%

Still filing today

70%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthEducationPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther

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

GT
GOODIE TWO SHOES FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +15%
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THREE SQUARE
9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +9%
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +31%

Funded once

BUILDON INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +39%
NH
NEW HORIZONS CENTER FOR LEARNING INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +88%
OS
Oklahoma State University Foundation
one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +12%

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.

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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United Animal Nations Dba Redrover

To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…

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Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals

Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals

Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals

Nevada Humane Society

To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.

Animals

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International

Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ace Hardware Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 108 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

72/72

Grantees still filing

57/72

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$48,681Animals$24,215Philanthropy$23,199Public Benefit$15,936Human Services$12,900Food & Nutrition$12,400Health$8,714

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.

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.

Wynn Resorts FoundationNV19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wynn Resorts Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Mgm Resorts Foundation · The Moonridge Foundation · Mondays Dark · Engelstad Family Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Sempra Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Marilyn Tobman Moran Family Foundation · The Si Redd & Tamara Redd Charitable 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 Mark B Wallner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mark B Wallner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The camps

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By state

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