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The Craig and Emily Wall Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$58k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$387kReligion$58kArts & Culture$27kPhilanthropy$20kAnimals$17kHealth$5kRecreation & Sports$2kInternational$750
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$12,500
COASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION - WALL FELLOWS PROGRAM$10,000
EASTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$8,700
THE CITADEL FOUNDATION$5,000
BROOKGREEN GARDENS$5,000
HAMMOND SCHOOL$5,000
WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL - AMICI FUND$2,500
UNC - CHAPEL HILL$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$2,500
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$1,000
UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS$1,000
MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL$1,000
RIVERBANKS SOCIETY$500
SOUTH CAROLINA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION$500
THE OLIVER GOSPEL MISSION$500
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%THE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%BROOKGREEN GARDENS: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $5k → 16%LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $3k → 11%THE MINT MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 10%UNC - CHAPEL HILL: $3k → 13%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $13k → 11%TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%THE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%BROOKGREEN GARDENS: $3k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA - DARLA MOORE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $5k → 16%LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $3k → 11%UNC - CHAPEL HILL: $3k → 13%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $13k → 11%TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%THE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%BROOKGREEN GARDENS: $2k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $5k → 16%LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $3k → 11%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $13k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA - DARLA MOORE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $4k → 16%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $13k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $3k → 16%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $10k → 11%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $3k → 11%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL - AMICI FUND: $3k → 11%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL - AMICI FUND: $3k → 11%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $3k → 11%HAMMOND SCHOOL: $15k → 16%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $3k → 11%HAMMOND SCHOOL: $10k → 16%HAMMOND SCHOOL: $10k → 16%HAMMOND SCHOOL: $10k → 16%HAMMOND SCHOOL: $10k → 16%HAMMOND SCHOOL: $8k → 16%HAMMOND SCHOOL: $5k → 16%HAMMOND SCHOOL: $5k → 16%HAMMOND SCHOOL: $5k → 16%EASTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10k → 16%EASTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $9k → 16%EASTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 16%EASTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 16%EASTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 16%EASTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 16%EASTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 16%EASTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 16%EASTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 16%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$505k · 23 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
6

Total granted

$505k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+63%

Still filing today

65%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyAnimalsReligionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • HS
    HAMMOND SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +19%
  • WF
    WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2023 · $68k · revenue +47%
  • Davidson College
    9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • MM
    MINT MUSEUM OF ART INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +63%
  • UB
    USC BUSINESS PTSP FOUNDATION-CRAIG WALL SCHOLARSHIP
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • BC
    BREVARD COLLEGE CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +34%
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.

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Wofford College

The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…

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2
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
3
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
4
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education
7
Spartanburg Methodist College

SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…

Education
8
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
11
Roberts Wesleyan University

As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.

Education
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Citadel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is JBs Celebration Park Inc. 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
17/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAMMOND SCHOOL: $78,000 · EducationHAMMOND SCHOOLWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $67,500 · EducationWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOLDavidson College: $62,500 · EducationDavidson CollegeTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $10,250 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $9,500 · EducationTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $8,500 · Education+2 more: $4,000 · EducationCOASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION - WALL FELLOWS PROGRAM: $90,000 · OtherCOASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION - WALL FELLO…EASTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $53,700 · OtherEASTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $18,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINAUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $10,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA - DARLA MOORE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $9,000 · Other+5 more: $15,000 · Other+5 moreBROOKGREEN GARDENS: $21,500 · EnvironmentSOUTH CAROLINA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · EnvironmentUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $11,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF HORRY COUNTY INC: $9,101 · PhilanthropyRIVERBANKS SOCIETY: $5,000 · AnimalsCAROLINA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $2,000 · AnimalsOliver Gospel Mission: $4,500 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $750 · ReligionMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureJBs Celebration Park Inc: $500 · Recreation & Sports
Education$252,250Other$196,200Environment$29,000Philanthropy$20,101Animals$7,000Religion$5,250Arts & Culture$5,000Recreation & Sports$500

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 budgetHAMMOND SCHOOL: $78,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $67,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson College: $62,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKGREEN GARDENS: $21,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $11,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $10,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HORRY COUNTY INC: $9,101 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERBANKS SOCIETY: $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOliver Gospel Mission: $4,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBREVARD COLLEGE CORPORATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJBs Celebration Park Inc: $500 over 1y, 2.8% 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.

  • Who funds HAMMOND SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Davidson College ↗
  • Who funds BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds THE CITADEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
  • Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF HORRY COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVERBANKS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Oliver Gospel Mission ↗
  • Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
  • Who funds BREVARD COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds JBs Celebration Park Inc ↗

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.

Central Carolina Community FoundationSC17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Michael J Mungo Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation

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 Craig and Emily Wall Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Craig and Emily Wall Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Craig and Emily Wall Family 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 29 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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