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Wallace 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.

$107k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Arts & Culture$439kEducation$241kHealth$82kPhilanthropy$9kFood & Nutrition$7kAnimals$3kRecreation & Sports$500Public Benefit$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $92k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Vanderbilt University$40,000
Brookgreen Gardens$30,000
Bon Secours St Francis Foundation$11,500
The Citadel$10,000
Proctor Academy$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation$2,000
The Chandler School$1,000
Fund for Davidson College$1,000
Metropolitan Arts Council$1,000
Warehouse Theater$1,000
International Ballet$1,000
Camperdown Academy$1,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Sarah Gossett Home: $5k → 10%Foster Paws: $3k → 15%Brookgreen Gardens: $30k → 15%Lakes Bridges Charter School: $5k → 16%Autism Pensacola: $5k → 16%Proctor Academy: $5k → 7%Citidel: $10k → 12%Brookgreen Gardens: $30k → 15%The Citadel: $10k → 12%Brookgreen Gardens: $30k → 15%The Citadel: $10k → 12%Brookgreen Gardens: $30k → 15%SC Childrens Theatre: $13k → 10%Citidel: $10k → 12%Brookgreen Gardens: $30k → 15%Five Fish Foundation: $5k → 12%Brookgreen Gardens: $30k → 15%Gateway House: $5k → 10%Citidel: $5k → 12%Brookgreen Gardens: $26k → 15%Brookgreen Gardens: $25k → 15%Bon Secours St Francis Foundation: $22k → 10%Citidel: $5k → 12%Brookgreen Gardens: $25k → 15%Greenville County Museum of Art: $18k → 10%Metropolitan Arts Council: $15k → 10%Warehouse Theatre: $15k → 10%Citidel: $5k → 12%Childrens Museum of the Upstate: $12k → 10%Bon Secours St Francis Foundation: $12k → 10%Metropolitan Arts Council: $11k → 10%The Citadel: $5k → 12%Greenville County Museum of Art: $10k → 10%St Francis Foundation: $10k → 10%Peace Center for the Performing Art: $10k → 10%Metropolitan Arts Council: $10k → 10%St Francis Foundation: $10k → 10%Greenville County Museum of Art: $9k → 10%Greenville County Museum of Art: $9k → 10%Greenville County Museum of Art: $9k → 10%Community Foundation: $5k → 10%Community Foundation: $3k → 10%FAVOR: $5k → 10%FAVOR: $5k → 10%Camperdown Academy: $30k → 10%Camperdown Academy: $11k → 10%Camperdown Academy: $10k → 10%International Ballet: $26k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

NH
MI
NY
WV
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.
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.
$709k · 19 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
26

Total granted

$709k
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+14%

Still filing today

68%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 & CultureHealthEnvironmentPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BG
    BROOKGREEN GARDENS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $256k · revenue +52%
  • Vanderbilt University
    6× · 2018–2025 · $96k · revenue +65%
  • CA
    CAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • SC
    SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue -64%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +21%
  • LB
    Lakes Bridges Charter School
    one grant, 2018 · $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.

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.

1
Carolina Art Association Dba Gibbes Museum of Art

The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…

Arts & Culture
2
Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art

The mission of green hill center for nc art is to promote the visual arts of north carolina by engaging a broad community of artists, adults and children through dynamic exhibitions and educational programs while providing a platform for…

Arts & Culture
3
Greenville Theatre Arts Center
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4
Workshop Theatre of South Carolina

Our mission is to cultivate a vibrant space where the arts are celebrated, all voices are amplified, and the power of live theatre brings people together. at workshop theatre, we are dedicated to enriching our community by providing access…

Arts & Culture
5
South Carolina Artisans Center

Cultural and educational resource

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6
Centre Stage-South Carolina Inc

Centre stage is a non-profit 501(c)(3) performing arts venue and theatre organization that exists to captivate audiences with diverse programming, cultivate local artistry, and inspire community collaboration.

Arts & Culture
7
Atlanta Contempory Art Center Inc

Dedicated to the creation, presentation and advancement of contemporary art through its exhibitions, educational programming and studio art program.

Arts & Culture
8
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
9
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
10
Carolina Collaborative Prep

Carolina collaborative prep (ccp) is a non-profit academic center that serves students in grades 3-12 with learning differences, empowering them to thrive in school and in life.

Education
11
Capitol Center for the Arts

The mission of the capitol center for the arts is to inspire, educate, and entertain audiences by providing both the finest venues for the performing arts and a wide range of professionally excellent and artistically significant…

Arts & Culture
12
South Carolina Arts Alliance

Advances and promotes the arts for all south carolinians through advocacy, leadership, development and public awareness.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of the Upstate Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Sculpture Society 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

26 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. 26 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROOKGREEN GARDENS: $255,600 · EnvironmentBROOKGREEN GARDENSGreenville County Museum of Art: $54,286 · OtherGreenville County Museum of ArtMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL: $39,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCILCitidel: $35,000 · OtherCitidelBon Secours St Francis Foundation: $33,000 · OtherBon Secours St Francis FoundationThe Citadel: $25,000 · OtherThe CitadelSt Francis Foundation: $20,000 · OtherSt Francis Foundation+23 more: $39,200 · Other+23 moreVanderbilt University: $96,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityCAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC: $57,500 · EducationCAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INCPROCTOR ACADEMY: $6,848 · EducationFIVE FISH FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Education+3 more: $5,860 · EducationINTERNATIONAL BALLET: $29,275 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONA…THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE: $16,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WAREHOUS…PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION: $13,500 · Arts & CulturePEACE CENTER…SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $12,500 · Arts & CultureSOUTH CAROLI…CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC: $12,143 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S M…+2 more: $2,250 · Arts & CultureFAVOR INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $9,400 · PhilanthropyGATEWAY HOUSE INC: $5,000 · HealthCUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthCANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE: $500 · Health
Environment$255,600Other$245,486Education$172,208Arts & Culture$85,668Youth Development$10,000Philanthropy$9,400Health$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBROOKGREEN GARDENS: $255,600 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetVanderbilt University: $96,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC: $57,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL: $39,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BALLET: $29,275 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTHE WAREHOUSE THEATRE: $16,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC: $12,143 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $9,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOST INC: $6,850 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY: $6,848 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIVE FISH FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetAUTISM PENSACOLA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHARLESTON HOPE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Chandler School: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA FE ART INSTITUTE INC: $1,360 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWARRIOR SURF FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharleston Miracle League Inc: $500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds CAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL BALLET ↗
  • Who funds THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOST INC ↗
  • Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds FIVE FISH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM PENSACOLA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLESTON HOPE ↗
  • Who funds CUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds The Chandler School ↗
  • Who funds SANTA FE ART INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds WARRIOR SURF FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE ↗

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.

Scsymmes FoundationDaniel-Mickel Foundat…The Jolley FoundationJean T and Heyward G …Yeargin FoundationCharity Ball Board of…Hayne Hipp FoundationJohn I Smith Charitie…Neill M Timmons Found…Charles Timmons Found…Elbert W Rogers Found…Bill and Connie Timmo…
Scsymmes FoundationMO26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scsymmes Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · Yeargin Foundation · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Hayne Hipp Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Neill M Timmons Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Elbert W Rogers Foundation · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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