· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $394k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $301k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERVAL HOUSE | $174,000 |
| OLIVE CREST | $75,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $52,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY | $44,500 |
| NOVA ACADEMY | $43,000 |
| CHOC CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STANTON | $25,000 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES | $23,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BUENA PARK | $20,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TUSTIN | $20,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY | $19,000 |
| THE FRIENDLY CENTER | $19,000 |
| FULLERTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| ORANGE COAST COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| IRVINE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $877k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k 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
INTERVAL HOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $843k · revenue +18%- OCOLIVE CREST9× · 2017–2025 · $499k · revenue +158%
- CUCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $375k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- OSOVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLINDone grant, 2024 · $18k · revenue 0%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COASTgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +27%
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -14%
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.
To inspire and empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring adults.
The foundation's mission is to benefit, support, and enhance the missions of the california community college system.
The foundation's specific and primary purposes are to promote the general welfare of long beach city college by assisting and supporting the attainment of educational, athletic, and cultural goals; by assisting it in fulfilling its role of…
Boys and girls clubs provide a safe place for youth to develop character, leadership, education, career guidance, health, art, sports and fitness while becoming responsible and caring citizens.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as healthy, caring, and responsible adults.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as caring, responsible, productive citizens.
We are committed to breaking the cycle of poverty and creating programs that drive change. by addressing students' basic needs, including food, housing, utilities, transportation, and healthcare, we enable low-income students to enroll,…
To inspire and empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
We enable children and youth in the community, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, healthy, and responsible citizens.
The boys & girls clubs of diablo valley's mission is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Enable young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances to realize their full potential as productive, responsible & caring citizens.
The mission of the club is to inspire and enable youth to achieve academic success, build good character and responsible citizenship, and make healthy lifestyle choices.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Global Glow. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 51 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 INTERVAL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NOVA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDLY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STANTON ↗
- Who funds FULLERTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Orange Coast College Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BUENA PARK ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TUSTIN ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GARDEN GROVE INC ↗
- Who funds Irvine Valley College Foundation ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON BEACH TREE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds SANTIAGO CANYON COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Golden West College Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES TOGETHER OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PROJECT COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Global GLOW ↗
- Who funds JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC ↗
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: 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
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 Waltmar 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.
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.