How much does Wallace Research Foundation give?

Wallace Research Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $5,132,787 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Wallace Research Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (40%), Arts & Culture (14%), Health (11%).

Who are Wallace Research Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Archaeology Southwest ($4.2M), Wildcoast ($3.0M), Wild Salmon Center ($2.6M).

Does Wallace Research Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Wallace Research Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wallace Research Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Patagoniaorg.

Where is Wallace Research Foundation based?

Wallace Research Foundation is based in IA.

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Wallace Research Foundation

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.

$5.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 34
Grants FY2025: 28
Organizations funded FY2024: 25%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $110,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $500,000
Organizations funded a year: 27 to 37; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 13
Total assets, FY2025: $84M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Wallace Research Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	27	$4.9M	19%
FY2024	28	$4.3M	25%
FY2023	27	$4.4M	7%
FY2022	34	$5.0M	18%
FY2021	32	$4.2M	19%
FY2020	37	$4.0M	41%
FY2019	36	$4.2M	25%
FY2018	31	$4.0M	39%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$14MArts & Culture$4.9MHealth$3.6MAnimals$3.4MScience & Tech$2.4MEducation$2.1MReligion$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.1MOther$0

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
Archaeology Southwest	$4,208,700	9	32%
Wildcoast	$2,994,700	9	14%
Wild Salmon Center	$2,650,000	8	5%
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc	$1,262,000	9	0%
The Climate Center	$1,200,000	7	12%
Tohono Chul Park Inc	$1,169,000	6	10%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	$1,060,000	5	0%
Wildlife Alliance Inc	$960,000	8	3%
Urbanpromise International	$873,000	6	9%
Polybio Research Foundation Inc	$802,354	2	10%

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All grantees of Wallace Research Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Archaeology Southwest	$4,208,700	9	32%
Wildcoast	$2,994,700	9	14%
Wild Salmon Center	$2,650,000	8	5%
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc	$1,262,000	9	0%
The Climate Center	$1,200,000	7	12%
Tohono Chul Park Inc	$1,169,000	6	10%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	$1,060,000	5	0%
Wildlife Alliance Inc	$960,000	8	3%
Urbanpromise International	$873,000	6	9%
Polybio Research Foundation Inc	$802,354	2	10%
EcoHealth Alliance Inc	$750,000	3	2%
Holy Cross Monastery	$750,000	3	n/a
Tucson Botanical Gardens	$731,000	7	5%
Rural & Migrant Ministry Inc	$721,000	7	7%
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA	$700,000	6	5%
Animal Friends of the Valleys Inc	$633,000	4	3%
AGR Foundation Inc	$572,000	6	36%
Yale University	$541,778	3	n/a
University of Michigan	$500,000	2	77%
The Loomis Institute D/B/A the Loomis Chaffee School	$500,000	3	0%
Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN	$470,000	9	8%
Community Food Bank Inc	$460,000	4	0%
Shorerivers Inc	$430,000	2	3%
Arizona Land and Water Trust Inc	$397,000	4	10%
Brookfield Craft Center Inc	$390,500	5	24%
Tucson Centers for Women & Children Inc Dba Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse	$389,000	7	1%
Pennenvironment Research & Policy Center Inc	$340,000	5	12%
Giraffe Conservation Foundation USA	$330,000	4	8%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$310,000	2	0%
Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc	$306,500	2	12%
Yale University	$298,937	3	n/a
Dancing Classrooms Inc	$288,460	3	5%
Arizona Greyhound & Animal Rescue Fund	$260,000	3	55%
Poughkeepsie Farm Project	$256,000	2	20%
The John Bartram Association	$255,000	4	3%
Jane Doe No More Incorporated	$235,000	1	n/a
The Carl Safina Center Inc the Safina Center	$225,000	2	20%
Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Inc	$200,000	1	4%
The Amerind Foundation Inc	$167,885	3	5%
The Wallace Centers of Iowa	$167,000	1	15%
Humane World for Animals International	$160,000	1	1%
Tostan Inc	$150,000	1	2%
The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc	$140,000	1	5%
Bleeding & Clotting Disorders Institute	$135,000	1	0%
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association	$117,000	3	2%
The Primavera Foundation Inc	$100,000	1	1%
The Digdeep Right to Water Project	$100,000	2	0%
Catskill Mountainkeeper Inc	$100,000	1	7%
Youth Outdoor Experience	$100,000	2	14%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals	$100,000	1	0%
Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Inc	$100,000	1	1%
Zoological Society of San Diego	$85,000	2	0%
Native American Advancement Foundation	$84,500	1	5%
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum	$80,000	1	1%
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc	$80,000	1	0%
Friends of South Georgia Island	$65,000	1	21%
Northern Jaguar Project	$60,000	1	6%
Island Conservation	$60,000	1	1%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$45,000	1	n/a
The Turtle Survival Alliance Foundation	$45,000	1	1%
International Herpetological Symposium Inc	$43,250	1	n/a
University of Arizona Foundation	$39,000	1	0%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp	$35,000	1	1%
Oikonos - Ecosystem Knowledge	$30,000	1	3%
Malpai Borderlands Group Inc	$30,000	1	n/a
Camp Spring Creek Inc	$30,000	1	5%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc	$30,000	1	0%
Outerarts Maryland Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
A T Still University of Health Sciences	$25,000	1	0%
Old Pine Community Center	$25,000	1	4%
Therapeutic Ranch for Animals and Kids	$20,000	1	4%
Vanderbilt University	$20,000	1	0%
Wild Earth Society Incorporated	$10,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.0M), not named here.

Wallace Research Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 65.

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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.

Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ32.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Wallace Research Foundation

How much does Wallace Research Foundation give?: Wallace Research Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $5,132,787 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Wallace Research Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (40%), Arts & Culture (14%), Health (11%).
Who are Wallace Research Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Archaeology Southwest ($4.2M), Wildcoast ($3.0M), Wild Salmon Center ($2.6M).
Does Wallace Research Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wallace Research Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wallace Research Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Patagoniaorg.
Where is Wallace Research Foundation based?: Wallace Research Foundation is based in IA.