· Private foundation
The Waller Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $137k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC | $31,000 |
| YO SAN UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE | $20,000 |
| P F BRESEE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| EARTH CHARTER ASSOCIATES LTD | $10,800 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES | $10,000 |
| LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| DKT INTERNATIONAL INC | $10,000 |
| MANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MALAIKA KIDS US INC | $10,000 |
| EVERY MOTHER COUNTS | $10,000 |
| CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE CHRYSALIS CENTER | $5,000 |
| HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARC | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- CHCALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $22k · revenue +36%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +3%
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- MBMANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ENDOWMENT FUNDone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -20%
- ADAUTOMOBILE DRIVING MUSEUMone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -43%
- NBNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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 Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 36 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
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 IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds PF Bresee Foundation ↗
- Who funds YO SAN UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds DKT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds EARTH CHARTER ASSOCIATES LTD ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds EVERY MOTHER COUNTS ↗
- Who funds AUTOMOBILE DRIVING MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE RICHSTONE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TREEPEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds CICLAVIA INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy ↗
- Who funds Manhattan Beach Community Response Team Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MSI US ↗
- Who funds CADILLAC LASALLE CLUB MUSEUM AND RESEARCH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PALOS VERDES PENINSULA LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION 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: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Sempra Foundation · The Deutsch Foundation · Henry L Guenther Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · American Endowment 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 Waller Family 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.
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.
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