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Wallace Walter F Jr Memorial Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$239k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 10
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
11
Total assets, FY2025
$2.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Wallace Walter F Jr Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$184k27%
FY202410$149k20%
FY20239$145k22%
FY20228$124k38%
FY20217$93k29%
FY20206$60k0%
FY20196$50k17%
FY20187$55kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$510kPublic Benefit$200kYouth Development$105kPhilanthropy$98kEnvironment$59kCivil Rights$54kInternational$49kArts & Culture$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
IN
OH
CA
UT
VA
AZ
SC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Young America's Foundation$105,00080%
Ashland University$100,00070%
Judicial Watch Inc$100,00080%
EdChoice Inc$100,00080%
Campusreformorg$55,0004n/a
Water Missions International$48,69830%
Susan B Anthony List Education Fund$20,00030%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$20,00020%
Alliance Defending Freedom$18,91110%
Heritage Foundation$15,0001n/a
Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Wallace Walter F Jr Memorial Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Young America's Foundation$105,00080%
Ashland University$100,00070%
Judicial Watch Inc$100,00080%
EdChoice Inc$100,00080%
Campusreformorg$55,0004n/a
Water Missions International$48,69830%
Susan B Anthony List Education Fund$20,00030%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$20,00020%
Alliance Defending Freedom$18,91110%
Heritage Foundation$15,0001n/a
The Heritage Foundation$15,00010%
Libertas Network$15,00010%
Friends of the Ashbrook Center$10,000118%
Turning Point USA Inc$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($232k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wallace Walter F Jr Memorial Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYoung America's Foundation: $105,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAshland University: $100,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $100,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEdChoice Inc: $100,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWater Missions International: $48,698 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSusan B Anthony List Education Fund: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance Defending Freedom: $18,911 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLibertas Network: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Ashbrook Center: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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 12.

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About Wallace Walter F Jr Memorial Foundation

How much does Wallace Walter F Jr Memorial Foundation give?
Wallace Walter F Jr Memorial Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $238,911 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Wallace Walter F Jr Memorial Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Public Benefit (17%), Youth Development (9%).
Who are Wallace Walter F Jr Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Young America's Foundation ($105k), Ashland University ($100k), Judicial Watch Inc ($100k).
Does Wallace Walter F Jr Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wallace Walter F Jr Memorial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Wallace Walter F Jr Memorial Foundation based?
Wallace Walter F Jr Memorial Foundation is based in IL.

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 24 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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