· Private foundation
Richard F Walshalfred W Ditolla Harold P Spivak Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k51 grants · $149k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA | $10,000 |
| MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND | $5,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO | $5,000 |
| LAFAYETTE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| DEPAUL UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| BROADWAY CARES | $3,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 87% of grant dollars ($1.3M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 13% that went abroad ($190k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 13% of all-years giving ($190k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
63 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 21 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +80%
- MPMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +77%
- BCBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- VCVARIETY-THE CHILDRENS CHARITYone grant, 2017 · $6k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $5k
- MHMATT HUTCHINS CO IATSE LOCAL 600one grant, 2022 · $5k
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 university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
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…
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 264 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard F Walshalfred W Ditolla Harold P Spivak Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard F Walshalfred W Ditolla Harold P Spivak Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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