· Private foundation
Wallace Research Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k10 grants · $355k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILDCOAST | $400,000 |
| WILD SALMON CENTER | $400,000 |
| MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $270,000 |
| POLYBIO RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $220,000 |
| URBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL INC | $210,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR THE DELAWARE ESTUARY | $200,000 |
| POLYBIO RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| ARCHAEOLOGY SOUTHWEST | $200,000 |
| SHORERIVERS INC | $180,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY | $172,000 |
| THE WALLACE CENTERS OF IOWA | $167,000 |
| EASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY | $150,000 |
| WILDCOAST | $146,700 |
| ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST | $142,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $339k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Wallace Research Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ASArchaeology Southwest8× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +58% · 32% of their budget
- WWILDCOAST8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +80%
WILD SALMON CENTER7× · 2018–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +274%
Funded once
- PPOLYBIOone grant, 2023 · $570k
- HWHumane World for Animals Internationalgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $160k · revenue +114%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISone grant, 2022 · $150k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
We work to connect people, wildlife, and lands across the u.s.-mexico border through the use of science, advocacy, educational activities, community engagement, and on-the-ground conservation initiatives. our main activities include…
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.
Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.
To mobilize people in local communities around the world to protect marine wildlife and the oceans and inland watersheds that sustain them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Salmon Center and the most unlike its peers is A T Still University of Health Sciences. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
66 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 91 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Archaeology Southwest ↗
- Who funds WILDCOAST ↗
- Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
- Who funds TOHONO CHUL PARK INC ↗
- Who funds The Climate Center ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds EcoHealth Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds URBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS OF THE VALLEYS INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL & MIGRANT MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ↗
- Who funds AGR Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds POLYBIO RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN ↗
- Who funds BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PENNENVIRONMENT RESEARCH & POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Dancing Classrooms Inc ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Greyhound & Animal Rescue Fund ↗
- Who funds POUGHKEEPSIE FARM PROJECT ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Southwest Foundation for Education & Historical Preservation · Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Arizona Community Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · The Nature Conservancy · David S & Norma R Lewis Foundation
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 Research 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc — 100% of income from government
- Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Inc — 69% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
- EcoHealth Alliance Inc — 24% of income from government
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Giraffe Conservation Foundation Usa — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
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.