· Private foundation
The Ginger E and Robert D Wallace 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 $10k11 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF UTAH | $11,000 |
| BEAR LAKE VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CACHE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| OGDEN RESCUE MISSION | $9,000 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $7,000 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MALIHEH FREE CLINIC | $5,000 |
| THE SAMARITAN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UTAH YOUTH ORCHESTRAS & ENSEMBLES | $5,000 |
| UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA | $5,000 |
| MINGEI INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| FOREVER BALBOA PARK | $2,000 |
| ATHENEUM MUSIC & ARTS LIBRARY | $1,000 |
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 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NHNeighborhood House Association7× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +1%
- MFMaliheh Free Clinic8× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +79%
- TSTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- NHNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Excite, entertain and enrich diverse audiences.
The New Childrens Museum (the Museum) in San Diego is an arts-based childrens museum whose mission is to stimulate imagination, creativity, and critical thinking in children and families through inventive, engaging experiences with…
Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…
La Jolla Symphony Chorus Association was organized in 1957 under the nonprofit public benefit corporation laws for public and charitable purposes. The mission of the association is to inspire the San Diego community with the joy of music…
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
To provide the youth of san diego with the highest quality choral music education and performance experience, fostering an awareness of culteral diversity and inspiring a lifelong love of music.
To reach out to members of the community by seeking their involvement in all forms of dance either as a student or member of the audience.
To improve the quality of life of communities throughout the city of San Diego through equitable investments in parks, greenspace, and recreational opportunities.Vison - Every San Diegan has access to quality recreational facilities as…
San Diego Theatres, Inc. (SDTI) is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation established to manage and operate publicly owned performing arts theatres. SDTI was established in 2003 by the San Diego Convention Center Corporation (SDCCC),…
San Diego Junior Theatre (Junior Theatre) was incorporated in 1948 as a nonprofit corporation and is the oldest youth theatre in the nation, offering affordable camps, classes, and outreach programs for children ages 3-18; as well as six…
Founded in 1996, The South Coast Symphony, the unstuffy symphony, is a resident orchestra for South Orange County. The seventy member Symphony services South Orange County's fifteen diverse communities with a professional, accessible and…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 53 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.
- Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
- Who funds Maliheh Free Clinic ↗
- Who funds San Diego Opera Association ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds CACHE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE SAMARITAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOREVER BALBOA PARK ↗
- Who funds PORTNEUF HEALTH TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS ↗
- Who funds REUBEN H FLEET SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO YOUTH SYMPHONY & CONSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds Maritime Museum Association of San Diego ↗
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 Conrad Prebys Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust · David C Copley Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Matthew B Ellis Foundation · Rice Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ginger E and Robert D Wallace Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ginger E and Robert D Wallace Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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