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Walter S Pierce Foundation Inc 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.

$47k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$12,500
Organizations funded a year
12 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$937k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Walter S Pierce Foundation Inc Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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$47k0%
FY202412$39k0%
FY202312$50k0%
FY202212$38k0%
FY202113$35k8%
FY202013$36k0%
FY201913$40k0%
FY201815$37kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$110kHousing & Shelter$62kReligion$46kFood & Nutrition$43kHealth$34kHuman Services$12kYouth Development$9kEnvironment$7k

Top grantees

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

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($167k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Walter S Pierce Foundation Inc Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMetropolitan Ministries Inc: $34,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Tampa Inc: $28,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLove Inc of Metro Tampa Inc: $25,200 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetJudeo Christian Health Clinic Inc: $24,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetFeeding America Tampa Bay Inc: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLifePath Hospice Inc: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetComputer Mentors Group Inc: $9,300 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTampa Bay Watch Inc: $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity Cafe Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Spring of Tampa Bay Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 10.

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.

The Spurlino FoundationFL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Spurlino Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · New York Yankees Tampa Foundation Inc · Clark Family Fund Inc · Jacarlene Foundation · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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.

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How do I get to Walter S Pierce Foundation Inc Inc?

Find your warmest path to Walter S Pierce Foundation Inc 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.

About Walter S Pierce Foundation Inc Inc

How much does Walter S Pierce Foundation Inc Inc give?
Walter S Pierce Foundation Inc Inc reported 11 grants totaling $47,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Walter S Pierce Foundation Inc Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Housing & Shelter (19%), Religion (14%).
Who are Walter S Pierce Foundation Inc Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Metropolitan Ministries Inc ($35k), Meals on Wheels of Tampa Inc ($29k), Love Inc of Metro Tampa Inc ($25k).
Does Walter S Pierce Foundation Inc Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Walter S Pierce Foundation Inc Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Walter S Pierce Foundation Inc Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Spurlino Foundation, Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc, New York Yankees Tampa Foundation Inc.
Where is Walter S Pierce Foundation Inc Inc based?
Walter S Pierce Foundation Inc Inc is based in FL.

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 16 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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