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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 FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $2.8M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.2M
$110,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$84M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILD SALMON CENTER$500,000
WILDCOAST$400,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$400,000
POLYBIO RESEARCH FOUNDATION$352,354
ARCHAEOLOGY SOUTHWEST$300,000
SHORERIVERS INC$250,000
HARVARD$249,000
JANE DOE NO MORE$235,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$159,733
EASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY$156,500
WILDCOAST$150,000
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY$150,000
TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS$150,000
URBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL INC$125,000
ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST$125,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $414k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OLD PINE COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 22%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $75k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $64k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $50k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $50k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $50k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $50k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $50k → 15%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

AK
VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
MD
DE
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Wallace Research Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Wallace Research Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35M · 54 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
36

Total granted

$35M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+14%

Still filing today

70%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $779k 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
EnvironmentAnimalsEducationArts & CultureInternationalScience & TechOther
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

  • AS
    Archaeology Southwest
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +58% · 32% of their budget
  • W
    WILDCOAST
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +80%
  • WILD SALMON CENTER
    8× · 2018–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +274%

Funded once

  • P
    POLYBIO
    one grant, 2023 · $570k
  • PF
    PARTNERSHIP FOR THE DELAWARE ESTUARY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue 0%
  • TW
    THE WALLACE CENTERS OF IOWA
    one grant, 2024 · $167k · revenue -37%
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
Rainforest Trust

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

International
2
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
3
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
4
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
5
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
6
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
Sustainable Conservation

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…

Environment
9
Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals
10
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
11
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
12
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Salmon Center; 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.
05the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 97 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/71
Grantees still filing
51/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Archaeology Southwest: $4,208,700 · OtherArchaeology SouthwestTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY - ARIZONA: $988,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY - ARIZONAMICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $820,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $809,022 · OtherPOLYBIO RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $802,354 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY - TENNESSEE: $752,800 · OtherHOLY CROSS MONASTERY: $750,000 · OtherRURAL & MIGRANT MINISTRY INC: $721,000 · OtherANIMAL FRIENDS OF THE VALLEYS INC: $633,000 · Other+37 more: $7,832,955 · Other+37 moreWILDCOAST: $2,994,700 · EnvironmentWILDCOASTMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $1,262,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SO…TOHONO CHUL PARK INC: $1,169,000 · EnvironmentTOHONO CHUL PARK INCTUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS: $731,000 · EnvironmentTUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENSSHORERIVERS INC: $430,000 · EnvironmentARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC: $397,000 · EnvironmentPENNENVIRONMENT RESEARCH & POLICY CENTER INC: $340,000 · EnvironmentEASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $306,500 · Environment+8 more: $955,000 · Environment+8 moreWILD SALMON CENTER: $2,650,000 · AnimalsWILD SALMON CENTE…WILDLIFE ALLIANCE INC: $960,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE ALLIANCE…EcoHealth Alliance Inc: $750,000 · AnimalsEcoHealth Allianc…Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $700,000 · AnimalsLewa Wildlife Con…AGR Foundation Inc: $572,000 · AnimalsAGR Foundation In…+6 more: $567,000 · Animals+6 moreThe Climate Center: $1,200,000 · EducationThe Clima…Yale University: $651,410 · EducationYale Univ…THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $500,000 · EducationTHE LOOMI…Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: $470,000 · EducationSouthern …President and Fellows of Harvard College: $249,000 · EducationPresident…+4 more: $114,000 · EducationURBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL: $873,000 · InternationalGIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA: $330,000 · InternationalTOSTAN INC: $150,000 · International+2 more: $65,000 · InternationalWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $1,060,000 · Science & TechASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY INC: $80,000 · Science & Tech+1 more: $30,000 · Science & TechBROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC: $390,500 · Arts & CultureDancing Classrooms Inc: $288,460 · Arts & CultureTHE WALLACE CENTERS OF IOWA: $167,000 · Arts & CultureARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM: $80,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL HERPETOLOGICAL SYMPOSIUM INC: $43,250 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $35,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$18,318,331Environment$8,585,200Animals$6,199,000Education$3,184,410International$1,418,000Science & Tech$1,170,000Arts & Culture$1,004,210

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 budgetArchaeology Southwest: $4,208,700 over 9y, 32% of budgetWILDCOAST: $2,994,700 over 9y, 14% of budgetWILD SALMON CENTER: $2,650,000 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $1,262,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetThe Climate Center: $1,200,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetTOHONO CHUL PARK INC: $1,169,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $1,060,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLIFE ALLIANCE INC: $960,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetURBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL: $873,000 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetPOLYBIO RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $802,354 over 2y, 10% of budgetEcoHealth Alliance Inc: $750,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS: $731,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetRURAL & MIGRANT MINISTRY INC: $721,000 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $700,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetYale University: $651,410 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL FRIENDS OF THE VALLEYS INC: $633,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetAGR Foundation Inc: $572,000 over 6y, 36% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $500,000 over 2y, 77% of budgetTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $500,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: $470,000 over 9y, 8.3% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $460,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHORERIVERS INC: $430,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC: $397,000 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetBROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC: $390,500 over 5y, 24% of budgetTUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $389,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetPENNENVIRONMENT RESEARCH & POLICY CENTER INC: $340,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetGIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA: $330,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $310,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $306,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetDancing Classrooms Inc: $288,460 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetArizona Greyhound & Animal Rescue Fund: $260,000 over 3y, 55% of budgetPOUGHKEEPSIE FARM PROJECT: $256,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetTHE JOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION: $255,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $249,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARL SAFINA CENTER INC THE SAFINA CENTER: $225,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE DELAWARE ESTUARY INC: $200,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetThe Amerind Foundation Inc: $167,885 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetTHE WALLACE CENTERS OF IOWA: $167,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetHumane World for Animals International: $160,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTOSTAN INC: $150,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetBLEEDING & CLOTTING DISORDERS INSTITUTE: $135,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION: $117,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetThe Primavera Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCATSKILL MOUNTAINKEEPER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetYOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE: $100,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Archaeology Southwest ↗
  • Who funds WILDCOAST ↗
  • Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Climate Center ↗
  • Who funds TOHONO CHUL PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds URBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds POLYBIO RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EcoHealth Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds RURAL & MIGRANT MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS OF THE VALLEYS INC ↗
  • Who funds AGR Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHORERIVERS INC ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE ↗
  • Who funds PENNENVIRONMENT RESEARCH & POLICY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wallace Research Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wallace Research Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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.

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 97 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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