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Wallace Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$165k
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Religion$269kEducation$217kPhilanthropy$73kHealth$66kRecreation & Sports$52kHuman Services$43kYouth Development$29kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k47 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
$1,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ORLEANS BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEM$30,000
NOLACHUCKY BAPTIST ASSOC DIS RELIEF$16,300
UNITED WAY OF HAMBLEN COUNTY$16,000
VOL CHAPT OF ARMY AVIATION ASSOC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
CHALLENGE GOLF ASSOCIATION$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,575
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$4,000
HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION$3,000
LOVE WORTH FINDING MINISTRIES$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
RUN FOR HOLLAND FOUNDATION$2,500
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY$2,500
DAILY BREAD COMMUNITY KITCHEN$2,500
CARSON NEWMAN UNIVERSITY$2,500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $2k → 14%FINISHING THE WORK INC: $1k → 11%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $2k → 14%LAKEWAY CASA: $1k → 15%LAKEWAY CASA: $1k → 15%LAKEWAY CASA: $1k → 15%LAKEWAY CASA: $1k → 15%LAKEWAY CASA: $1k → 15%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MI
OH
CA
CO
MO
VA
AR
TN
NC
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$737k · 53 repeat orgs$197k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
31

Total granted

$737k
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+37%

Still filing today

26%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
EducationReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF HAMBLEN COUNTY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +2%
  • HR
    HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +115%
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    4× · 2022–2025 · $29k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • CA
    CORNERSTONE ACADEMY INC LAKEWAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $102k · revenue +231%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $12k
  • ET
    EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k

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
Faith School of Theology

Faith's purpose is to mentor students for spirit-filled leadership in ministry, in light of the great commission. while academics are important, the classrooms are not the only learning place. through a combination of formal instruction,…

2
Truett Mcconnell University Inc

The mission of truett mcconnell university, a georgia baptist university, is to equip students to fulfill the great comission by fostering a christian worldview through a biblically centered education in a family-friendly environment.

Education
3
Kentucky Mountain Bible College Inc

To educate and prepare students for biblical gospel ministry as educators, pastors, and foreign missionaries.

Education
4
Paul White Ministries

Present the gospel

Religion
5
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

6
Todd Worldwide Ministries
Housing & Shelter
7
Portersville Christian School

The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…

Education
8
Pursue Ministries

Pursue Ministries has the mission to pursue an eternal impact by introducing others to Jesus Christ, teaching the Bible and training disciples through one-on-one meetings, small groups, resources, retreats and seminars.

Religion
9
Christian Educational Ministries

To share the gospel of jesus christ to the world, to teach & equip the disciples of christ, to teach & train the next generation, to bring the people of god closer together using radio, social media, print literature & other audio & video…

Religion
10
Florida Southern College

Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…

Education
11
For the Gospel Ministries

Support local churches, leaders, and christians from around the world through online content that strengthens and affirms their life in christ. committed to using every means possible to reach every age and life stage with the gospel…

Religion
12
South Florida Bible College & Theological Seminary Inc

South florida bible college & theological seminary is an institution of higher learning where the bible is central in preparing men and women for ministry to serve christ and his church through biblical thought and christian life.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Run for Holland. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…United Way FederationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Child and Family ServicesGovernment Accountability R…Homeless Services & ShelterHospice Care ServicesIndependent K-8 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr17%10%10–20yr13%17%20–35yr11%30%35–55yr24%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr17%3%10–20yr13%10%20–35yr11%35%35–55yr24%49%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
13%
4,628/36,361

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 94 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)
28/30
Grantees still filing
17/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW ORLEANS BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEM — $105,000 · OtherNEW ORLEANS BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMIndividual grant recipient — $77,865 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFCA — $50,400 · OtherFCANEW ORLEANS BAPTIST SEMINARY — $41,000 · OtherNEW ORLEANS BAPTIST SEMINARYCHALLENGE GOLF ASSOCIATION — $22,500 · Other+68 more — $255,760 · Other+68 moreCORNERSTONE ACADEMY INC LAKEWAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $102,300 · EducationCORNERSTONE ACADEMY IN…CARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY — $65,584 · EducationCARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSI…+6 more — $18,500 · Education+6 moreUNITED WAY OF HAMBLEN COUNTY INC — $71,860 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,200 · PhilanthropyHELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION — $59,750 · HealthFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $29,000 · Youth DevelopmentKINGSWOOD HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentGO TELL MINISTRIES F/K/A GO TELL INC — $9,500 · ReligionAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 · ReligionLOVE WORTH FINDING MINISTRIES INC — $5,000 · ReligionGOTELL MINISTRIES INC — $2,000 · ReligionDr James Dobson Family Institute — $1,500 · ReligionLAKEWAY CASA INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL — $4,000 · Human ServicesFINISHING THE WORK INC — $1,000 · Human Services
Other$552,525Education$186,384Philanthropy$73,060Health$59,750Youth Development$33,000Religion$23,000Human Services$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCORNERSTONE ACADEMY INC LAKEWAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $102,300 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HAMBLEN COUNTY INC — $71,860 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetCARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY — $65,584 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION — $59,750 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $29,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGO TELL MINISTRIES F/K/A GO TELL INC — $9,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDAILY BREAD COMMUNITY KITCHEN — $9,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAKEWAY CASA INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLOVE WORTH FINDING MINISTRIES INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKINGSWOOD HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMILLIGAN UNIVERSITY — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRUN FOR HOLLAND — $2,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetMINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION TEMPORARY SHELTER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGOTELL MINISTRIES INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMORRISTOWN EMERGENCY RESCUE SQUAD — $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBULGARIAN CHILD INC — $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDr James Dobson Family Institute — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAPESTRY FOR WOMEN INC — $1,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTHE ROGERS FOUNDATION INC — $1,200 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRIDGWAY MINISTRIES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFINISHING THE WORK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 CORNERSTONE ACADEMY INC LAKEWAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF HAMBLEN COUNTY INC
  • Who funds CARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
  • Who funds GO TELL MINISTRIES F/K/A GO TELL INC
  • Who funds DAILY BREAD COMMUNITY KITCHEN
  • Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds LAKEWAY CASA INC
  • Who funds LOVE WORTH FINDING MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds KINGSWOOD HOME FOR CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds MILLIGAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE

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.

Jefferson Federal Charitable FoundationTN22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wallace 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 · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–25%
    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.

    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 94 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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