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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.

$958k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.5MHealth$2.4MHuman Services$1.0MArts & Culture$150kEnvironment$50kScience & Tech$45kPublic Benefit$35kHousing & Shelter$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+2 grants · $850k
$28,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$600,000
COOKS CHILDRENS HEALTH FOUNDATION$250,000
FORT WORTH BOTANIC GARDEN$50,000
COWTOWN CANCER COALITION$28,000
FORT WORTH REPORT$10,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ALEDO CHILDREN'S ADVOCATS: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.7M · 12 repeat orgs$605k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
14

Total granted

$6.7M
$267k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+26%

Still filing today

67%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $338k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationScience & TechHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    Cook Children's Medical Center
    4× · 2018–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +108%
  • TC
    TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2019–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +38%
  • FW
    FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • FW
    FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • TA
    Tarrant Area Food Bank
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +9%
  • CA
    CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF PARKER COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +32%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
2
Cook Children's Physician Network

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
3
Texas Children's Health Plan

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.

Health
4
Cook Children's Health Plan

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
5
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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6
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
7
Tarrant County Bar Association

The association exists to advance the science of jurisprudence; to facilitate and improve the administration of justice; to maintain and to elevate standards of professional conduct; to increase professional skills through regular…

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8
Texas Children's Urgent Care

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

Health
9
Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health
10
Texas Children's Hospital Foundation

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

Health
11
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
12
Children's Hospital Association of Texas

To advance children's health and well-being by advocating for policies and funding that promote children's access to high-quality, comprehensive health care.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Tarrant County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Texas Christian University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
17/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSIT: $2,515,000 · OtherTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITCOOKS CHILDRENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherCOOKS CHILDRENS HEALTH FOUNDATIONFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY: $150,000 · Other+16 more: $240,000 · Other+16 moreCook Children's Medical Center: $2,115,500 · HealthCook Children's Medical Center+3 more: $25,000 · HealthTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $1,680,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $200,000 · EducationFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL…+1 more: $5,000 · EducationBOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC: $45,000 · Science & TechFORT WORTH REPORT: $35,000 · Public BenefitTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF PARKER COUNTY: $20,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$3,155,000Health$2,140,500Education$1,885,000Science & Tech$45,000Public Benefit$35,000Housing & Shelter$30,000Crime & Legal$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCook Children's Medical Center: $2,115,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $1,680,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFORT WORTH REPORT: $35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF PARKER COUNTY: $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetRIVERTREE ACADEMY: $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTarrant County Jr Livestock Show Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetA WISH WITH WINGS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJordan Elizabeth Harris Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR - NORTH TEXAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALEDO CHILDRENS ADVOCATS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Amon G Carter Foundat…Communities Foundatio…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Paul E Andrews Jr Fou…The Morris FoundationThe Roach Foundation …Garvey Texas Foundati…Sid W Richardson Foun…Thomas M Helen McKee …Winn-Dunaway Family F…AllianceTexas Foundat…
Community Foundation of North Texas (TaxTX23.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Amon G Carter Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation · The Morris Foundation · The Roach Foundation Inc · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Winn-Dunaway Family Foundation · AllianceTexas Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Walsh Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Walsh Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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