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The Greenwall Foundation
Washington, DC · EIN 13-6082277. Reported 193 grants totalling $13.2M to 78 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Greenwall Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $55,997. Half of everything it gave fell between $42,828 and $85,360; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $300,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $1,399,376 | 21 | 4 | 2024 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $688,340 | 7 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $647,663 | 9 | 4 | 2024 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, TX | $550,270 | 9 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brigham and Women's Hospital | Boston, MA | $406,878 | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Hastings Center | Garrison, NY | $390,836 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | $372,593 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $372,356 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $354,926 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| U Penn | Philadelphia, PA | $318,225 | 6 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Washington DC, DC | $307,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus | Aurora, CO | $304,469 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $295,616 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | $268,510 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $261,565 | 5 | 1 | 2024 |
| Indiana University | Bloomington, IN | $255,869 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Lincoln, NE | $244,623 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $241,411 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boston Medical Center | Boston, MA | $239,582 | 4 | 2 | 2024 |
| Northwestern University | Chicago, IL | $226,192 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $226,041 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $219,685 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | $215,216 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics | Baltimore, MD | $200,580 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium | Anchorage, AK | $194,768 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $189,771 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Georgetown University | Washington DC, DC | $187,547 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| U of Colorado Anschutz | Aurora, CO | $177,896 | 4 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boston Children's Hospital | Boston, MA | $177,679 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Massachusetts System | Boston, MA | $175,740 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Toronto | Toronto, Ontario | $172,486 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $163,647 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| U of Colorado | Aurora, CO | $160,105 | 4 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Venture Fund | Washington, DC | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $130,038 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $123,862 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | $123,059 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | $122,441 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Boston College School of Social Work | Chestnut Hill, MA | $120,856 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boston College | Chestnut Hil, MA | $117,454 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| U of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $115,016 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL | $112,191 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Carnegie Mellon University (cmu) | Pittsburgh, PA | $105,198 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tufts Medical Center | Boston, MA | $89,692 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | $81,322 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Univeristy of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | $77,100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $74,053 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brigham & Women's Hospital | Boston, MA | $64,646 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus | Aurora, CO | $64,097 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | Madison, WI | $62,668 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Univeristy of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $56,027 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| UC Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | $54,883 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brown University | Providence, RI | $54,747 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| U of Toronto | Toronto | $51,624 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| William Marsh Rice University | Houston, TX | $49,974 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boston University | Boston, MA | $48,902 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Denver (colorado Seminary) | Denver, CO | $48,737 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $48,006 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Health Care for All | Boston, MA | $46,551 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| George Mason University Foundation Inc | Fairfax, VA | $35,050 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Council on Foundations | Washington DC, DC | $28,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ohio State University Foundation | Columbus, OH | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Vital Talk | Seattle, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Candid | New York, NY | $22,554 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Doctors Without Borders USA Inc | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Support Center for Child Advocates | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Philanthropy Ny | New York, NY | $19,350 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Center for Ethics Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $13,494 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $11,483 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Environmental Transformation | Camden, NJ | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| East Trenton Collaborative (sponsor Urban Promise Trenton) | Trenton, NJ | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Candid (foundation Center) | New York, NY | $7,352 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Philanthropy New York | New York, NY | $7,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Association for the History of Medicine Inc | Richmond, VA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nonprofit New York (formerly Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York) | New York, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fly Fishers International Inc | Livingston, MT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
34 of 78 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 62%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- National Academy of Sciences
COMMITTEE ON EMERGING SCIENCES, TECHNOLOGY, AND INNOVATION IN HEALTH AND MEDICINE - Yale University
EVIDENCE AND UNCERTAINTY IN COVID-19 VACCINATION POLICY-MAKING - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
DEVELOPING PRACTICAL GUIDANCE FOR INTEGRATING SUSTAINABILITY AND CONSERVATION ETHICS INTO CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING - Boston Children's Hospital
UNDERSTANDING PERSPECTIVES ON GENOMIC RESEARCH IN AN ETHNICALLY AND RACIALLY DIVERSE COHORT OF PARENTS - University of California San Francisco
POST-ROE INDIANA: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF PATIENT TREATMENT DURING PREGNANCY LOSSES, TERMINATION, AND COMPLICATIONS - New York University
EXPLORING DECISION-MAKING ABOUT PARTICIPATION IN AN INDUSTRY-SPONSORED IN VIVO GENE THERAPY CLINICAL TRIAL FOR FABRY DISEASE
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 85 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 43 | $3,711,993 | $69,812 |
| 2022 | 42 | $3,067,550 | $68,633 |
| 2023 | 42 | $3,079,661 | $67,804 |
| 2024 | 66 | $3,299,934 | $49,809 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Already committed for future years
Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. The Greenwall Foundation has 89 of them, worth $13.7M. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | $420,938 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $387,594 |
| The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | $376,875 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $350,698 |
| University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $291,271 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $284,957 |
| Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics | Baltimore, MD | $282,011 |
| University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus | Aurora, CO | $274,706 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | $270,738 |
| University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $260,273 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $256,967 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $252,615 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $249,664 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $246,444 |
| University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Lincoln, NE | $244,623 |
Where its money goes
15% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $55,997. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Greenwall Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 650 Massachusetts Ave Nw Suite 60, Washington, DC, 20001. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
EIN 13-6082277 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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