· Private foundation
Wade a and Ruby O Wallinger 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLY COMFORTER CHURCH | $50,000 |
| THE HIVE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SOUTH PACIFIC COUNTY HUMANE SOCIIET | $5,000 |
| VILLAGE LEARNING CENTER | $5,000 |
| FOSTER'S HOME FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| NEW HORIZONS OF NW FL | $4,000 |
| HOLY COMFORTER LUTHER CHURCH | $3,000 |
| HAAM | $2,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON | $2,000 |
| KINGWOOD ROBOTICS BOOSTER CLUB | $2,000 |
| LUTHERHILL MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| STAR OF HOPE MISSION | $2,000 |
| NONPAREIL INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| HUMBLE ISD FOUNDATION | $1,040 |
| REASON FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TVTHE VILLAGE LEARNING CENTER INC6× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +103%
- SMSHERWOOD & MYRTIE FOSTER'S HOME FOR CHILDREN2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +362%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $3k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- RORMHC OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INCone grant, 2022 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- CRCOLUMBIA RIVER INTER-TRIBAL FISH COone grant, 2023 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Mission: to provide inclusive sports, health, and leadership programs that enable individuals with idd to develop skills, improve health, and participate fully in their communities.vision: to be the leading organization in washington state…
The mission of special olympics wisconsin, inc. is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing…
Community support for Developmentally Disabled Adults, with a main emphasis on helping people to obtain and maintain real jobs in local businesses.
To develop the skills of individuals with abilities by providing opportunities for suitable, sustainable employment that result in greater independence. Individuals with abilities to be engaged in valuable work, integrated into their…
The organization operates primarily on the Southern Kenai Peninsula and its operations include the following:Community Mental Health - Counseling, evaluation, consultation and crisis mental health services for Adults and…
To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.
To enable individuals who have developmental and/or physical disabilities to have the opportunity to attain their highest level of skills, purpose and independence.
Through year-round sports and training, individuals with intellectual disabilities are given the chance to gain confidence, seek opportunities to improve their physical fitness, demonstrate pride, and participate in their communities.
Operation of a Facility for training the severely handicapped to increase thier earning capabilities and to increase opportunities for health and wellness.
Summerhouse Houston's supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), their familites, and our community through employment, volunterism, and partnerships to foster a culture of belonging, choice and respect.
The Whole Person connects people with disabilities to the resources they need by supporting independent choice and advocating for positive change in the community.
The special olympics movement uses sport as a vehicle for acceptance, respect, inclusion, dignity, and joy. we provide year-round sports training and competition for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Star of Hope Mission and the most unlike its peers is Ocean Park Food Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHERWOOD & MYRTIE FOSTER'S HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA POVERTY RESPONSE PPR ↗
- Who funds NONPAREIL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds The Arc Gateway Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Pedal with Pete Inc ↗
- Who funds OCEAN PARK FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds BIBLEPROJECT ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Oregon Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Wade a and Ruby O Wallinger Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Arc Gateway Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.