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Wall 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.

$117k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$616kArts & Culture$116kReligion$88kPublic Safety & Disaster$58kYouth Development$40kHealth$35kHuman Services$16kAnimals$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hampden Sydney College$50,000
Woodberry Forest School$14,000
Virginia Historical Society$12,500
University of Virginia Foundation$10,500
George Mason University$5,000
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington$4,000
Northern Neck Free Clinic$2,000
American University$2,000
Wicomico Parish Church$2,000
Boys' Home Inc$2,000
Northumberland Family YMCA$2,000
Northern Neck Orchestra$2,000
Leadership Prince William$1,500
Shrine Mont$1,500
Smith Point Sea Rescue$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 57% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington: $10k → 14%George Mason University: $18k → 6%Prince William Police Survivors Trust: $5k → 7%University of Virginia Foundation: $16k → 8%Woodberry Forest School: $18k → 11%Shrine Mont: $5k → 12%Hampden Sydney College: $50k → 20%Virginia Historical Society: $18k → 22%Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington: $5k → 14%George Mason University: $18k → 6%Prince William Police Survivors Trust: $5k → 7%University of Virginia Foundation: $16k → 8%Woodberry Forest School: $18k → 11%Hampden Sydney College: $35k → 20%Diocese of Virginia: $17k → 22%George Mason University: $18k → 6%Prince William Police Survivors Trust: $5k → 7%University of Virginia Foundation: $14k → 8%Woodberry Forest School: $17k → 11%Hampden Sydney College: $35k → 20%Virginia Historical Society: $13k → 22%George Mason University: $10k → 6%Prince William Police Survivors Trust: $5k → 7%University of Virginia Foundation: $13k → 8%Woodberry Forest School: $16k → 11%Hampden Sydney College: $30k → 20%Virginia Historical Society: $10k → 22%University of Virginia Foundation: $12k → 8%Woodberry Forest School: $16k → 11%Hampden Sydney College: $25k → 20%Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: $10k → 22%University of Virginia Foundation: $11k → 8%Woodberry Forest School: $16k → 11%Hampden Sydney College: $25k → 20%Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: $9k → 22%University of Virginia Foundation: $11k → 8%Woodberry Forest School: $14k → 11%Hampden Sydney College: $25k → 20%Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: $9k → 22%University of Virginia Foundation: $9k → 8%Woodberry Forest School: $14k → 11%Hampden Sydney College: $20k → 20%Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: $9k → 22%University of Virginia Foundation: $6k → 8%Woodberry Forest School: $14k → 11%Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: $8k → 22%Diocese of Virginia: $7k → 22%Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: $7k → 22%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.

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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$993k · 27 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
5

Total granted

$993k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+196%

Still filing today

56%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • HC
    HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +76%
  • WF
    WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $142k · revenue +47%
  • UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • WA
    William and Mary
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • CP
    Crew Program- Rappahanock Concert Association
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • SH
    Sentara Health Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $1k

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
Norfolk Collegiate School

To educate a diverse body of students to thrive in a college setting and beyond.

Education
2
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
3
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
4
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

5
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc

Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.

Education
6
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.

Education
7
University of Virginia Alumni Association

The mission of the alumni association is to build the strongest bond among alumni and between alumni and the university by serving all alumni and students; being the center for engaging and connecting the global uva community; acting as a…

Education
8
William & Mary Foundation

The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…

Education
9
Washington and Lee University

Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…

Education
10
William & Mary Real Estate Foundation

The mission of william and mary real estate foundation is to acquire, hold, manage, sell, lease, and participate in the development of real properties in support of the educational goals of the college of william and mary in virginia.

11
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
12
University of Lynchburg

The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Virginia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Youth Club of Lancaster County 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
15/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE — $250,000 · EducationHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGEWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL — $142,400 · EducationWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION — $106,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATIONBOYS HOME INC — $18,000 · Education+2 more — $14,000 · EducationGeorge Mason University — $87,500 · OtherGeorge Mason UniversityVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $51,250 · OtherVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE — $40,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON A…Prince William Police Survivors Trust — $40,000 · OtherPrince William Police Survivors TrustDIOCESE OF VIRGINIA — $34,700 · OtherDIOCESE OF VIRGINIAAquia Church — $21,500 · OtherAquia ChurchWicomico Parish Church — $20,000 · OtherINOVA Healthcare Foundation — $17,500 · OtherNorthern Neck Free Clinic — $16,750 · OtherNorthumberland Family YMCA — $15,000 · Other+12 more — $50,600 · Other+12 moreVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $56,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN NECK ORCHESTRA CORPORATION — $7,000 · Arts & CultureSHRINE MONT INCORPORATED — $7,500 · Recreation & SportsYOUTH CLUB OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEADERSHIP PRINCE WILLIAM — $2,000 · Public Benefit
Education$530,400Other$394,800Arts & Culture$63,000Recreation & Sports$7,500Youth Development$2,000Public Benefit$2,000

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 budgetHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE — $250,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL — $142,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION — $106,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $56,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE — $40,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS HOME INC — $18,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD — $9,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSMITH POINT SEA RESCUE — $9,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetFAIRFIELDS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $9,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSHRINE MONT INCORPORATED — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN NECK ORCHESTRA CORPORATION — $7,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetVIRGINIA CRIMINAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetYOUTH CLUB OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLEADERSHIP PRINCE WILLIAM — $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $500 over 1y, 1.4% 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 HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE
  • Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE
  • Who funds BOYS HOME INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD
  • Who funds SMITH POINT SEA RESCUE
  • Who funds FAIRFIELDS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
  • Who funds SHRINE MONT INCORPORATED
  • Who funds NORTHERN NECK ORCHESTRA CORPORATION
  • Who funds VIRGINIA CRIMINAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds YOUTH CLUB OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP PRINCE WILLIAM
  • Who funds NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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.

The Community Foundation IncVA15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Wall 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 Wall Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Wall 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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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