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Wallace Genetic Foundation II Inc at a glance

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Wallace Genetic Foundation II Inc

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.

$5.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$75MEnvironment$13MInternational$7.1MEducation$2.1MHealth$2.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.0MFood & Nutrition$1.7MArts & Culture$830kOther$0
02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $580k
  • $50k–250k32 grants · $2.8M
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.5M
$50,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$112M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW VENTURE FUND$1,525,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$410,000
CERES INC$300,000
WATER ENGINEERS FOR THE AMERICAS$255,000
SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$205,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA$180,000
MILLENNIUM WATER ALLIANCE$160,000
DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE BOARD OF REGENTS NSHE$150,000
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NETWORK$125,000
ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC$110,000
H2O FOR LIFE$105,000
GLOBAL HEALTH COUNCIL$100,000
CONSERVATION LANDS FOUNDATION$100,000
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION$100,000
NATIONAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE COMMON MARKET: $60k → 22%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

ME
VT
WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IA
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 80 repeat orgs$69M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

80 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
48

Total granted

$26M
$69M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+35%

Still filing today

79%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentInternationalEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CI
    CERES INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +65%
  • WE
    WATER ENGINEERS FOR THE AMERICAS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +316% · 30% of their budget
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    7× · 2018–2025 · $900k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • CD
    CORNELL DOUGLAS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $65M · revenue -83% · 88% of their budget
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +89%
  • SU
    Southern Utah Wilderness Alliancegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +134%
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
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
2
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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3
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
6
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
7
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
8
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
9
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
10
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
11
Rainforest Trust

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

International
12
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Corteva Agriscience Foundation. 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

109 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. 109 of the 138 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)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
107/109
Grantees still filing
77/109
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CORNELL DOUGLAS FOUNDATION INC: $64,565,890 · PhilanthropyCORNELL DOUGLAS FOUNDATION INC+4 more: $2,435,000 · PhilanthropyNEW VENTURE FUND: $8,375,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDCERES INC: $1,425,000 · EnvironmentCERES INCEARTHJUSTICE: $900,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $875,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $710,000 · Environment+37 more: $6,525,000 · Environment+37 moreCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $1,987,000 · OtherCATHOLIC …UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $590,000 · OtherUNIVERSIT…DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $570,000 · OtherDESERT RE…US WATER PARTNERSHIP: $455,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $350,000 · Other+45 more: $4,688,000 · Other+45 moreWATER ENGINEERS FOR THE AMERICAS: $1,115,000 · InternationalThe End Fund Inc: $875,000 · InternationalENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC: $640,000 · InternationalWATERAID AMERICA INC: $590,000 · InternationalGlobal Health Council: $520,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $500,000 · InternationalH2O FOR LIFE: $460,000 · InternationalBread for the World Institute: $430,000 · InternationalFamily Health International Inc: $295,000 · InternationalINTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC: $260,000 · InternationalPACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT & SECURITY: $260,000 · InternationalTRANSFORM INTERNATIONAL: $250,000 · International+8 more: $860,000 · InternationalTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $700,000 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $275,000 · EducationEmory University: $210,000 · EducationCornell University: $195,000 · EducationTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $195,000 · EducationRESULTS EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $140,000 · EducationCOLORADO PLATEAU FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationThe George Washington University: $75,000 · EducationENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOC OF NM: $75,000 · Education+2 more: $100,000 · EducationMILLENNIUM WATER ALLIANCE: $665,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WALLACE CENTERS OF IOWA: $652,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $200,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $115,000 · Arts & CultureVILLAGE HEALTH PARTNERSHIP: $500,000 · HealthST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthACOG FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthCenter for Environmental Health: $25,000 · Health
Philanthropy$67,000,890Environment$18,810,000Other$8,640,000International$7,055,000Education$2,065,000Arts & Culture$1,632,000Health$725,000

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 budgetCORNELL DOUGLAS FOUNDATION INC: $64,565,890 over 1y, 88% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $8,375,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,880,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCERES INC: $1,425,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetWATER ENGINEERS FOR THE AMERICAS: $1,115,000 over 8y, 30% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $900,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $875,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetThe End Fund Inc: $875,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $710,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $700,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMILLENNIUM WATER ALLIANCE: $665,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetTHE WALLACE CENTERS OF IOWA: $652,000 over 8y, 26% of budgetENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC: $640,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetWATERAID AMERICA INC: $590,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NETWORK: $555,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetConservation Lands Foundation: $550,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetGlobal Health Council: $520,000 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetVILLAGE HEALTH PARTNERSHIP: $500,000 over 8y, 29% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetH2O FOR LIFE: $460,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetUS WATER PARTNERSHIP: $455,000 over 4y, 80% of budgetBread for the World Institute: $430,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $415,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL ENVIRONMENT & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $295,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetFamily Health International Inc: $295,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $275,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOLD-GROWTH FOREST NETWORK INC: $270,000 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetAPPALACHIAN VOICES: $265,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $265,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetINTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC: $260,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetPACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT & SECURITY: $260,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $260,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $250,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTRANSFORM INTERNATIONAL: $250,000 over 5y, 48% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $225,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC: $225,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA: $225,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC: $220,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetEmory University: $210,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROTARIAN SAFE WATER AND SANITATION FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 83% of budgetSANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST: $200,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetCornell University: $195,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $195,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE: $195,000 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc: $195,000 over 8y, 2.2% 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 CORNELL DOUGLAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CERES INC ↗
  • Who funds WATER ENGINEERS FOR THE AMERICAS ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds The End Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
  • Who funds MILLENNIUM WATER ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE WALLACE CENTERS OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC ↗
  • Who funds WATERAID AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Conservation Lands Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Global Health Council ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE HEALTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds H2O FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds US WATER PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Bread for the World Institute ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Family Health International Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds OLD-GROWTH FOREST NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN VOICES ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
  • Who funds INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT & SECURITY ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗

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.

Wallace Genetic Found…PatagoniaorgGates FoundationResources Legacy FundCornell Douglas Found…New Venture FundThe Rockefeller Found…Conrad N Hilton Found…Farvue Foundation IncWellsprings Family Fo…Clif Family FoundationThe Marisla Foundation
Wallace Genetic Foundation IncDC45.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wallace Genetic Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Gates Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Cornell Douglas Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · The Rockefeller Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Farvue Foundation Inc · Wellsprings Family Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · The Marisla 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 Genetic Foundation II Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wallace Genetic Foundation II Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Nature Forward: 32% of income from government
  • Anacostia Watershed Society Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Wallace Genetic Foundation II Inc?

Find your warmest path to Wallace Genetic Foundation II Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 138 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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