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The Van Wallingham Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Van Wallingham Foundation Inc

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.

$37k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$36kCivil Rights$22kEnvironment$18kCommunity Improvement$13kHuman Services$8kHousing & Shelter$8kFood & Nutrition$6kEducation$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$437k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Villages in Partnership$10,000
Neighbors in Action$5,000
Rainforest Foundation$5,000
Mali Health$3,000
Community Haverst of Central VT$3,000
Center for reproductive Rights$3,000
Champlain Housing Trust$3,000
Dana Farber for Rhabdomyoscarcoma$2,000
Clean Air Task Force$2,000
Souther Property Law Center$1,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%NEIGHBORS IN ACTION: $5k → 16%Neighbors in Action: $5k → 9%FAITH IN ACTION: $2k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CA
CO
VA
NC
DC
AL
TX
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$130k · 12 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +52% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
12

Total granted

$130k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+52%

Still filing today

83%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • VILLAGES IN PARTNERSHIP INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +326%
  • RF
    RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +10%
  • CH
    CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST
    3× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • NI
    Neighbors In Action Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • GY
    Gap Year Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +52%
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
Health in Harmony

Health in Harmony's mission is to reverse tropical rainforest deforestation for planetary health.

Health
2
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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3
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
Rights and Resources Institute Inc

Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…

Environment
6
Amazon Conservation Team

The amazon conservation team (act) partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture.

Science & Tech
7
Climate Rights International

CRI is an international climate and human rights monitoring and advocacy organization dedicated to preventing climate change and human rights abuses.

Environment
8
Bank Climate Advocates

Bank Climate Advocates (BCA) combats climate change and its adverse effects primarily by using legal advocacy and action to align public financial institutions' investment policies and practices with the 1.5 degrees C warming limitation…

Environment
9
Western Resource Advocates

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…

Crime & Legal
10
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
11
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
12
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Villages in Partnership Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

18 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. 18 of the 28 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VILLAGES IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $44,000 · InternationalVILLAGES IN PARTNERSHIP INC+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalFAITH IN ACTION: $10,000 · OtherFAITH IN ACTIONIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $3,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCommunity Haverst of Central VT: $3,000 · OtherCommunity Haverst of Central V…Individual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherDana Farber for Rhabdomyoscarcoma: $2,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HARVEST OF CENTRAL VERMONT: $6,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HARVEST OF CENTRAL V…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $3,600 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER IN…Gap Year Association: $3,000 · OtherGap Year Association+7 more: $7,000 · Other+7 moreRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentRAINFOREST FOUNDA…CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $4,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK FO…AMERICAN RIVERS INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS I…Amazon Watch Inc: $3,000 · EnvironmentAmazon Watch IncMALI HEALTH ORGANIZING PROJECT INC: $16,000 · Community ImprovementMALI HEALTH…Neighbors In Action Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesFaith in Action Northern Com Partner Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesFAITH IN ACTION: $2,000 · Human ServicesCHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST: $11,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $11,000 · Civil Rights
International$45,000Other$44,300Environment$25,000Community Improvement$16,000Human Services$12,000Housing & Shelter$11,000Civil Rights$11,000

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 budgetVILLAGES IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $44,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMALI HEALTH ORGANIZING PROJECT INC: $16,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST OF CENTRAL VERMONT: $6,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetNeighbors In Action Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFaith in Action Northern Com Partner Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $3,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGap Year Association: $3,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Van Wallingham Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Van Wallingham Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Champlain Housing Trust: 15% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report 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.
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How do I get to The Van Wallingham Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Van Wallingham Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 28 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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