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The James H and Wanda E DeWald Family 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.

$2k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$500
Largest
01What you fund
0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Environment$5kAnimals$4kCrime & Legal$3kYouth Development$3kHuman Services$2kPublic Benefit$1kOther$5k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
World Wildlife Fund$500
Wounded Warrior Project$500
SPCA-LA$500
Homeboy Industries$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Save Our Youth: $1k → 10%Homeboy Industries: $500 → 14%Independence Fund: $500 → 10%Save Our Youth: $1k → 10%Homeboy Industries: $500 → 14%Independence Fund: $500 → 10%Save Our Youth: $1k → 10%Homeboy Industries: $500 → 14%Homeboy Industries: $500 → 14%Homeboy Industries: $500 → 14%Homeboy Industries: $500 → 14%SPCA-LA: $500 → 14%SPCA-LA: $500 → 14%SPCA-LA: $500 → 14%Wildlife Waystation: $1k → 14%Wildlife Waystation: $1k → 14%New Gethsemane Church of God in Christ: $2k → 14%New Gethsemane Church of God in Christ: $2k → 14%New Gethsemane Church of God in Christ: $500 → 14%Best Friends Animal Society: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$21k · 8 repeat orgs$500 to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$21k
$500

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+5%

Still filing today

88%
100%

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
AnimalsEnvironmentCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther

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

  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +62%
  • SO
    SAVE OUR YOUTH SOY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +116%
  • HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +5%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
2
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
3
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
4
Wildlife Alliance Inc

Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…

Animals
5
Wolfe Ranch Rescue
Animals
6
Predator Defense

Protecting vital native predators & ending war on wildlife.

Animals
7
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
8
The Wildcat Sanctuary

Provide a natural sanctuary to wild cats in need and inspire change to end the captive wildlife crisis.

Animals
9
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
10
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
11
Wildlife Warriors Usa Inc

To be the most effective wildlife conservation organizaton in the world through the delivery of outstanding outcome-based programs, inclusive of humanity. our vision is that people, wildlife and habitat survive and prosper without being…

Philanthropy
12
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Save Our Youth Soy. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

New Gethsemane Church of God in Christ — $4,500 · OtherNew Gethsemane Church o…WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $4,500 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCWILDLIFE WAYSTATION — $2,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE WAYSTATIONLOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $1,500 · AnimalsLOS ANGELES SOCIETY F…BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $500 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL S…SAVE OUR YOUTH SOY — $3,000 · Crime & LegalSAVE OUR YOUTH …HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUSTR…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesThe Independence Fund Inc — $1,000 · Public Benefit
Other$4,500Environment$4,500Animals$4,000Crime & Legal$3,000Youth Development$3,000Human Services$1,500Public Benefit$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE OUR YOUTH SOY — $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE WAYSTATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Independence Fund Inc — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The James H and Wanda E DeWald Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report 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, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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