· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| KURTH MEMORIAL ANIMAL SHELTER | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF COMAL COUNTY | $10,000 |
| GALVESTON ISLAND MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,000 |
| TRUE TO LIFE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| RED RIVER VALLEY VETERANS MEMORIAL | $10,000 |
| GUADALUPE 4H COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| NACOGDOCHES HOPE | $5,000 |
| HILL COUNTRY VETERANS CENTER | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY KERRVILLE KROC | $5,000 |
| RESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER | $5,000 |
| SMART FAMILY LITERACY INC | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SW OKLAHOMA | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
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 +10% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUTrinity University3× · 2017–2019 · $220k · revenue +83%
- UWUNITED WAY OF COMAL COUNTY7× · 2019–2025 · $68k · revenue +16%
- GIGALVESTON ISLAND MEALS ON WHEELS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $38k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA - COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATIONSone grant, 2017 · $51k
- SASALVATION ARMY OF GALVESTON COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $13k
- VVVAL VERDE COUNTY LOAVES & FISHESone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -24%
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.
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.
How this is measured
57 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. 57 of the 132 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
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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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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Carmage and Martha Ann Walls Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carmage and Martha Ann Walls Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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