Texas · 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.
- $280k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Carmage and Martha Ann Walls Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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 | 24 | $280k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $248k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $286k | 46% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $280k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $310k | 77% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $230k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $175k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $280k | 63% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity University | $220,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities Greater Houston Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| United Way of Comal County | $67,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Galveston Island Meals on Wheels Inc | $37,500 | 4 | 2% |
| The Council on Recovery | $37,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Red River Valley Veterans' Memorial Museum Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Smart Family Literacy Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 3% |
| United Way of Greater Baytown Area and Chambers County | $20,500 | 9 | 0% |
| True to Life Ministries Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Nacogdoches Hope | $17,500 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 70 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Carmage and Martha Ann Walls Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About The Carmage and Martha Ann Walls Foundation
- How much does The Carmage and Martha Ann Walls Foundation give?
- The Carmage and Martha Ann Walls Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $280,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Carmage and Martha Ann Walls Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (53%), Human Services (7%), Health (7%).
- Who are The Carmage and Martha Ann Walls Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trinity University ($220k), Ronald McDonald House Charities Greater Houston Inc ($75k), United Way of Comal County ($68k).
- Does The Carmage and Martha Ann Walls Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Carmage and Martha Ann Walls 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 The Carmage and Martha Ann Walls Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Moody Foundation, Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc, Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston.
- Where is The Carmage and Martha Ann Walls Foundation based?
- The Carmage and Martha Ann Walls Foundation is based in TX.
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