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Waddell Foundation Inc

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.

$46k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$46kHousing & Shelter$43kArts & Culture$40kPhilanthropy$33kCrime & Legal$26kYouth Development$25kHuman Services$25kCommunity Improvement$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$731k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JOHN & JANICE WYATT FOUNDATION$15,000
CASA OF THE MID-SHORED$5,000
ONE MISSION CAMBRIDGE$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE DOR CTY LIBRARY$3,455
MIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY$3,000
DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$3,000
ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY$3,000
ST ANDREWS FOOD BANK$2,000
MID-SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$2,000
CHOPTANK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$1,000
DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$1,000
CSDHS SPORTS BOOSTERS INC$1,000
CHESAPEAKE HOUSING MISSION$1,000
DORCHESTER CNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$500
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 (FY19–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%COURAGEOUS HEARTS HORSEMANSHIP: $1k → 15%COURAGEOUS HEARTS HORSEMANSHIP: $1k → 15%ONE MISSION CAMBRIDGE: $5k → 15%ALPHA GENESIS CDC: $5k → 15%ONE MISSION CAMBRIDGE: $5k → 15%ONE MISSION CAMBRIDGE: $5k → 15%DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $3k → 15%DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $3k → 15%ALPHA GENESIS CDC: $2k → 15%DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $1k → 15%DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $1k → 15%DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1k → 15%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Waddell Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Waddell Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$279k · 39 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
23

Total granted

$279k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+86%

Still filing today

56%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CO
    CASA OF TALBOT COUNTY INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $26k · revenue +75%
  • OM
    ONE MISSION CAMBRIDGE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +112%
  • TP
    THE PINE STREET COMMITTEE INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALAVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • PF
    PAULINE F & DAVID ROBBINS FAMILY YM
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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.

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Harborside Center for the Arts Inc
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2
Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc
Arts & Culture
3
Brunswick Main Street Inc

To oversee and encourage economic and social development of the brunswick mainstreet section of brunswick md

Community Improvement
4
Chesapeake Bay Housing Inc

Charitable and educational purposes including, but not limited to, the provision and operation of decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable housing and related supportive services for low income individuals.

Housing & Shelter
5
Chesapeake Islands Research Center Inc
Environment
6
The Watermen's Museum

To preserve and promote the role that the chesapeake bay watermen played in the shaping of our nation through a historical display of crafts and methods of their trade.

Arts & Culture
7
Captain Avery Museum Inc

To collect, preserve, and share local chesapeake history celebrating the culture around the chesapeake bay - past, present, and future - through oral histories, collections, exhibitions, and community outreach.

Arts & Culture
8
Chesapeake Heritage Conservancy Inc

Educational charters on the chesapeake bay and it's tributaries for students and adults. thousands of passengers sailed on our floating museum for an educational experience.

Environment
9
Maryland Technology Museum Inc
Arts & Culture
10
Dorchester Skipjack Committee Inc

Educational sails on an oyster dredging skipjack

Arts & Culture
11
Tibbetts Point Lighthouse Historical Society Inc

Museum of lighthouse and marine artifacts

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12
Chesapeake Center Inc

The center operates a facility for the training and care of the handicapped and elderly.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Harvesting Hope Youth and Families Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 66 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
18/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABIT FOR HUMANITY: $14,500 · OtherHABIT FOR HUMANITYST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY: $12,850 · OtherST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETYHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHOPTANK INC: $11,850 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHOPTANK INCSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $10,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAULNANTICOKE HIST PRESERVATION ALLIANC: $7,500 · OtherDR THERESA STAFFORD'S NEW BEGINNINGS LEARNING ACADEMY INC: $12,000 · OtherDR THERESA STAFFORD'S NEW BEGINNINGS LEARNING ACADEMY INCHARRIETS HOUSE: $8,000 · OtherMIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY INC: $8,850 · Other+40 more: $89,895 · Other+40 moreONE MISSION CAMBRIDGE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesONE MISSION…DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $9,101 · Human ServicesDELMARVA CO…ALPHA GENESIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $6,500 · Human ServicesALPHA GENES…COURAGEOUS HEARTS HORSEMANSHIP INC: $2,800 · Human ServicesCOURAGEOUS …JOHN AND JANICE WYATT FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyJOHN AND JA…MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyMID SHORE C…CASA OF TALBOT COUNTY INC: $25,500 · Civil RightsCAMBRIDGE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureDORCHESTER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureBROWN BOX THEATRE PROJECT INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureCHESAPEAKE CHAMBER MUSIC INC T/A CHESAPEAKE MUSIC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureDORCHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE FRIENDS OF STANLEY INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PINE STREET COMMITTEE INC: $12,500 · Community ImprovementJAMES G BUSICK TENNUS FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Community ImprovementCAMBRIDGE MAIN STREET INC: $3,000 · Community ImprovementANCHOR POINT INC: $11,000 · EnvironmentSHORERIVERS INC: $6,500 · Environment
Other$175,445Human Services$33,401Philanthropy$33,000Civil Rights$25,500Arts & Culture$22,500Community Improvement$18,500Environment$17,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHN AND JANICE WYATT FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCASA OF TALBOT COUNTY INC: $25,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetONE MISSION CAMBRIDGE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE PINE STREET COMMITTEE INC: $12,500 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetDR THERESA STAFFORD'S NEW BEGINNINGS LEARNING ACADEMY INC: $12,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHOPTANK INC: $11,850 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetANCHOR POINT INC: $11,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetDELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $9,101 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY INC: $8,850 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHARRIETS HOUSE: $8,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCAMBRIDGE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetALPHA GENESIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $6,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSHORERIVERS INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDORCHESTER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE HOUSING MISSION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY RADIO INC: $3,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBROWN BOX THEATRE PROJECT INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CHAMBER MUSIC INC T/A CHESAPEAKE MUSIC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE MAIN STREET INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAWAKEN HEARTS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetFOR ALL SEASONS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAILWINDS PARK INC: $2,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHarvesting Hope Youth and Families Services: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDORCHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Mid Shore Community F…Pauline F & W David R…The Nathan Foundation…Dock Street FoundationThe Seip Family Found…The Llandaff Family T…Maryland Humanities C…The Wyman Family Foun…T & M Mitchell Fdn Di…Richard and Peggy Gre…Franklin P and Arthur…Nora Roberts Foundati…
Mid Shore Community Foundation IncMD48.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust · The Nathan Foundation Inc Ima Co Robert S · Dock Street Foundation · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · The Llandaff Family Trust · Maryland Humanities Council Inc · The Wyman Family Foundation Inc · T & M Mitchell Fdn Dima-Blrk · Richard and Peggy Greenfield Foundation · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts 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 Waddell Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waddell Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Dorchester Center for the Arts Inc: 47% of income from government
  • For All Seasons Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Shorerivers Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity Choptank Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Chamber Music Inc T/a Chesapeake Music: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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

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How do I get to Waddell Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Waddell Foundation Inc 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 66 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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