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Walsh Family Foundation Inc

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.

$233k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Education$495kHousing & Shelter$341kHealth$158kPublic Benefit$90kHuman Services$31kArts & Culture$17kEnvironment$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMES WITH HOPE$100,000
QUINCY RETIRED TEACHERS ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP FUND$65,000
BOSTON COLLEGE$45,000
TOWN OF HANOVER$10,000
WESTPORT EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES$5,000
ST JOHNS HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
DEERFIELD ACADEMY$2,500
WATER 4 LIFE GLOBAL$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WESTPORT WESTON FAMILY YMCA: $21k → 9%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

MT
NY
MA
WY
CT
CA
CO
MD
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 10 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$1.1M
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
0%

Still filing today

80%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentSocial ScienceHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • HW
    HOMES WITH HOPE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $341k · revenue +35%
  • QR
    QUINCY RETIRED TEACHERS ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ATTN LINDA MONACO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +198% · 31% of their budget
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTPORT/WESTON CT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $21k · revenue +66%
  • WP
    WESTPORT PLAYHOUSE
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • WS
    WESTPORT SENIOR CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
4
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
5
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Augustana College

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…

Education
10
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Washington & Jefferson College

To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Montana Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Water4Life Guatemala. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 21 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOMES WITH HOPE: $340,500 · OtherHOMES WITH HOPEGLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR EATING DISORDERS: $127,500 · OtherGLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR EATING DISORDERSTOWN OF HANOVER: $90,000 · OtherTOWN OF HANOVERWESTPORT LIBRARY: $23,000 · Other+3 more: $30,000 · OtherQUINCY RETIRED TEACHERS ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ATTN LINDA MONACO: $280,000 · EducationQUINCY RETIRED TEACHERS ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHI…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $98,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGETHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $55,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATIONTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $23,000 · Education+2 more: $16,000 · EducationALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Social ScienceYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTPORT/WESTON CT INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesSt John's Health Foundation: $5,000 · HealthPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $2,500 · EnvironmentJACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $2,200 · EnvironmentWHITE COLUMNS INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureWater4Life Guatemala: $500 · International
Other$611,000Education$472,000Social Science$25,000Human Services$21,000Health$5,000Environment$4,700Arts & Culture$2,000International$500

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 budgetHOMES WITH HOPE: $340,500 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetQUINCY RETIRED TEACHERS ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ATTN LINDA MONACO: $280,000 over 9y, 31% of budgetGLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR EATING DISORDERS: $127,500 over 6y, 35% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $98,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $23,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTPORT/WESTON CT INC: $21,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE COLUMNS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOUCHER COLLEGE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWater4Life Guatemala: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Walsh Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walsh Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Homes With Hope: 28% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Westport Country Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Goucher College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Walsh Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Walsh Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 21 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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