· Private foundation
The Walsh 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $445k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+12 grants · $9.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP | $2,600,000 |
| MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION | $1,510,000 |
| JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| FRANCIS XAVIER WARDE SCHOOL | $1,000,000 |
| MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES | $700,000 |
| MERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS | $550,000 |
| JESUIT INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS | $500,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| NAZARETH ACADEMY | $300,000 |
| LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - CYSTIC FIBROSIS | $250,000 |
| ST JOHN OF THE CROSS | $250,000 |
| ST MARY'S COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| MOTHER MCAULEY HIGH SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $150,000 |
| WTTW | $125,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $10.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
80 repeat relationships: 58 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 8 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $718k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +17%
MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +286%
John Carroll University5× · 2019–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +11%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN OF THE CROSS SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $200k
- KCKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industryone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -1%
- CPCHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $64k · revenue +40%
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.
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
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The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
How this is measured
48 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. 48 of the 123 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 MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds John Carroll University ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds Erikson Institute ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Children International ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Tully Family Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Carol Bernick Family Foundation · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · J M Ragen Jr Memorial Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Walsh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Walsh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Landmark Trust Usa Inc: 100% of income from government
How this is measured
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