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The Pulido Walker Foundation at a glance

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The Pulido Walker Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$225k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$51k
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 2024.

Recreation & Sports$310kEducation$275kPhilanthropy$225kArts & Culture$216kYouth Development$177kHealth$149kFood & Nutrition$141kAnimals$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $119k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $101k
$33,900
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST HELENA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$50,500
COLLECTIVE NAPA VALLEYAUCTION NAPA VALLEY$50,000
NAPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$35,000
NOTES FOR EDUCATION INC$33,900
NAPA VALLEY GRAPEGROWERS FOUNDATION$25,250
THE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION$25,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$400
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%COLLECTIVE NAPA VALLEYAUCTION NAPA VALLEY: $71k → 9%JAMESON ANIMAL RESCUE RANCH: $50k → 9%CURE DUCHENNE: $10k → 10%FAMILY HOUSE: $10k → 10%PROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 11%THE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $125k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $175k → 13%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA: $63k → 9%CURE DUCHENNE: $10k → 10%VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 11%THE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $35k → 13%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA: $62k → 9%THE BISHOP'S SCHOOL: $60k → 11%THE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $25k → 13%ST HELENA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $51k → 9%RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION: $17k → 11%FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $25k → 13%COLLECTIVE NAPA VALLEYAUCTION NAPA VALLEY: $50k → 9%RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $25k → 13%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA: $25k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $25k → 13%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA: $25k → 9%COLLECTIVE NAPA VALLEYAUCTION NAPA VALLEY: $20k → 9%ST HELENA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%NAPA VALLEY GRAPEGROWERS FOUNDATION: $60k → 9%NAPA VALLEY GRAPEGROWERS FOUNDATION: $56k → 9%OLE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $52k → 9%NAPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%NAPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%NAPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35k → 9%NOTES FOR EDUCATION INC: $34k → 9%NAPA VALLEY GRAPEGROWERS FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%NAPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%NOTES FOR EDUCATION INC: $13k → 9%NAPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%NOTES FOR EDUCATION INC: $10k → 9%NAPA VALLEY FARMWORKER FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%JAMESON ANIMAL RESCUE RANCH: $25k → 9%NAPA VALLEY FARMWORKER FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%JAMESON ANIMAL RESCUE RANCH: $25k → 9%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$860k · 13 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
8

Total granted

$860k
$288k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+11%

Still filing today

92%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentAnimalsCivil RightsOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $175k · revenue +22%
  • NV
    NAPA VALLEY GRAPEGROWERS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $141k · revenue ×76 · 88% of their budget
  • NF
    Notes for Education Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $56k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • University of South Carolina Educational Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue -11%
  • BS
    BISHOP SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $60k
  • OH
    OLE HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $52k · revenue -1%
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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
3
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
4
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
5
The University Foundation At Sacramento State

Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…

Education
6
North Dakota State University Foundation

Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.

Education
7
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.

Education
8
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation

To benefit the university of california santa cruz.

Education
9
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
10
University of California Santa Barbara Alumni Association

To serve the University, to involve UCSB alumni and students in its affairs and to enlist alumni talents in the preservation and promotion of UCSB's image, tradition, pride and status as a world class university.

Education
11
California State University Foundation

Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…

Philanthropy
12
Naval Postgraduate School Foundation Inc

Our mission is to support the naval postgraduate school by providing funding and programmatic support for education, research, technology development, institutional initiatives, and community programs that advance national security and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Napa Valley; the most unlike its peers is American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education. 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

22 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. 22 of the 25 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Notre Dame du Lac: $310,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $125,000 · EducationUniversity of South Carolina Educational…THE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationTHE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATIONNAPA VALLEY FARMWORKER FOUNDATION: $55,000 · EducationNAPA VALLEY FARMWORKER FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Education+3 more: $9,300 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY: $170,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATI…OLE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $51,650 · PhilanthropyOLE HEALTH FOUNDAT…RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION: $34,500 · PhilanthropyRANCHO SANTA FE FO…FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyFOCUSING PHILANTHR…COLLECTIVE NAPA VALLEYAUCTION NAPA VALLEY: $140,640 · OtherCOLLECTIVE NAPA VA…BISHOP SCHOOL: $60,000 · OtherBISHOP SCHOOLNotes for Education Inc: $56,400 · OtherNotes for Educatio…PROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · OtherVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC: $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRL…NAPA VALLEY GRAPEGROWERS FOUNDATION: $141,355 · Food & NutritionNAPA VALL…Jameson Animal Rescue Ranch: $100,000 · AnimalsSt Helena Hospital Foundation: $60,500 · HealthCURE DUCHENNE: $20,000 · HealthFAMILY HOUSE INC: $11,579 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · Health
Education$599,300Philanthropy$276,150Other$278,040Youth Development$175,000Food & Nutrition$141,355Animals$100,000Health$97,079

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 budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $310,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC: $175,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY: $170,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNAPA VALLEY GRAPEGROWERS FOUNDATION: $141,355 over 3y, 88% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJameson Animal Rescue Ranch: $100,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSt Helena Hospital Foundation: $60,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNotes for Education Inc: $56,400 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetNAPA VALLEY FARMWORKER FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetOLE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $51,650 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION: $34,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCURE DUCHENNE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY HOUSE INC: $11,579 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Alumni Association: $2,300 over 4y, 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.

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.

The San Diego Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Npt Charitable Asset …Robert Lee Hudson Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Community Foundation …National Philanthropi…The Ayco Charitable F…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…
The San Diego FoundationCA18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Npt Charitable Asset Trust · Robert Lee Hudson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Pulido Walker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pulido Walker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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