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Walske Charitable Foundation Steven C Walske Et Al Trustees

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$375k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of WALSKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION STEVEN C WALSKE ET AL TRUSTEES’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $235k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET$110,000
THE MUSIC CENTER OF LA COUNTY$75,000
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$50,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$25,000
FINE ARTS MUSEUM OF SF DEYOUNG MUSEUM$15,000
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$15,000
CALVARY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS-CHILDREN'S FUND$10,000
PRINCETON PROSPECT FOUNDATION$10,000
BRIDGES IMPACT FOUNDATION$10,000
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA GUILD$10,000
BEVERLY HILLS PRESYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$10,000
BOSTON 2026 WORLD STAMP SHOW$5,000
PHILATELIC FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%SANERGY INC: $20k → 7%BOSTON 2026 WORLD STAMP SHOW: $10k → 8%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%MARTIS CAMP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%BATES COLLEGE: $20k → 13%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%MARTIS CAMP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $90k → 14%BRIDGES IMPACT FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%FINE ARTS MUSEUM OF SF DEYOUNG MUSEUM: $25k → 10%HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $40k → 14%BRIDGES IMPACT FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%FINE ARTS MUSEUM OF SF DEYOUNG MUSEUM: $15k → 10%HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $40k → 14%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $23k → 10%FINE ARTS MUSEUM OF SAN FRANCISCO: $15k → 10%HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $15k → 14%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%THE MUSIC CENTER OF LA COUNTY: $75k → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER OF LA COUNTY: $72k → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER OF LA COUNTY: $50k → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER OF LA COUNTY: $50k → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER OF LA COUNTY: $50k → 14%UCSF FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET: $110k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $100k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET: $100k → 10%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET: $100k → 10%BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT: $25k → 16%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET: $50k → 10%THE WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $25k → 14%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET: $50k → 10%BRIDGES IMPACT FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%SAN FRANCISCO HOST COMMITTEE: $30k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET: $15k → 10%HAMLIN SCHOOL: $155k → 10%HAMMER MUSEUM: $50k → 14%HAMLIN SCHOOL: $70k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $25k → 10%HAMLIN SCHOOL: $25k → 10%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 14%LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $15k → 14%THE BATTERY FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%NET IMPACT: $25k → 10%NET IMPACT: $11k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 28 repeat orgs$275k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
13

Total granted

$2.3M
$260k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+23%

Still filing today

61%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyInternationalHealthReligionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $525k · revenue +37%
  • TH
    THE HAMLIN SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2023 · $263k · revenue +18%
  • HS
    HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL
    4× · 2018–2021 · $185k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +25%
  • AH
    ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -6%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO HOST COMMITTEEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +120%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
3
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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4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
8
Berggruen Institute
Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
10
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
11
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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12
San Francisco Jazz Organization

The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridges Impact Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The David Hockney Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr15%10%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr12%10%35–55yr12%45%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%12%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr19%8%20–35yr12%5%35–55yr12%69%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
14%
11,377/83,105

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
24/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE MUSIC CENTER OF LA COUNTY — $301,600 · OtherTHE MUSIC CENTER OF LA COUNTYTHE HAMLIN SCHOOL — $263,000 · OtherTHE HAMLIN SCHOOLUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $172,500 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONFINE ARTS MUSEUM OF SF DEYOUNG MUSEUM — $60,000 · OtherFINE ARTS MUSEUM OF SF DEYOUNG MUSEUMNET IMPACT — $46,100 · Other+13 more — $254,800 · Other+13 moreSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION — $525,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATIONARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND …CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $35,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON BALLET INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $35,000 · Arts & CultureISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+3 moreHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $185,000 · EducationHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHO…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFOR…Vanderbilt University — $50,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityUCLA FOUNDATION — $45,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONWOMEN FOUNDERS NETWORK — $30,000 · EducationWOMEN FOUNDERS NETWOR…The Trustees of Princeton University — $25,000 · EducationTHE MAX WARBURG COURAGE CURRICULUM INC — $20,000 · EducationPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $20,000 · Education+2 more — $20,000 · EducationBRIDGES IMPACT FOUNDATION — $135,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST — $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,500 · PhilanthropyMARTIS CAMP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA MARTIS CAMP FOUNDATION — $57,500 · Community ImprovementCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 · HealthSANERGY INC — $20,000 · InternationalLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE — $2,500 · Religion
Other$1,098,000Arts & Culture$760,000Education$495,000Philanthropy$167,500Community Improvement$57,500Health$50,000International$20,000Religion$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION — $525,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HAMLIN SCHOOL — $263,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $185,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGES IMPACT FOUNDATION — $135,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARTIS CAMP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA MARTIS CAMP FOUNDATION — $57,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNET IMPACT — $46,100 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC — $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOUNDERS NETWORK — $30,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO HOST COMMITTEE — $30,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA GUILD AT THE WAR MEMORIAL OPERA HOUSE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MAX WARBURG COURAGE CURRICULUM INC — $20,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON 2026 WORLD STAMP SHOW INC — $15,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetPRINCETON PROSPECT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROOM TO READ — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILATELIC FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE DAVID HOCKNEY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…ImpactassetsincGs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA15.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Walske Charitable Foundation Steven C Walske Et Al Trustees funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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