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Albert a Walters Fdn

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.

$235k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$485kAnimals$321kHealth$314kReligion$297kEducation$175kPhilanthropy$144kHousing & Shelter$34k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$21,364
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$21,364
CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FDN$21,364
CABRINI MISSION FOUNDATION INC$21,364
GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC$21,364
THE SEEING EYE INC$21,364
MISSION OF OUR LADY OF MERCY$21,364
CARDINAL HAYES HM FOR CHILDREN$21,364
HOSPITALLER BROSST JOHN OF GOD$21,364
FRIENDS OF SAINT DOMINICS INC$21,364
ST HUBERTS ANIMAL WELFARE CTR$21,364
OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS$21,364
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $560k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $34k → 12%CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FDN: $27k → 13%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND NY: $27k → 9%THE SEEING EYE INC: $21k → 4%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $27k → 12%CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FDN: $21k → 13%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $21k → 9%THE SEEING EYE INC: $18k → 4%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $21k → 12%CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FDN: $20k → 13%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND NY: $20k → 9%THE SEEING EYE: $18k → 4%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $18k → 12%CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FDN: $18k → 13%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND NY: $18k → 9%THE SEEING EYE INC: $18k → 4%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $18k → 12%CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FDN: $18k → 13%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND NY: $18k → 9%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $18k → 12%CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FDN: $18k → 13%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND NY: $18k → 9%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $18k → 12%CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FDN: $18k → 13%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND NY: $18k → 9%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $18k → 12%CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FDN: $18k → 13%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND NY: $18k → 9%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 12 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
1

Total granted

$1.8M
$18k

Still filing today

58%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $164k · revenue +59%
  • TS
    THE SEEING EYE INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $157k · revenue +44%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ST DOMINIC'S INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $157k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • HB
    HOSPITALLER BROSST JOHN OF GOD SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $18k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 13 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)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISSION OF OUR LADY OF MERCY: $157,181 · OtherMISSION OF OUR LADY OF MERCYCARDINAL HAYES HM FOR CHILDREN: $157,181 · OtherCARDINAL HAYES HM FOR CHILDRENST HUBERTS ANIMAL WELFARE CTR: $157,181 · OtherST HUBERTS ANIMAL WELFARE CTRHOSPITALLER BROSST JOHN OF GOD: $139,545 · OtherHOSPITALLER BROSST JOHN OF GODST CABRINI HOME INC: $33,864 · Other+1 more: $17,636 · OtherTHE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $170,726 · Human ServicesTHE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYSTHE SEEING EYE INC: $157,181 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INCTHE CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $157,181 · Human ServicesTHE CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATIONGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $157,181 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INCBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $163,954 · AnimalsBEST FRIEN…FRIENDS OF ST DOMINIC'S INC: $157,181 · HealthFRIENDS OF…CABRINI MISSION FOUNDATION: $143,636 · PhilanthropyCABRINI M…
Other$662,588Human Services$642,269Animals$163,954Health$157,181Philanthropy$143,636

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $170,726 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $163,954 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $157,181 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST DOMINIC'S INC: $157,181 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetTHE CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $157,181 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $157,181 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCABRINI MISSION FOUNDATION: $143,636 over 6y, 2.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ST DOMINIC'S INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds CABRINI MISSION FOUNDATION ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Albert a Walters Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Albert a Walters Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 13 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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