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Valach Family 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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2022
30
Itemized grants FY2022
28
Organizations funded FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$1.2M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2022
$725,000
States reached, FY2022
8
Total assets, FY2022
$5.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
85% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$886kReligion$73kHealth$72kYouth Development$36kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kHousing & Shelter$18kEnvironment$13kInternational$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Claremont McKenna College$725,00010%
Rose of Sharon Baptist Church$47,5001n/a
Saxon Success Fund$25,0001n/a
Memorial Villages Police Foundation$20,0001n/a
Jackson Hole Land Trust$10,00010%
College of Biblical Studies - Houston$7,50010%
Seven Mile Road Houston Inc$5,0001n/a
Homeless Network of Texas$3,00010%
Toolbox Ministries Inc$2,50010%
Houston Area Women's Center$2,50010%
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All grantees of Valach Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Claremont McKenna College$725,00010%
Rose of Sharon Baptist Church$47,5001n/a
Saxon Success Fund$25,0001n/a
Memorial Villages Police Foundation$20,0001n/a
Jackson Hole Land Trust$10,00010%
College of Biblical Studies - Houston$7,50010%
Seven Mile Road Houston Inc$5,0001n/a
Homeless Network of Texas$3,00010%
Toolbox Ministries Inc$2,50010%
Houston Area Women's Center$2,50010%
Park County Environmental Council$2,50010%
DVine Path Inc$1,00010%
Holy Spirit Episcopal School$1,0001n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco$1,00010%
Cystinosis Research Foundation$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($309k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Valach Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClaremont McKenna College: $725,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJackson Hole Land Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCollege of Biblical Studies - Houston: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHomeless Network of Texas: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetToolbox Ministries Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPark County Environmental Council: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDVine Path Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of San Francisco: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCystinosis Research Foundation: $1,000 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 10.

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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Valach Family Foundation

How much does Valach Family Foundation give?
Valach Family Foundation reported 30 itemized grants totaling $1,189,300, out of $1,486,800 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing.
What does Valach Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (17%), Religion (1%), Health (1%).
Who are Valach Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2022: Claremont McKenna College ($725k), Rose of Sharon Baptist Church ($48k), Saxon Success Fund ($25k).
Does Valach Family 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Valach Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
Where is Valach Family Foundation based?
Valach Family Foundation is based in TX.

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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.8M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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