How much does Walbridge Family Foundation give?

Walbridge Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $173,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Walbridge Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (28%), Public Benefit (13%), Food & Nutrition (11%).

Who are Walbridge Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fcnl Education Fund ($195k), Holt-Elwell Memorial Foundation Operating Camp Mowglis ($138k), American Whitewater ($135k).

Does Walbridge Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Walbridge 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 Walbridge Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc.

Where is Walbridge Family Foundation based?

Walbridge Family Foundation is based in PA.

Walbridge Family Foundation

Walbridge Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Walbridge Family Foundation

Its FY2025 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

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 2025.

Environment$438kPublic Benefit$195kFood & Nutrition$176kYouth Development$163kAnimals$123kHealth$123kReligion$95kInternational$72kOther$0

02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k7 grants · $29k
$10k–50k9 grants · $145k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FRIENDS OF THE CHEAT RIVER	$25,000
FCNL EDUCATION FUND	$25,000
TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH	$20,000
HOLT ELWELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION	$15,000
HOMEOPATHS WITHOUT BORDERS	$15,000
AMERICAN WHITEWATER	$15,000
PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIAITON FOR	$10,000
ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE	$10,000
A SPRING OF HOPE	$10,000
THE FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST INC	$5,000
FOOD BANK OF SOURTHERN TIER	$5,000
PENDLE HILL	$5,000
BROOKS SCHOOL	$5,000
WEST VIRGINA LAND TRUST INC	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$3,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of Walbridge Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Walbridge Family Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 25 repeat orgs$132k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against -27% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%

-27%

Still filing today

68%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentFood & NutritionHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

HM
HOLT-ELWELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OPERATING CAMP MOWGLIS
9× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +71%
AW
American Whitewater
9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +44%
HW
HOMEOPATHS WITHOUT BORDERS
9× · 2017–2025 · $89k · revenue +1%

Funded once

WT
WISSAHICKON TRAILS
one grant, 2022 · $45k
MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue ×11
IF
ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC
one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue 0%

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.

Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition

Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition

Wedontwaste Inc

We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.

Food & Nutrition

Food Connect Co

At food connect, we're dedicated to bridging the gaps in our food system, working to end hunger and fostering healthier communities through our innovative initiatives and programs. we build scalable technologies that support last-mile…

Food & Nutrition

Field & Fork Network

Field & fork network connects communities to innovative solutions that foster a sustainable food system. the 4 areas of focus include: food access, agriculture economic development, youth development and healthy neighborhoods.

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Franklin Land Trust Inc

The franklin land trust works to conserve farms, forests, wildlands, and other natural resources significant to the quality of the environment, economy, and rural character of western massachusetts.

Environment

The Food Alliance

Food alliance works at the juncture of science, business and values to define and promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, and to ensure safe and fair working conditions, humane treatment of animals, and careful…

Arts & Culture

Westchester Land Trust Inc

The primary mission of the Westchester Land Trust is to conserve, maintain and enhance the natural environment and resources of Westchester County and eastern Putnam County. The Trust acquires interests in land exhibiting important natural…

Environment

Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust

To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.

Environment

The Central New York Land Trust Inc

The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.

Environment

Coastal Mountains Land Trust

We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.

Environment

Food Bank of Central New York

Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradles to Crayons Inc; the most unlike its peers is Homeopaths Without Borders. 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

27 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. 27 of the 42 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/27

Grantees still filing

19/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$676,350Environment$249,500Public Benefit$195,000Recreation & Sports$137,500Food & Nutrition$126,000Health$94,500International$72,000

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

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA11.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Walbridge Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walbridge Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home