· Private foundation
Walther Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $325k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| US Coast Guard Alumni Association | $50,000 |
| KIPP Bay Area Schools | $50,000 |
| Life Learning Academy | $40,000 |
| 826 Valencia | $40,000 |
| Mindful Life Project | $40,000 |
| SMART | $35,000 |
| Reading Partners | $35,000 |
| AIM High | $35,000 |
| Swords to Plowshares | $30,000 |
| Tides Foundation | $25,000 |
| San Francisco Symphony AIM Program | $15,000 |
| The Westminster School Foundation U | $10,000 |
| Blue Bear School of Music | $10,000 |
| San Francisco-Marin Food Bank | $10,000 |
| More Than Words | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- KBKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS8× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +126%
- AHAIM HIGH6× · 2019–2025 · $285k · revenue +103%
- SMSCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $275k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- OTON THE MOVEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +73%
- SFSan Francisco Education Fundone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -22%
- SFSENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIESgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +80%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.
Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.
PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.
See schedule oto realize the transformative potential of middle school. millennium school believes in developing each student to their fullest potential, this involves providing both a rigorous academic program and a science-based…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Schools Mentoring and Resources Team Inc (Smart) and the most unlike its peers is Aim High. 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 25 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 39 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART) ↗
- Who funds 826 Valencia ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Life Learning Academy ↗
- Who funds JUMA VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds OUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ONE PURPOSE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds Mindful Life Project ↗
- Who funds FIRST GRADUATE ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE BEAR SCHOOL of MUSIC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WESTMINSTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ON THE MOVE ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Education Fund ↗
- Who funds Beyond Differences ↗
- Who funds SENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds Project Wreckless ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Robert and Dana Emery Family Foundation Rockefeller Trust Company · Golden State Community Foundation · Quest Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The James Irvine Foundation · Lisa Stone Pritzker Family Fund · Wendell Family 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 organization Walther 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.
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
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.