· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $779k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ASArchaeology Southwest9× · 2017–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +58% · 32% of their budget
- WWILDCOAST9× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +80%
WILD SALMON CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +274%
Funded once
- PPOLYBIOone grant, 2023 · $570k
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR THE DELAWARE ESTUARY INCone grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue 0%
- TWTHE WALLACE CENTERS OF IOWAone 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.
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.
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.
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
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."
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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…
Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
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.
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.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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