· Private foundation
The Wallace 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k122 grants · $150k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k92 grants · $11M
- $250k+55 grants · $42M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Alternate ROOTS Inc | $3,000,000 |
| First Peoples Fund | $3,000,000 |
| National Association of Latino Arts and Culture | $3,000,000 |
| Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System | $2,252,202 |
| Winston Salem Forsyth County | $1,345,000 |
| San Antonio Independent School District | $1,345,000 |
| Fresno Unified School District | $1,345,000 |
| DC Public Education Fund | $1,345,000 |
| School District No 1J Multnomah County Oregon | $1,345,000 |
| Columbus City Schools | $1,345,000 |
| Board of Education of Jefferson County Kentucky | $1,345,000 |
| Fund for Educational Excellence Inc | $1,235,000 |
| Chicago Sinfonietta Inc | $1,189,000 |
| Pillsbury United Communities Inc dba Pillsbury House Theatre | $891,000 |
| Family Health International | $850,442 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $7.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The Wallace Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
222 repeat relationships — 151 still active in FY2024, 71 since wound down; 69 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.9M 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
The Rand Corporation5× · 2020–2024 · $9.6M · revenue +21%- FHFamily Health International Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $9.6M · revenue +5%
FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $7.4M · revenue +68%
Funded once
- SDSchool District of Palm Beach Countyone grant, 2020 · $2.5M
- DADenver Afterschool Allianceone grant, 2020 · $1.8M
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue +29%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Guild for Community Arts Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is EastSide Arts Alliance. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
444 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. 444 of the 579 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds The Rand Corporation ↗
- Who funds Family Health International Inc ↗
- Who funds DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds EDITORIAL PROJECTS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT ↗
- Who funds BOSTON AFTER SCHOOL & BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LATINO ARTS AND CULTURE ↗
- Who funds Learning Policy Institute ↗
- Who funds GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST PEOPLES FUND ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Mid-America Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds South Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WESTERN STATES ARTS FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Alternate RootsInc ↗
- Who funds Arts Midwest Incorporated ↗
- Who funds MID ATLANTIC ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NATL ASSN OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SINFONIETTA INC ↗
- Who funds EXPANDED SCHOOLS 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 Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Gates Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · The Joyce Foundation · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Surdna Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Heising-Simons 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 Wallace 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.
- Windham Regional Community Council Inc — 76% of income from government
- Mid Atlantic Arts Inc — 66% of income from government
- Education Development Center Inc — 65% of income from government
- Hopeloft a Nj Nonprofit Corporation — 60% of income from government
- Child Trends Inc — 50% of income from government
- Terc Inc — 44% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Boston After School & Beyond Inc — 15% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Clemmons Family Farm Inc — 9% of income from government
- New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- World Music Inc — 5% of income from government
- Education Resource Strategies Inc — 4% of income from government
- Early Learning Coalition of Palm Beach County Inc — 2% of income from government
- Portland Center Stage — 1% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% 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.