· Private foundation
Waldman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $13,625 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $5,000 |
| THE CHOSEN HOUSE | $5,000 |
| LIGHT MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTI | $5,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $3,500 |
| WORLD VISION | $3,360 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,530 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,500 |
| NAVIGATORS | $700 |
| LINCOLN COUNTY CHILD WELL BEING | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +143% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FVFINISTERRE VISION5× · 2017–2023 · $30k · revenue +143%
Mercy Ships International7× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +251%
LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC4× · 2017–2023 · $2k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- LOLIFE OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES INCone grant, 2022 · $5k
- CFCHANDLER FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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.
To spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ internationall through church planting, equipping pastors & volunteers, and providing humanitarian aid.
Evangelistic and mission programs
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.
To further the cause of world peace and understanding by facilitating free medical services, primarily to children suffering from heart defects and other similar or allied illnesses regardless of race, gender, creed, or national origin,…
Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…
To minister to peoples physical and spiritual needs
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds FINISTERRE VISION ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds Light Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHANGE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Waldman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waldman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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