Tennessee · Private foundation
Wallace Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $165k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 57
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Wallace Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 50 | $164k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 57 | $173k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $119k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $64k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $67k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $46k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $61k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $72k | 47% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornerstone Academy Inc Lakeway Christian Schools | $102,300 | 1 | 1% |
| United Way of Hamblen County Inc | $71,860 | 9 | 1% |
| Carson-Newman University | $65,584 | 9 | 0% |
| Helen Ross McNabb Foundation | $59,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $29,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Go Tell Ministries F/K/A Go Tell Inc | $9,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Daily Bread Community Kitchen | $9,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Liberty University Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Family Association Inc | $5,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Lakeway Casa Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($516k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wallace Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jefferson Federal Charitable Foundation · Filmtech Foundation Inc · The Rogers Foundation Inc · Jolley Foundation Inc · East Tennessee Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Wallace Foundation
- How much does Wallace Foundation give?
- Wallace Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $165,375 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 57 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wallace Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (29%), Education (23%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are Wallace Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cornerstone Academy Inc Lakeway Christian Schools ($102k), United Way of Hamblen County Inc ($72k), Carson-Newman University ($66k).
- Does Wallace Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wallace Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wallace Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jefferson Federal Charitable Foundation, Filmtech Foundation Inc, The Rogers Foundation Inc.
- Where is Wallace Foundation based?
- Wallace Foundation is based in TN.
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