Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Alex C Walker Educational & Charitable
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $501k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $96,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Alex C Walker Educational & Charitable funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $501k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $410k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $476k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $527k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $440k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $445k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $471k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $413k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our Children's Trust | $850,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Center for Sustainable Economy | $725,000 | 9 | 43% |
| The Brookings Institution | $361,000 | 7 | 0% |
| National Wildlife Federation | $320,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Niskanen Center Inc | $215,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Pricing Carbon Initiative Inc | $210,000 | 6 | 33% |
| Amigos of Costa Rica Inc | $141,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Karuna Center for Peacebuilding Inc | $91,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Institute for Justice | $90,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Nuclear New York Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 26% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our Children's Trust | $850,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Center for Sustainable Economy | $725,000 | 9 | 43% |
| The Brookings Institution | $361,000 | 7 | 0% |
| National Wildlife Federation | $320,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Niskanen Center Inc | $215,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Pricing Carbon Initiative Inc | $210,000 | 6 | 33% |
| Amigos of Costa Rica Inc | $141,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Karuna Center for Peacebuilding Inc | $91,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Institute for Justice | $90,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Nuclear New York Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 26% |
| OneReef Worldwide Stewardship | $60,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Good Energy Collective Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Resources for the Future Inc | $56,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nuclear Innovation Alliance | $50,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Open Space Institute Inc | $45,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Carbon Tax Center | $45,000 | 1 | 83% |
| The Breakthrough Institute | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Howell Conservation Fund Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Partnership for Responsible Growth Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Contina Impact | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Inside Climate News Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ecoflight | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($549k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Alex C Walker Educational & Charitable supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Breakthrough Energy Foundation · Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Rodel Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
Compare Alex C Walker Educational & Charitable with peer funders
About Alex C Walker Educational & Charitable
- How much does Alex C Walker Educational & Charitable give?
- Alex C Walker Educational & Charitable reported 9 grants totaling $501,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Alex C Walker Educational & Charitable fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (68%), Social Science (9%), Animals (8%).
- Who are Alex C Walker Educational & Charitable's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Our Children's Trust ($850k), Center for Sustainable Economy ($725k), The Brookings Institution ($361k).
- Does Alex C Walker Educational & Charitable fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alex C Walker Educational & Charitable accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alex C Walker Educational & Charitable?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Breakthrough Energy Foundation, Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust.
- Where is Alex C Walker Educational & Charitable based?
- Alex C Walker Educational & Charitable is based in PA.
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