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Richard Wallrath Educational Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$604k
Granted FY2021
47
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$264k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 94% of RICHARD WALLRATH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2021 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k36 grants · $106k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $143k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $91k
  • $250k+1 grant · $264k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY$263,750
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY$91,250
TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY$26,250
WEST TEXAS A & M UNIVERSI$26,250
ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY$17,500
TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY$17,500
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS$11,250
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN$11,250
BLINN COLLEGE - BRENHAM$11,250
Individual grant recipient$11,250
TEXAS TECH HEALTH SCIENCE CTR$10,000
ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERS$7,500
TEXAS A & M - COMMERCE$7,500
TEXAS A & M - CORPUS CHRIST$6,250
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY$6,250
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $16k → 8%WEST TEXAS A & M UNIVERSI: $28k → 9%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN: $23k → 10%TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY: $26k → 13%TEXAS A&M - COMMERCE: $10k → 13%ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY: $18k → 13%BLINN COLLEGE - BRENHAM: $16k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN BAYLOR: $10k → 14%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $14k → 16%TEXAS A & M - CORPUS CHRIST: $10k → 17%SAM HOUSTON STATE: $19k → 20%TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY: $276k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $11k → 8%WEST TEXAS A & M UNIVERSI: $26k → 9%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $18k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN: $22k → 10%TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 13%ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 13%BLINN COLLEGE - BRENHAM: $14k → 14%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERS: $16k → 20%TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY: $264k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $11k → 8%WEST TEXAS A & M UNIVERSI: $21k → 9%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $18k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN: $20k → 10%TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY: $24k → 13%ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 13%BLINN COLLEGE - BRENHAM: $13k → 14%SAM HOUSTON STATE: $14k → 20%TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY: $261k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $11k → 8%WEST TEXAS A & M UNIVERSI: $21k → 9%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $18k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN: $20k → 10%TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY: $24k → 13%BLINN COLLEGE - BRENHAM: $11k → 14%SAM HOUSTON STATE: $13k → 20%TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY: $259k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $10k → 8%WEST TEXAS A & M UNIVERSI: $19k → 9%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN: $11k → 10%TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY: $24k → 13%BLINN COLLEGE - BRENHAM: $11k → 14%SAM HOUSTON STATE: $11k → 20%TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY: $256k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 58 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

58 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2021, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
11

Total granted

$3.0M
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+34%

Still filing today

26%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $43k · revenue +57%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR
    5× · 2017–2021 · $34k · revenue +13%
  • UO
    University of the Incarnate Word
    5× · 2017–2021 · $26k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • SH
    SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERS
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +34%
  • TT
    TEXAS TECH UNIVERISTY HEALTH CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
2
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
3
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

4
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
5
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
6
East Texas Baptist University

East texas baptist university (etbu) was founded in 1912 as a fully accredited institution of higher education. affiliated with the baptist general convention of texas, etbu educates students by integrating biblical faith and learning to…

Education
7
Taylor University

The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.

Education
8
John Brown University

John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…

Education
9
Southwestern Christian University

Scu is a christ-centered liberal arts institution equipping students for a life of learning, leadership, and service; integrating faith, learning, and living; and empowering graduates to excel and to positively impact their world for jesus…

Education
10
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
11
Texas Wesleyan University

Texas wesleyan university, guided by its deep methodist heritage, provides transformational learning experiences and research opportunities to a diverse group of students to develop their full potential as individuals and as members of the…

Education
12
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hardin-Simmons University and the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 75 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
17/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY — $1,316,250 · OtherTEXAS A & M UNIVERSITYTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY — $437,500 · OtherTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITYTARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY — $122,500 · OtherWEST TEXAS A & M UNIVERSI — $115,000 · Other+57 more — $895,625 · Other+57 moreBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $42,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR — $34,375 · EducationUniversity of the Incarnate Word — $26,250 · EducationLeTourneau University — $10,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice University — $8,750 · EducationSt Edwards University — $8,750 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY — $8,750 · EducationTrinity University — $8,750 · EducationHARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY — $8,750 · EducationUniversity of St Thomas — $6,250 · Education+4 more — $10,000 · Education
Other$2,886,875Education$173,125

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $42,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR — $34,375 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of the Incarnate Word — $26,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY — $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLeTourneau University — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $8,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Edwards University — $8,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY — $8,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity University — $8,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY — $8,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $6,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas — $6,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSchreiner University — $3,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's University — $3,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dallas — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCMURRY UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR
  • Who funds University of the Incarnate Word
  • Who funds TEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds LeTourneau University
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University
  • Who funds St Edwards University
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Trinity University
  • Who funds HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds HOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds University of St Thomas

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.

San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund IncTX32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Robert A Welch Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Rc Caffarelli Educational Fund Frost Bank Trustee · Chase Foundation Mack C Chase Trustee · Texas Higher Education Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Communities Foundation of Texas 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 Richard Wallrath Educational 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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