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Wallace 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.

$34k
Granted FY2019
28
Grants FY2019
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$22kScience & Tech$15kEnvironment$10kPhilanthropy$9kRecreation & Sports$5kHuman Services$5kInternational$4kAnimals$3kOther$0
02FY2019 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k27 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$324
Median grant
6
States reached
$617k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$10,000
FPF EDUCATION & INNOVATION FOUNDATION$5,000
FPF EDUCATION & INNOVATION FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
JENNIFER BUSH-LAWSON FOUNDATION$2,500
CITY DOGS RESCUE & CITY KITTIES$1,023
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL$1,020
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION$1,000
RAINFOREST TRUST$1,000
JENNIFER BUSH-LAWSON FOUNDATION$651
RARE$529
YELLOW DOG COMMUNITY & CONSERVATION FOUNDATION$500
ARLINGTON SENIOR BABE RUTH BASEBALL$500
VOLO CITY FOUNDATION$324
JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$300
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL TRUST: $500 → 16%YELLOW DOG COMMUNITY & CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%LITTLE SHELTER ANIMAL RESCUE & ADOPTION CENTER: $400 → 7%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%DONORSCHOOSEORG: $1k → 17%JFK CENTER: $500 → 14%JENNIFER BUSH-LAWSON FOUNDATION: $3k → 4%RAINFOREST TRUST: $1k → 6%ARLINGTON SOCCER ASSOC: $2k → 7%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 8%PROJECT BREAD: $500 → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%JENNIFER BUSH-LAWSON FOUNDATION: $3k → 4%RAINFOREST TRUST: $1k → 6%ARLINGTON SOCCER ASSOC: $1k → 7%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 8%JENNIFER BUSH-LAWSON FOUNDATION: $3k → 4%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $4k → 6%ARLINGTON SENIOR BABE RUTH BASEBALL: $875 → 7%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 8%FPF EDUCATION & INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%JENNIFER BUSH-LAWSON FOUNDATION: $651 → 4%ARLINGTON YMCA: $1k → 7%FUTURE OF PRIVACY FORUM: $5k → 14%ARLINGTON SENIOR BABE RUTH BASEBALL: $500 → 7%FPF EDUCATION & INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SEE STATEMENT ATTACHED: $34k → 6%CONSERVATION FUND: $1k → 7%CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%SEE STATEMENT ATTACHED: $33k → 6%RARE: $529 → 7%CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%SEE STATEMENT ATTACHED: $29k → 6%ARLINGTON SENIOR BABE RUTH BASEBALL: $500 → 7%CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%SEE STATEMENT ATTACHED: $26k → 6%CONSERVATION FUND: $1k → 7%CITY DOGS RESCUE & CITY KITTIES: $1k → 14%SEE STATEMENT ATTACHED: $21k → 6%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1k → 7%NETWORK FOR GOOD: $624 → 14%SEE STATEMENT ATTACHED: $20k → 6%DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN & FAMILIES: $500 → 7%HUMANITAS GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $4k → 14%JUST HOOPS BASKETBALL: $3k → 7%JUST HOOPS BASKETBALL: $3k → 7%JUST HOOPS BASKETBALL: $3k → 7%ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC: $686 → 7%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

MT
NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DE
TN
DC
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59k · 19 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2019, 8 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
21

Total granted

$59k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+44%

Still filing today

63%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
HealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • Cornell University
    2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +49%
  • TJ
    The Jennifer Bush-Lawson Foundation
    3× · 2017–2019 · $8k · revenue +29%
  • AS
    ARLINGTON SOCCER ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • FO
    FUTURE OF PRIVACY FORUM
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -94%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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3
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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9
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
10
Association of Clinical Research Professionals

Acrp promotes excellence in clinical research. we support clinical research professionals through training and development, the exchange of ideas and expertise, and certification. we serve as the preferred source for quality tools,…

Health
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Doorways for Women and Families Inc; the most unlike its peers is Postpartum Support Virginia 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

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
26/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $9,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFUTURE OF PRIVACY FORUM: $5,000 · OtherFUTURE OF PRIVACY FORUMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $4,422 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEHEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $4,188 · OtherHEIFER INTERNATIONALIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION: $4,000 · OtherCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATIONARLINGTON SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $2,785 · OtherARLINGTON SOCCER ASSOCIATION+29 more: $11,162 · Other+29 moreCornell University: $20,216 · EducationCornell UniversityFPF EDUCATION AND INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationFPF EDUCATION AND INNOVATION FOUNDATIO…+2 more: $1,300 · EducationThe Jennifer Bush-Lawson Foundation: $8,151 · PhilanthropyThe Jennif…+3 more: $380 · PhilanthropyTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,000 · EnvironmentRARE: $529 · EnvironmentYellow Dog Community and Conservation Foundation: $500 · EnvironmentRAINFOREST TRUST: $2,000 · International+1 more: $52 · InternationalARLINGTON SENIOR BABE RUTH BASEBALL: $1,875 · Youth DevelopmentChildren's Hospital Corporation: $500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $250 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 · HealthTHE GET IN TOUCH FOUNDATIONINC: $104 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100 · Health+1 more: $30 · Health
Other$44,557Education$31,516Philanthropy$8,531Environment$3,029International$2,052Youth Development$1,875Health$1,184

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $20,216 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFPF EDUCATION AND INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Jennifer Bush-Lawson Foundation: $8,151 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetFUTURE OF PRIVACY FORUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARLINGTON SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $2,785 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC: $886 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Shelter Animal Adoption Center Inc: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $624 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRARE: $529 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYellow Dog Community and Conservation Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Welfare League of Arlington: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYORKTOWN CREW BOOSTERS INC: $340 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GET IN TOUCH FOUNDATIONINC: $104 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOSTPARTUM SUPPORT VIRGINIA INC: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $55 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THIRST PROJECT: $52 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDominion Guild Inc: $50 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $30 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.

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.

Reinsch Pierce Family…Arlington Community F…Greater Washington Co…Washington Forrest Fo…United Way of the Nat…Verizon FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…
Reinsch Pierce Family Foundation IncVA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Reinsch Pierce Family Foundation Inc · Arlington Community Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Washington Forrest Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 56 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $34k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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