· Private foundation
The Walbridge Fund
Its FY2021 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, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $100k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THORNE BUILDING COMMUNITY CENTER | $750,000 |
| GLYNWOOD CENTER | $500,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES | $10,000 |
| PRINCETON-BLAIRSTOWN CENTER | $10,000 |
| ADIRONDACK EXPERIENCE | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS | $10,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ADIRONDACK CHPTR | $10,000 |
| ADIRONDACK EXPLORER | $10,000 |
| PARKS & TRAILS NEW YORK | $10,000 |
| ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| DARROW SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ADIRONDACK COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| LITERACY SOLUTIONS NY | $5,000 |
| ADIRONDCK WILD FRIENDS OF THE FOREST PR | $5,000 |
| ADIRONDACK PARK INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
97 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2021, 85 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $785k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHScenic Hudson Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $6.0M · revenue +86%
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $5.4M · revenue +57%- TGTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC4× · 2017–2020 · $3.3M · revenue +139%
Funded once
- FCFOUR CORNERS SCHOOL OF OUTDOOR EDUCone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue -76% · 45% of their budget
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY ASIA-PACIFICone grant, 2017 · $500k
- RWRIVERSEDGE WESTgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $300k · revenue +33%
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.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Zoo new york, by example and action, provides knowledge and motivation for conserving nature in new york state through science-based natural and cultural experiences.
To educate the community as to the significance of their architectural and historic heritage through the preservation, protection, improvement, and restoration of sites and buildings in western new york that are of historic or civic…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
The mission of the new canaan land trust is to foster a connection between the new canaan community and its natural resources through the conservation and sustainable stewardship of our open space.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
See schedule onylcvef's mission is to educate, engage and empower new yorkers to be effective advocates on behalf of the environment from clean energy and funding for parks, to solid waste and green buildings. first, we educate new yorkers…
How this is measured
74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 118 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.
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLYNWOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY ↗
- Who funds UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILLBROOK COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
- Who funds Sageland Collaborative ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PINE PLAINS MEMORIAL HALL INC ↗
- Who funds WAVE HILL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FOUR CORNERS SCHOOL OF OUTDOOR EDUC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UTAH RIVERS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSEDGE WEST ↗
- Who funds THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ENGENDERHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds MILLBROOK LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds LUMEN PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 FARM INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Palladium Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · My Good Fund · Cloudsplitter Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Boquet Foundation Inc · Overhills Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Community Foundation of Utah · The Nature Conservancy · Patagoniaorg
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Walbridge Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Walbridge Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Marthas Vineyard Center for Living Inc: 40% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's: 5% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc: 4% of income from government
- Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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