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The Corrigan-Walla Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KAINOS HOME & TRAINING CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTA | $60,000 |
| TRUCKEE ROUNDHOUSE | $30,000 |
| SIERRA NEVADA CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $20,000 |
| DENISON UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| PROTECT OUR WINTERS | $10,000 |
| LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CIRCUIT EPA | $10,000 |
| TAHOE ABILITY PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| SHANE MCCONKEY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ATLAS CULTURAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TAHOE NORDIC SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM INC PO BOX 770 | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $693k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +48% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- KHKainos Home and Training Center for the Developmentally Disabled7× · 2017–2024 · $546k · revenue +86%
- TRTRUCKEE ROUNDHOUSE7× · 2017–2024 · $121k · revenue +159%
- DUDENISON UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $90k · revenue +1%
Funded once
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +39%- LLLOVE LIGHT AND MELODYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +71%
- CCCOLUMBIA COLLEGE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $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.
The Truckee Trails Foundation (TTF) is working towards a system of trails and bikeways in and around Truckee, California that will connect people and places, reduce our community's dependence on automobiles, and improve our physical,…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
We welcome, educate, and empower a diverse community of learners for lives of meaning, impact, and joy.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The Foundation envisions a thriving community created through meaningful philanthropy, inclusive communication, and the willingness to explore possibilities together.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To advance the natural history, conservation and ecosystem knowledge of the Tahoe region through science, education and outreach.
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bus Barn Stage Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 71 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 Kainos Home and Training Center for the Developmentally Disabled ↗
- Who funds TRUCKEE ROUNDHOUSE ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BULLIS-PURISSIMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PROTECT OUR WINTERS ↗
- Who funds SHANE MCCONKEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds TAHOE ABILITY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAHOE FOOD HUB ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF TRUCKEE ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUIT EPA ↗
- Who funds TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds TAHOE NORDIC SEARCH & RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together Peninsula ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ALTOS LIBRARY ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LOVE LIGHT AND MELODY ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA ↗
- Who funds CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES DBA SIERRA COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds TAHOE BACKCOUNTRY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TAHOE FOREST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSION HOSPICE & HOME CARE INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY 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: Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation · Martis Camp Community Foundation Dba Martis Camp Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Salesforce Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 The Corrigan-Walla 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.
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
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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