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The Walmilly Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$73k
Granted FY2019
9
Grants FY2019
9
Organizations funded FY2019
56%
First-time grantees FY2019
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85% of The Walmilly Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year The Walmilly Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $73k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

7
’17
8
’18
6
’19
6
’20

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2019
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 16
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 56% of the organizations The Walmilly Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
AnimalsReligionInternationalYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20199$73k56%
FY201812$70k75%
FY201716$56kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Philanthropy$563kHealth$106kArts & Culture$77kHousing & Shelter$69kReligion$14kEducation$10kAnimals$9kInternational$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($68k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Walmilly Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUsc Arcadia Hospital Foundation: $80,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUnion Rescue Mission: $40,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHenry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery: $37,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPasadena Humane: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOptimist Blind Youth Association: $2,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWarm Blankets Childrens Foundation Inc Dba Kinship United: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Ventura County: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJapanese American National Museum: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlan International USA Inc: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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About The Walmilly Foundation

How much does The Walmilly Foundation give?
The Walmilly Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $72,750 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does The Walmilly Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (66%), Health (12%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are The Walmilly Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Usc Arcadia Hospital Foundation ($80k), Union Rescue Mission ($41k), Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery ($38k).
Does The Walmilly Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Walmilly Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is The Walmilly Foundation based?
The Walmilly Foundation is based in CA.

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 35 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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