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Walder 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.

$24M
Granted FY2024still arriving
200
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$22MArts & Culture$15MReligion$14MPhilanthropy$13MHealth$8.8MEnvironment$8.7MHuman Services$6.5MCivil Rights$4.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 200 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $819k
  • $50k–250k145 grants · $13M
  • $250k+22 grants · $10M
$80,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$155M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$2,250,000
LUBAVITCH GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL INC$1,500,000
HILLEL TORAH NORTH SUBURBAN DAY SCHOOL$500,000
LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$482,709
ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES$450,000
MORTON ARBORETUM$388,074
CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY$387,049
SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY$373,382
YESHIVA SHEARIS YISROEL-VEITZENER CHEDER INC$360,000
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH$333,000
ETZION FOUNDATION INC$330,075
NIJC NFP$300,000
RESEARCH CORPORATION$300,000
METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL$300,000
RELIEF RESOURCES INC$275,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $7.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH WOMAN ENTREPRENEUR: $210k → 15%WELCOMING AMERICA INC: $200k → 14%RELIEF RESOURCES INC: $275k → 11%WELCOMING AMERICA INC: $150k → 14%Relief Resources Inc: $100k → 11%WELCOMING AMERICA INC: $150k → 14%Welcoming America Inc: $100k → 14%WELCOMING AMERICA INC: $100k → 14%MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $100k → 8%JEWISH WOMAN ENTREPRENEUR: $175k → 13%HISPANIC AMERICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND SERVICES: $75k → 8%RELIEF RESOURCES INC: $200k → 20%RELIEF RESOURCES INC: $200k → 20%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $100k → 17%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $100k → 17%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $100k → 14%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $100k → 14%ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $90k → 14%ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $90k → 14%SOULU: $250k → 14%SOULU: $100k → 14%SOULU: $100k → 14%SOULU: $100k → 14%FRIENDS OF REFUGEES OF EASTERN EUROPE INC: $90k → 14%INDO AMERICAN CENTER INC: $75k → 14%SOULU: $75k → 14%Vietnamese Association of Illinois: $75k → 14%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $100k → 14%Jewish Child and Family Services: $100k → 14%THE HANA CENTER: $100k → 14%THE HANA CENTER: $80k → 14%The HANA Center: $80k → 14%LATIN WOMEN IN ACTION: $150k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS: $100k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS: $100k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS: $100k → 14%Mujeres Latinas en Accion: $75k → 14%LATIN WOMEN IN ACTION: $75k → 14%LATIN WOMEN IN ACTION: $75k → 14%LIBENU: $120k → 14%LIBENU: $120k → 14%LIBENU: $120k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $75k → 14%LIBENU: $120k → 14%Libenu: $120k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $75k → 14%CHICAGO CHESED FUND INC: $180k → 14%CHICAGO CHESED FUND INC: $115k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
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MA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
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DC
OK
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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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of Walder 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.

Walder Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.9% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$96M · 192 repeat orgs$17M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

192 repeat relationships — 110 still active in FY2024, 82 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

192
105

Total granted

$96M
$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+18%

Still filing today

85%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationInternationalReligionEnvironmentOther

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

  • LG
    LUBAVITCH GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +69% · 45% of their budget
  • RU
    Rush University Medical Center
    4× · 2020–2023 · $3.5M · revenue +30%
  • FM
    FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • HT
    Hebrew Theological College
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M
  • II
    Illinois Institute of Technology
    one grant, 2023 · $540k · revenue +23%
  • JD
    Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov Elementary School - Yeshiva
    one grant, 2021 · $500k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

The Jewish Council on Urban Affair's (JCUA) longstanding mission is to combat poverty, racism and antisemitism working in partnership with diverse communities. JCUA uses a community organizing model to engage the Jewish community in the…

Community Improvement
2
Chicago Cultural Alliance

The Chicago Cultural Alliances mission is to connect, promote, and support centers of cultural heritage for a more inclusive Chicago. We are an active consortium of 50 cultural heritage museums, centers, and historical societies that…

Arts & Culture
3
Chicago Humanities Festival

To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
4
Chicago International Film Festival Inc Cinema-Chicago

Cinema/Chicago, the non-profit 501(c)(3) presenting organization of the Chicago International Film Festival, enriches the community through year-round programming devoted to international and independent cinema. We strengthen communication…

Arts & Culture
5
Third Coast International Audio Festival

To cultivate a growing international culture of listening.

Arts & Culture
6
Latino Union of Chicago

Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.

Human Services
7
Classical Music Chicago

Presenting free high-quality classical music performances and music education experiences in the Chicago metropolitan area for people of all ages and degrees of musical awareness so they can experience how music enriches life.

Arts & Culture
8
Music and Dance Theater Chicago Inc
Arts & Culture
9
The Chicago High School for the Arts

The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…

Education
10
Chicago United

To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.

Philanthropy
11
Chicago Committee On Minorities in Large Law Firms

The chicago committee seeks racial and ethnic diversity in the legal profession by collaborating with its law firm and corporate membership to: drive sustainable institutional change at law firms and corporate legal departments; provide…

Civil Rights
12
Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc

Secure racial equity and economic opportunity for all

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Humanities Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Goldin Institute. 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 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%5%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr13%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr13%35%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.3%1/310
the rest of the field
13%
10,527/80,279

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.

05the grantee network

287 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. 287 of the 356 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.

