· Private foundation
The Mike & Evelyn Walsh Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LaPorte Fire Protection District | $20,000 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hosp Foundat | $10,660 |
| Nevada County Search Rescue | $10,000 |
| A New Day | $10,000 |
| NC Law Enforcement Fire Protection | $9,000 |
| Placer 10-35 Foundation | $5,000 |
| City of Grass Valley | $5,000 |
| Bright Futures for Youth | $5,000 |
| Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital Founda | $5,000 |
| Rudiger Foundation | $5,000 |
| Frontline Healing Foundation | $2,000 |
| Nevada County Toy Run | $1,000 |
| Western Nevada County Recreation Sv | $500 |
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 (FY22–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SNSierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue +40%
- BFBRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +93%
- RFRUDIGER FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +41%
Funded once
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +50%- WPWildlife Preservation Climate Reseaone grant, 2022 · $10k
- NCNevada County Sheriff's Managementone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
Found shelter and safed dogs by promoting education of responsible animal ownership
Our mission is to save, rehabilitate and rehome animals which may otherwise be euthanized at shelters due to their behavioural issues.
Rescue domesticated animals, provide any needed medical care and find them safe forever homes
Care for retired police canine dogs.
Foothill Dog Rescue is a 100% all volunteer organization dedicated to re-homing dogs from over crowded animal shelters, owner surrenders and underserved communities. We also sponsor vaccine and microchip clinics for our County and have…
Abused animal care,public education, spay & neuter of animals to prevent unwanted births, providing a pet cemetary for animals.
Our mission is to be an innovative regional leader in responsible treatment of homeless dogs and cats, primarily through their rescue and placement in forever loving homes and by promoting spaying and neutering to control pet…
Rescue, rehab, and place abandoned dogs
How this is measured
6 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. 6 of the 16 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.
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mike & Evelyn Walsh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mike & Evelyn Walsh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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