California · Private foundation
Waltmar 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.
- $751k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $174,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Waltmar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $751k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $670k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $499k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $497k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $498k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $460k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $476k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $470k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interval House | $843,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Olive Crest | $498,700 | 9 | 0% |
| Chapman University | $375,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $353,200 | 9 | n/a |
| Nova Academy | $282,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Choc Foundation | $217,300 | 9 | 0% |
| Friendly Center Inc | $146,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Stanton | $145,300 | 7 | 5% |
| Orange Coast College Foundation | $121,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Fullerton College Foundation | $121,000 | 9 | 3% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($896k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Waltmar Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Foundation for California Community Colleges · Angels Baseball Foundation Inc · Samueli Foundation · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
About Waltmar Foundation
- How much does Waltmar Foundation give?
- Waltmar Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $750,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Waltmar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (38%), Education (31%), Youth Development (19%).
- Who are Waltmar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Interval House ($843k), Olive Crest ($499k), Chapman University ($375k).
- Does Waltmar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Waltmar Foundation 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 Waltmar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, O L Halsell Foundation, Foundation for California Community Colleges.
- Where is Waltmar Foundation based?
- Waltmar Foundation is based in CA.
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