· Private foundation
The Carmage and Martha Ann Walls 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of THE CARMAGE AND MARTHA ANN WALLS 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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY UNIVERSITY - ALUMNI RELATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT | $150,000 |
| THE COUNCIL ON RECOVERY | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF COMAL COUNTY | $10,000 |
| GUADALUPE 4H COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GALVESTON ISLAND MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,000 |
| TRUE TO LIFE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| RED RIVER VALLEY VETERANS MEMORIAL | $10,000 |
| KURTH MEMORIAL ANIMAL SHELTER | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY KERRVILLE KROC | $5,000 |
| SMART FAMILY LITERACY INC | $5,000 |
| RESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER | $5,000 |
| NACOGDOCHES HOPE | $5,000 |
| HILL COUNTRY VETERANS CENTER | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SW OKLAHOMA | $4,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 9 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TUTrinity University3× · 2017–2019 · $220k · revenue +83%
- UWUNITED WAY OF COMAL COUNTY7× · 2019–2025 · $68k · revenue +16%
- TCThe Council on Recovery4× · 2022–2025 · $38k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA - COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATIONSone grant, 2017 · $51k
- SASALVATION ARMY OF GALVESTON COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $13k
- DFDOWNTOWN FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2019 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide services designed to meet the physical, social, and emotional needs of domestic violence and sexual assault victims by providing for immediate, short, and long-term needs.
To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.
To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.
The mission of the Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry and Support Center is to serve Bastrop County residents going through periods of transition by providing emergency food assistance, education and support.
Provide a safe place where law enforcement, prosecutors, and child protective services case workers can investigate child abuse. Train and Supervise volunteers to serve CASAs
To alleviate hunger by distributing food to families who are food deprived through a network of volunteers and other agencies within Hays County.
The children's advocacy center of van zandt county is committed to ensuring quality services and support to those children impacted by abuse while also building a future where no child in van zandt county experiences abuse.
None
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
To promote Corsicana and the surrounding area.
To bring hope and healing while working together to break the cycle of child abuse.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Galveston County Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Seguin-Guadalupe County Heritage Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
57 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 132 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Trinity University ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COMAL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Council on Recovery ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON ISLAND MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds RED RIVER VALLEY VETERANS' MEMORIAL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Smart Family Literacy Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER BAYTOWN AREA AND CHAMBERS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TRUE TO LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NACOGDOCHES HOPE ↗
- Who funds Love Network of Baytown ↗
- Who funds NEW BRAUNFELS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRAZORIA COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN'S HABILITATION ↗
- Who funds KERRVILLE PETS ALIVE ↗
- Who funds MATAGORDA COUNTY WOMEN'S CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE VALLEY FAMILY VIOLENCE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Comanche County Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Moody Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston · Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Pineywoods Foundation · The Priddy Foundation · Permanent Endowment Fund of Moody Methodist Church · United Way of Galveston Inc White · The Mary Moody Northen Endowment · Dr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust
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 The Carmage and Martha Ann Walls 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.
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.
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