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Wallace Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$341k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$710kReligion$390kEducation$330kHealth$80kFood & Nutrition$68kInternational$63kCommunity Improvement$60kHousing & Shelter$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $238k
$35,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NJ HIGHLANDS COALITION$100,000
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$75,000
FEEDING AMERICA$63,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
CONVENANT HOUSE$35,000
ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY$15,000
OXFAM AMERICA$13,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$5,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 11%THE AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 11 repeat orgs$218k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
7

Total granted

$1.7M
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
0%

Still filing today

36%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $460k · revenue +59%
  • TC
    THE CRAIG SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $235k · revenue +45%
  • GS
    Great Swamp Watershed Association
    5× · 2018–2022 · $145k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -7%
  • RH
    Raritan Headwaters CO Cindy Ehrencl
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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2
Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc

We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.

Food & Nutrition
3
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
4
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
Food Bank Association of New York State

The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…

Food & Nutrition
7
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
8
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
9
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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10
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
11
International Crops Research Institute

To reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics

International
12
Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Inc

To lead a network of partners to alleviate hunger, prevent food waste, and nourish the communities we serve. our vision is that all people have the nutritious food they need to thrive.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oxfam-America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fairleigh Dickinson University. 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

11 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. 11 of the 23 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF MORRISTO: $205,000 · OtherUNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF MORRISTOUNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $185,000 · OtherUNITED METHODIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $125,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFDU SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $85,000 · OtherFDU SCHOLARSHIP FUNDCHILDRENS DYSLEXIA CENTERS OF NJ: $80,000 · OtherCHILDRENS DYSLEXIA CENTERS OF NJASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ENVIRONME: $75,000 · OtherASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMEASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY: $60,000 · OtherASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEYCONVENANT HOUSE: $35,000 · Other+6 more: $47,000 · OtherNEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION: $460,000 · EnvironmentNEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITIONGreat Swamp Watershed Association: $145,000 · EnvironmentGreat Swamp Watershed AssociationTHE CRAIG SCHOOL: $235,000 · EducationTHE CRAIG SCHO…Fairleigh Dickinson University: $10,000 · EducationFeeding America: $63,000 · Food & NutritionCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $50,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $13,000 · InternationalAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,000 · Human ServicesGood Shepherd Mission Inc: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$897,000Environment$605,000Education$245,000Food & Nutrition$63,000International$63,000Human Services$16,000

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 budgetNEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION: $460,000 over 9y, 13% of budgetTHE CRAIG SCHOOL: $235,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetGreat Swamp Watershed Association: $145,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetFeeding America: $63,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Mission Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $5,000 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 NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds THE CRAIG SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Great Swamp Watershed Association ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Fairleigh Dickinson University ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Mission Inc ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗

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.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University: 2% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report 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 23 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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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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