California · Private foundation
Robert a Waller 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.
- $456k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 126
- Grants FY2025
- 117
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 90 to 117
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 22
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Robert a Waller Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 123 | $433k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 117 | $455k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 102 | $350k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 105 | $313k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 113 | $570k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 99 | $421k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 97 | $431k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 90 | $393k | 21% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd | $152,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Las Madrinas | $128,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $97,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Pasadena Humane | $92,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Parkinson's Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Pasadena Senior Center | $67,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Ballet Pacifica | $64,250 | 8 | 99% |
| Children of the Night | $64,165 | 9 | 0% |
| Warriors & Quiet Waters Foundation Inc | $63,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Mighty Oaks Foundation | $55,500 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 185 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 73 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert a Waller Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 166 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · John Jewett & Helen Chandler Garland Fou Ndation · S Mark Taper Foundation · The Green Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Ann Peppers Foundation · Gail G Ellis Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Robert a Waller Foundation
- How much does Robert a Waller Foundation give?
- Robert a Waller Foundation reported 126 grants totaling $455,915 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 90 and 117 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Robert a Waller Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Education (20%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are Robert a Waller Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ($152k), Las Madrinas ($128k), Wounded Warrior Project Inc ($97k).
- Does Robert a Waller Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert a Waller 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 Robert a Waller Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pasadena Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, The Rose Hills Foundation.
- Where is Robert a Waller Foundation based?
- Robert a Waller Foundation is based in CA.
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