30
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
76
Early backer (in before they grew)
283/287
Grantees still filing
202/287
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LUBAVITCH GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL INC — $4,500,000 · OtherLUBAVITCH GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL INCTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — $3,424,220 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,620,000 · OtherTHE MORTON ARBORETUM — $1,885,254 · Other+103 more — $44,096,462 · Other+103 moreUniversity of Chicago — $2,345,000 · EducationUniversity of…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $1,605,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS…LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $1,396,677 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVER…DEPAUL UNIVERSITY — $1,048,616 · EducationDEPAUL UNIVER…MESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM — $797,000 · EducationMESIVTA SHAAR…THE MACHON INC — $638,230 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITY — $600,000 · EducationCENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH INC — $554,553 · EducationIllinois Institute of Technology — $540,000 · EducationKEHILLAH JEWISH EDUCATION FUND — $500,000 · EducationYESHIVAS KESSER YONAH — $500,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY LTD — $438,500 · Education+7 more — $1,938,904 · Education+7 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $5,123,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FED…FOREFRONT — $1,925,700 · PhilanthropyFOREFRONTJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $879,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNI…KEREN HAYESHIVOT TRUST — $597,000 · PhilanthropyKEREN HAYE…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $571,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL…UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $500,000 · PhilanthropyThe Chicago Community Trust — $400,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $507,850 · PhilanthropyFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $2,795,918 · Arts & CultureFIELD MUSE…3ARTS INC — $1,400,000 · Arts & Culture3ARTS INCFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER — $500,000 · Arts & CultureUnited States Artists Inc — $440,000 · Arts & Culture+25 more — $5,120,000 · Arts & Culture+25 moreRELIEF RESOURCES INC — $775,000 · Human ServicesSOULU — $750,000 · Human ServicesWELCOMING AMERICA INC — $700,000 · Human ServicesLIBENU — $650,000 · Human ServicesJewish Child and Family Services — $445,000 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH WOMAN ENTREPRENEUR INC — $435,000 · Human ServicesMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION — $425,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS — $386,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS — $370,000 · Human ServicesCHICAGO CHESED FUND — $342,500 · Human ServicesERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $286,000 · Human ServicesTHE HANA CENTER — $260,000 · Human ServicesASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC — $250,000 · Human Services+7 more — $1,128,000 · Human ServicesRush University Medical Center — $3,526,680 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $1,242,386 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HALA — $1,207,583 · HealthMICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST — $500,000 · Health+1 more — $200,000 · HealthCHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGN — $1,650,000 · ReligionETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA — $691,075 · ReligionFAITH IN PLACE — $638,488 · ReligionOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel — $628,000 · ReligionCORE INC — $425,000 · ReligionOPENDOR MEDIA INC — $395,000 · ReligionRAVENSWOOD BUDLONG CONGREGATION — $391,000 · ReligionAGUDATH ISRAEL OF ILLINOIS — $300,000 · ReligionREFUGEEONE — $261,000 · ReligionTHE HINDA INSTITUTE — $260,000 · ReligionMercaz Beth Jacob in Eretz Yisroel — $200,000 · Religion
Other$56,525,936Education$12,902,480Philanthropy$10,503,550Arts & Culture$10,255,918Human Services$7,202,500Health$6,676,649Religion$5,839,563

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $5,123,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLUBAVITCH GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL INC — $4,500,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $3,526,680 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $2,795,918 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $2,345,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOREFRONT — $1,925,700 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetTHE MORTON ARBORETUM — $1,885,254 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGN — $1,650,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $1,605,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $1,410,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budget3ARTS INC — $1,400,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $1,396,677 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights — $1,361,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNorthwestern University — $1,301,180 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $1,299,991 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $1,242,386 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HALA — $1,207,583 over 5y, 100% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $1,150,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY — $1,048,616 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Corporation dba Research Corporation for Science Advancement — $900,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $879,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW — $800,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetRELIEF RESOURCES INC — $775,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetCROSSROADS FUND INC — $750,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetSOULU — $750,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $712,476 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWELCOMING AMERICA INC — $700,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA — $691,075 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $685,452 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLIBENU — $650,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetFAITH IN PLACE — $638,488 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetTHE MACHON INC — $638,230 over 5y, 91% of budgetLATINO POLICY FORUM — $636,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS — $633,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel — $628,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY — $600,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKEREN HAYESHIVOT TRUST — $597,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $571,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE — $560,000 over 4y, 63% of budgetCENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH INC — $554,553 over 2y, 21% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology — $540,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES — $530,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL — $520,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetKEHILLAH JEWISH EDUCATION FUND — $500,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER — $500,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetMICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST — $500,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetIMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC — $500,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds LUBAVITCH GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds FOREFRONT ↗
  • Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGN ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds 3ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HALA ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Research Corporation dba Research Corporation for Science Advancement ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW ↗
  • Who funds MESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM ↗
  • Who funds RELIEF RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SOULU ↗
  • Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WELCOMING AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA ↗

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.

Field Foundation of I…John D and Catherine …Gaylord and Dorothy D…Polk Bros Foundation …Lloyd a Fry FoundationThe Joyce FoundationArie and Ida Crown Me…Jewish Federation of …Circle of Service Fou…The Chicago Community…United Way of Metropo…Builders Vision Found…
Field Foundation of IllinoisIL116.5× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Field Foundation of Illinois · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Builders Vision 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 Walder 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
67report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Walder Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Walder Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 356 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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 camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines