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Walton R Etal Trs Walton Fam Fnd-Agy
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $173k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GRANT FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| ONTEORA HISTORIC PRESERVATION TRUST | $20,000 |
| ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART IN | $20,000 |
| TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND | $18,000 |
| PITTSBURGH MUSKOKA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| INITIATIVE | $15,000 |
| MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| THE YOUNG CENTER | $10,000 |
| CORNUCOPIA | $10,000 |
| B INSPIRED PHILADELPHIA | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON | $10,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL ARIZONA LAND TRUST INC | $10,000 |
| THE ORME SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NEW JERSEY STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION | $6,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 21% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
38 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
- TETHE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC5× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +138%
- TPTHE PITTSBURGHMUSKOKA FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +23%
- YTYELLOWSTONE TO YUKON3× · 2020–2023 · $57k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- CACENTRAL ARIXONA LAND TRUSTone grant, 2021 · $30k
- YTYELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATIONone grant, 2022 · $22k
- PSPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · 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.
To preserve, steward, and connect people to the land in northern chester county pennsylvania. see additional information on schedule o.french & pickering is recognized as a leader in regional land conservation, the organization is…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Pittsburgh Botanic Garden inspires people to value plants, garden design and the natural world by cultivating plant collections of the Allegheny Plateau and temperate regions, creating display gardens, conducting educational programs and…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Saves open space, cares for nature, and connects people to the outdoors. (See schedule O)
Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocking the Boat Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Grant Foundation. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 73 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 THE GRANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGHMUSKOKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ARIZONA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ONTEORA HISTORIC PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds GROW PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLDWOMENWORK ↗
- Who funds Big Waters Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CORNUCOPIA INC ↗
- Who funds EYE AND EAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds B INSPIRED PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds CONEMAUGH VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS ↗
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 Pittsburgh Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · C F Holdship Charitable Trust · Eden Hall Foundation · Summit Foundation · Armstrong-McKay Foundation · Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · The Cigna Group Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · National Fish and Wildlife 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 Walton R Etal Trs Walton Fam Fnd-Agy 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
- The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% 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.
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