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The James H and Wanda E DeWald Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Youth Development$6kEnvironment$5kReligion$5kAnimals$4kHuman Services$3k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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.
$21k · 8 repeat orgs$500 to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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
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

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

Funded once

  • BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +5%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; 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 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. 8 of the 9 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $4,500 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCNew Gethsemane Church of God in Christ: $4,500 · OtherNew Gethsemane Church o…WILDLIFE 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…HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUSTR…SAVE OUR YOUTH SOY: $3,000 · Crime & LegalSAVE OUR YOUTH …WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesThe Independence Fund Inc: $1,000 · Public Benefit
Environment$4,500Other$4,500Animals$4,000Youth Development$3,000Crime & Legal$3,000Human Services$1,500Public Benefit$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE OUR YOUTH SOY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The James H and Wanda E DeWald Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James H and Wanda E DeWald Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% 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, 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.

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 9 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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