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Wade Research 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.

$174k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$77k
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.

Environment$593kEducation$199kPhilanthropy$29kYouth Development$5k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $44k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
$53,290
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tall Timbers Research Inc$77,074
The Longleaf Alliance$53,290
University of Arizona$43,783
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%University of Arizona: $44k → 15%Concord Academy: $27k → 8%Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund: $25k → 16%Tall Timbers Research Inc: $77k → 19%The Longleaf Alliance: $55k → 19%Georgia Gwinnett College Foundation: $20k → 9%Georgia Department of Natural Resources: $10k → 13%Orianne Society: $25k → 13%Birdsong Nature Center: $10k → 20%Joseph W Jones Ecological Research Center: $35k → 22%University of Arizona Foundation: $25k → 15%Concord Academy: $1k → 8%Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund: $4k → 16%Tall Timbers Foundation Inc: $46k → 19%The Longleaf Alliance: $53k → 19%Georgia Gwinnett College Foundation: $8k → 9%Captain Planet Foundation: $5k → 13%Orianne Society: $25k → 13%Joseph W Jones Ecological Research Center: $24k → 22%University of Arizona Foundation: $25k → 15%Tall Timbers Foundation Inc: $23k → 19%The Longleaf Alliance: $47k → 19%Orianne Society: $25k → 13%Joseph W Jones Ecological Research Center: $20k → 22%Tall Timbers Research Inc: $17k → 19%Orianne Society: $23k → 13%Joseph W Jones Ecological Research Center: $13k → 22%Tall Timbers Research Inc: $15k → 19%Orianne Society: $10k → 13%Tall Timbers Research Inc: $14k → 19%Tall Timbers Research Inc: $14k → 19%Tall Timbers Research Inc: $12k → 19%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$680k · 8 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$680k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+46%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
EnvironmentEducationScience & TechAnimalsOther
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

  • TT
    TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +194%
  • TO
    THE ORIANNE SOCIETY
    5× · 2019–2023 · $108k · revenue +146%
  • II
    ICHAUWAY INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $92k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Colorado
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • BN
    BIRDSONG NATURE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +46%
  • GD
    GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
Turner Institute of Ecoagriculture Inc

Institute's mission is to research, develop, practice, and disseminate sustainable strategies and techniques for conserving ecosystems, agriculture, and rural communities. institute will achieve this mission by using its livestock, land,…

Science & Tech
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Archbold Expeditions Inc

Archbold expeditions, inc.'s mission is to build and share the scientific knowledge needed to protect the life, lands, and waters of the heart of florida and beyond.

Unclassified
4
Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
5
Avian Research & Conservation Institute Inc

To engage in wildlife research and conservation in the public interest; to manage, preserve, and restore plant and animal species; to make research results available to the public for their use and education; to implement research, analyze…

Environment
6
Georgia Conservancy Inc

To protect georgia through ecological and economic solutions for stewardship, conservation, and sustainable use of the land and its resources.

Environment
7
Ncasi Foundation

The ncasi foundation supports environmental science and data to promote the sustainable use of earth's resources, inform regulatory policy, educate, and execute the charitable activities of ncasi, inc.

Animals
8
Florida Conservation Group Inc

Mission is to seek protection of land and water resources through restoration and conservation; and conducting education and outreach on the ecological and economic importance of natural lands. we protect land from development and protect…

Environment
9
Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…

Environment
10
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
11
Audubon Canyon Ranch Inc

Connecting nature, people, and science for a more resilient world.

Environment
12
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tall Timbers Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ichauway Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LONGLEAF ALLIANCE INC: $154,558 · EnvironmentTHE LONGLEAF ALLIANCE INCTALL TIMBERS FOUNDATION INC: $68,963 · EnvironmentTALL TIMBERS FOUNDATION INCBIRDSONG NATURE CENTER INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentICHAUWAY INC: $91,944 · OtherICHAUWAY INCUniversity of Colorado: $49,523 · OtherUniversity of ColoradoUniversity of Arizona: $43,783 · OtherUniversity of ArizonaGEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES: $9,612 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherTALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC: $149,925 · Science & TechTALL TIMBERS RESEARC…THE ORIANNE SOCIETY: $108,037 · AnimalsTHE ORIANNE SO…University of Arizona Foundation: $50,000 · EducationUniversity of …GEORGIA GWINNETT COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $28,167 · EducationGEORGIA GWINNE…CONCORD ACADEMY: $28,000 · EducationCONCORD ACADEM…FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $28,813 · Community Improvement
Environment$233,521Other$199,862Science & Tech$149,925Animals$108,037Education$106,167Community Improvement$28,813

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE LONGLEAF ALLIANCE INC: $154,558 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC: $149,925 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ORIANNE SOCIETY: $108,037 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetICHAUWAY INC: $91,944 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTALL TIMBERS FOUNDATION INC: $68,963 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $28,813 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA GWINNETT COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $28,167 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCONCORD ACADEMY: $28,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIRDSONG NATURE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCaptain Planet Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Turner Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Turner Foundation IncGA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Turner Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wade Research Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wade Research Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Tall Timbers Research Inc: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to Wade Research Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Wade Research 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 14 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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