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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF THE CHEAT RIVER | $25,000 |
| FCNL EDUCATION FUND | $25,000 |
| TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN WHITEWATER | $15,000 |
| HOLT ELWELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HOMEOPATHS WITHOUT BORDERS | $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 |
| WEST VIRGINA LAND TRUST INC | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF SOURTHERN TIER | $5,000 |
| BROOKS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| PENDLE HILL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Walbridge Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against -27% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- HMHOLT-ELWELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OPERATING CAMP MOWGLIS9× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +71%
- AWAmerican Whitewater9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +44%
- HWHOMEOPATHS WITHOUT BORDERS9× · 2017–2025 · $89k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- WTWISSAHICKON TRAILSone grant, 2022 · $45k
MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue ×17- IFISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INCone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
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.
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradles to Crayons Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 42 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 FCNL EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds HOLT-ELWELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OPERATING CAMP MOWGLIS ↗
- Who funds American Whitewater ↗
- Who funds HOMEOPATHS WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds A SPRING OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD ↗
- Who funds Pendle Hill ↗
- Who funds TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE WEST VIRGINIA LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE ↗
- Who funds MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE SOUTHERN FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP DONATIONS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC ↗
- Who funds Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association Inc ↗
- Who funds JACKS GALORE INC ↗
- Who funds COCONINO COUNTY HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ITHACA HEALTH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PILLARS OF LIGHT AND LOVE ↗
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: 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
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 Walbridge Family 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.
- American Whitewater — 5% of income from government
- Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 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.