· Private foundation
Wallace Walter F Jr Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG AMERICAS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $20,000 |
| ASHBROOK CENTER | $20,000 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTION | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN PRIVATE RADIO | $20,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $18,911 |
| ED CHOICE | $15,000 |
| LIBERTAS NETWORK | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF VA | $10,000 |
| THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 62% of its 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YAYoung America's Foundation8× · 2018–2025 · $105k · revenue +50%
- AUASHLAND UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $100k · revenue +7%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC8× · 2018–2025 · $100k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- HFHERITAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $15k
- NCNATURE CONSERVANCY OF S CAROLINAone grant, 2021 · $15k
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
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.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 24 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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds EdChoice Inc ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Susan B Anthony List Education Fund ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Libertas Network ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ASHBROOK CENTER ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wallace Walter F Jr Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wallace Walter F Jr Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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