How much did WALT & TERI BETTINGER FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of WALT & TERI BETTINGER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

athletic

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $100
$10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$50k–250k2 grants · $163k
$250k+2 grants · $3.0M

$102,500

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants

INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$2,300,000
CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$723,126
ADA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS$102,500
KINWELL ACADEMY$60,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES NE OHIO FINS CLUB BASEBALL$15,000
VERTICAL RAISE (TALLMADGE HIGH SCHOOL)$100

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 9%. 98% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.5M · 8 repeat orgs$422k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.5M

$244k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+40%

Still filing today

50%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

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INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +20%
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DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
2× · 2018–2023 · $413k · revenue +236%
ON
OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY
3× · 2017–2019 · $230k · revenue +16%

Funded once

TS
THE SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND
one grant, 2021 · $121k
AL
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGEgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +40%
OH
OHIO'S HOSPICE LIFE CARE
one grant, 2019 · $20k

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.

Allen University

Allen University is an academic community which provides students an opportunity to obtain baccalaureate and graduate degrees in liberal arts and professional programs.

Education

Augustana College

Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.

Education

Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education

Wilson College

Wilson college is a private, liberal arts institution committed to access and affordability in higher education. degrees are offered in 34 undergraduate majors with 40 minors as well as 10 graduate-level programs of study.

Education

Warren Wilson College

Warren wilson college's distinctive approach to education (continued on schedule o) intentionally integrates academics, work, and community engagement to cultivate curiosity, empathy, and integrity. we empower graduates to pursue…

Education

The Woodlands Christian Academy

TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school.

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Houghton University

A nationally ranked christian university founded by the wesleyan church.

Education

Davidson Academy

Davidson academy offers a strong christian foundation for college preparation by nurturing spiritual, intellectual, physical, and social growth in an interdenominational setting.

Education

Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education

Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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California Baptist University

A private institution of higher education, offering students undergraduate and graduate courses.

Education

Drew University

The university offers graduate and undergraduate studies and is comprised of the college of liberal arts, the theological school, and the caspersen school of graduate studies.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Northern University and the most unlike its peers is Ada Athletic Boosters Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/11

Grantees still filing

9/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,738,413Education$4,115,772Recreation & Sports$107,500

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

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation WALT & TERI BETTINGER FOUNDATION 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ADA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 341845331 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ADA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 86% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Walt & Teri Bettinger Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Walt & Teri Bettinger Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WALT & TERI BETTINGER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Walt & Teri Bettinger Foundation?

More from the funding graph

WALT & TERI BETTINGER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Walt & Teri Bettinger Foundation?

More from the funding graph