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The McCabe Walls 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $632k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UC DAVIS FOUNDATION | $225,000 |
| BE THE CHANGE VOLUNTEERS | $122,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| EXETER UNIVERSITY US FOUNDATION | $85,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| KQED | $50,000 |
| BAY AREA VIDEO CENTER MEDIA | $35,000 |
| LEAVE NO TRACE CENTER FOR OUTDOOR E | $25,000 |
| THE DESCHUTES AND TRUST | $25,000 |
| ANGELS OF THE AMAZON | $20,000 |
| GROW CONCORD | $20,000 |
| MARINE MAMMAL CENTER | $15,000 |
| EBARR (EAST BAY ANIMAL RESCUE & REF | $15,000 |
| DIABLO EQUESTRIAN HERITAGE ASSOCIAT | $10,000 |
| HUNGRY TAILZ RESCUE | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TUTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $330k · revenue +30%
THE LOTUS CAMPAIGN2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +65%- RKRuthless Kindness2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- ARANIMAL REFUGE CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- MDMT DIABLO INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -14%
- N(NORSLED (NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SLEG Done grant, 2024 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The center for biological diversity inc, works to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. we do so through science, law and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters and…
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Club Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hungry Tailz Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 43 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Be The Change Vacations ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION HAWKS INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL REFUGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds Deschutes Land Trust ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEAVE NO TRACE CENTER FOR OUTDOOR ETHICS ↗
- Who funds MT DIABLO INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOTUS CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF THE AMAZON INC ↗
- Who funds Ruthless Kindness ↗
- Who funds John Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CONTRA COSTA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUNGRY TAILZ RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE'S FUND ↗
- Who funds GREEN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS CONTRA COSTA INC ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The McCabe Walls 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.
- Deschutes Land Trust — 46% of income from government
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.
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