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Woodward Walsh Foundation at a glance

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Woodward Walsh 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.

$188k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$251kInternational$202kEducation$63kAnimals$45kCrime & Legal$25kFood & Nutrition$10kArts & Culture$10kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCSF FOUNDATION$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
DUPAGE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION$25,000
MERCY FOR ANIMALS$10,000
DUNELM USA$10,000
THE AUTHORS GUILD FOUNDATION$10,000
REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS$10,000
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS$10,000
HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE$5,000
RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC$5,000
GEORGETOWN VILLAGE$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GEORGETOWN VILLAGE: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
CT
CA
CO
WV
MD
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$573k · 5 repeat orgs$348k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$573k
$276k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

60%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsInternationalFood & NutritionEnvironmentHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2021–2025 · $276k
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue -21%
  • WH
    WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCUBATOR INC
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +9%
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • DO
    DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
2
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
Global Carbon Market Utility Governing Council Inc

Global carbon market utility governing council inc (gcmu governing council inc) is dedicated to dramatically reducing the amount of carbon dioxide and related greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere, thereby helping to preserve and…

Environment
5
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through advocacy and lobbying.

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8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
Gordon Research Conferences Inc

The gordon research conferences, inc. provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of frontier research in the biological, chemical, physical and engineering sciences and their interfaces. *see schedule o*

Science & Tech
10
J Street

To organize pro-israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy americans to promote us policies that embody our deeply held jewish and democratic values and that help secure the state of israel as a democratic homeland for the jewish people.

International
11
Graywolf Press

Graywolf press publishes risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature. when writers are free to do their most ambitious work, their books serve as portals to new possibilities and enable deeper understanding…

Arts & Culture
12
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Global Development Incubator Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $276,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYALE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYDUPAGE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherDUPAGE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION+8 more: $37,500 · Other+8 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRA…DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTHE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCUBATOR INC: $200,000 · InternationalTHE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT I…+1 more: $1,500 · InternationalWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $25,000 · AnimalsMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $20,000 · AnimalsCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$388,500Education$261,000International$201,500Animals$45,000Civil Rights$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCUBATOR INC: $200,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AUTHORS GUILD FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN OF UGANDA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN MINISTRY CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTS AND LETTERS 305 UNITED PARENT AND TEACHER ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Woodward Walsh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Woodward Walsh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 21 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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