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The Corrigan-Walla Foundation at a glance

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The Corrigan-Walla 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.

$310k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$792kHuman Services$676kHealth$220kArts & Culture$181kPhilanthropy$94kEnvironment$84kRecreation & Sports$54kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KAINOS HOME & TRAINING CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTA$50,000
TRUCKEE ROUNDHOUSE$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$25,000
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$25,000
PARKER INSTITUTE FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY$25,000
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY$20,000
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY$10,000
TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION$10,000
CIRCUIT EPA$10,000
EL CAMINO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY$7,500
TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST$7,500
ATLAS CULTURAL FOUNDATION$5,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $783k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ATLAS CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%PADRINO CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 11%LOVE LIGHT AND MELODY A NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION: $10k → 12%ATLAS CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%TAHOE ABILITY PROGRAM: $10k → 11%TAHOE ABILITY PROGRAM: $10k → 11%TAHOE ABILITY PROGRAM: $10k → 11%MISSION HOSPICE & HOME CARE INC: $8k → 7%TAHOE ABILITY PROGRAM: $10k → 11%MISSION HOSPICE & HOME CARE INC: $3k → 7%CIRCUIT EPA: $10k → 10%CIRCUIT EPA: $10k → 8%CIRCUIT EPA: $10k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $11k → 8%KAINOS HOME & TRAINING CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTA: $111k → 7%SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%TAHOE ABILITY PROGRAM: $5k → 11%KAINOS HOME & TRAINING CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTA: $100k → 7%KAINOS HOME & TRAINING CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTA: $75k → 7%SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%SEND IT: $2k → 11%KAINOS HOME & TRAINING CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTA: $75k → 7%SILICON VALLEY BICYCLE EXCHANGE: $3k → 8%KAINOS HOME & TRAINING CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTA: $75k → 7%HALE RANCH FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%KAINOS HOME & TRAINING CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTA: $60k → 7%SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%KAINOS HOME & TRAINING CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTA: $50k → 7%KAINOS HOME & TRAINING CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTA: $50k → 7%HALE RANCH FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%SILICON VALLEY BICYCLE EXCHANGE: $1k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%WOMENSV: $3k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 35 repeat orgs$330k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
31

Total granted

$2.1M
$271k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+35%

Still filing today

89%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • KH
    Kainos Home and Training Center for the Developmentally Disabled
    8× · 2017–2025 · $596k · revenue +129%
  • TR
    TRUCKEE ROUNDHOUSE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $151k · revenue +159%
  • TC
    TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +39%
  • TF
    TAHOE FOREST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +539%
  • CC
    COLUMBIA COLLEGE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

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.

Education
2
Truckee Trails Foundation Inc

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,…

Environment
3
University of Redlands

We welcome, educate, and empower a diverse community of learners for lives of meaning, impact, and joy.

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
5
Livermore Lab Foundation

The livermore lab foundation advances scientific knowledge and inspires the next generation of science and technology leaders by leveraging philanthropic investments in world-class research, education, and innovation at lawrence livermore…

Philanthropy
6
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
7
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
8
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
9
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
10
The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education
11
The Peak School

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…

Education
12
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 77 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/66
Grantees still filing
44/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Kainos Home and Training Center for the Developmentally Disabled: $596,000 · Human ServicesKainos Home and Training Center fo…SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $61,000 · Human ServicesSAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDAT…TAHOE ABILITY PROGRAM: $45,000 · Human ServicesTAHOE ABILITY PROGRAMTHE CIRCUIT EPA: $30,000 · Human Services+8 more: $50,500 · Human Services+8 moreTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $100,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT…DENISON UNIVERSITY: $90,000 · EducationDENISON UNIVERSITYLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYBARNARD COLLEGE: $75,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGEBULLIS-PURISSIMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationBULLIS-PURISSIMA ELEMENTARY…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $45,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UN…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Education+6 more: $53,000 · Education+6 moreBELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY: $201,500 · OtherBELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATOR…SACRED HEART SCHOOLS ATHERTON: $80,000 · OtherSACRED HEART SCHOOLS ATHERTONEL CAMINO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $66,500 · OtherEL CAMINO HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $55,000 · OtherSEATTLE UNIVERSITYPARKER INSTITUTE FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY: $25,000 · OtherTAHOE FOOD HUB: $28,000 · Other+29 more: $210,000 · Other+29 moreTRUCKEE ROUNDHOUSE: $151,000 · Arts & CultureTRUCKEE R…SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM: $55,000 · Arts & CultureSIERRA NE…Bus Barn Stage Company: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSHANE MCCONKEY FOUNDATION: $56,000 · PhilanthropyLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $32,500 · PhilanthropyTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $59,000 · EnvironmentTRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST: $27,500 · EnvironmentTAHOE BACKCOUNTRY ALLIANCE: $10,000 · EnvironmentTruckee River Watershed Council: $5,000 · Environment+1 more: $2,500 · EnvironmentWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $40,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $7,000 · International+1 more: $1,000 · International
Human Services$782,500Education$628,000Other$666,000Arts & Culture$216,000Philanthropy$116,500Environment$104,000International$48,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKainos Home and Training Center for the Developmentally Disabled: $596,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetTRUCKEE ROUNDHOUSE: $151,000 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $61,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBULLIS-PURISSIMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $59,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSHANE MCCONKEY FOUNDATION: $56,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM: $55,000 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTAHOE ABILITY PROGRAM: $45,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $32,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CIRCUIT EPA: $30,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTAHOE FOOD HUB: $28,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARKER INSTITUTE FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF TRUCKEE: $21,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTAHOE NORDIC SEARCH & RESCUE INC: $17,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetRebuilding Together Peninsula: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWellesley College: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOS ALTOS LIBRARY ENDOWMENT: $12,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTAHOE FOREST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAHOE BACKCOUNTRY ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetPENINSULA HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHALE RANCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES DBA SIERRA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION HOSPICE & HOME CARE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE LIGHT AND MELODY: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLAS CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetBus Barn Stage Company: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEHOPE: $9,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TENACITY PROJECT INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUCSF FOUNDATION INVESTMENT COMPANY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStephen J Wampler Foundation Camp WAMP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIAHONA MOTU FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Tahoe Truckee Communi…Martis Camp Community…Silicon Valley Commun…Tahoe Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…Jewish Community Fede…The David and Lucile …The Sobrato Family Fo…Community Foundation …Salesforce FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…
Tahoe Truckee Community FoundationCA36.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Corrigan-Walla Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Corrigan-Walla Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Corrigan-Walla Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Corrigan-Walla Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home