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Archie D and Bertha H Walker 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.

$299k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$246k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of ARCHIE D AND BERTHA H WALKER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $246k
$7,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRANTS UNDER 5000$246,311
FINE ARTS WORK CTR IN PROVINCETOWN$15,000
THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES$8,000
FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN CTY LIBRARY$7,500
WILD RIVERS CONSERVANCY$7,500
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA$5,000
MARLTON ASSEMBLY OF GOD$5,000
THE JOYS OF LIVING ASSISTANCE DOGS$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YWCA OF ST PAUL: $5k → 14%GUADALUPE ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS: $5k → 14%GUADALUPE ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS: $5k → 14%GUADALUPE ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS: $5k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%EMERGE MOTHERS ACADEMY: $5k → 11%EMERGE MOTHERS ACADEMY: $5k → 11%THE LINK: $5k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $7k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $5k → 11%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $5k → 11%EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 38 repeat orgs$249k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
44

Total granted

$2.6M
$231k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+29%

Still filing today

71%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther

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

  • FA
    FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +24%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +171%
  • WE
    WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS
    7× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WALKER CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $9k
  • UA
    UNITED ARTIST COLLABORATIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +689%
  • SR
    Steve Rummler Hope Network
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue -69%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
2
Minnesota Recovery Connection

Minnesota Recovery Connection's mission is to strengthen the recovery community through peer-to-peer support, public education and advocacy.

Human Services
3
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
4
Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture
5
Violence Free Minnesota

To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.

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6
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
7
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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8
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
9
Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

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10
Wonderlust Productions

Wonderlust Productions is a multicultural, multi-disciplinary arts ensemble that illuminates a community's story through performance, mixing community members from across generations, ethnicities, and perspectives, alongside an ensemble of…

Arts & Culture
11
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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12
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upstream Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is United Artist Collaborative. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyImmigrant and Indigenous Co…Professional Association Ne…Affordable Housing Developm…Youth Development & Support…Family Philanthropic Founda…Basic Needs AssistanceEnvironmental Conservation …Senior Care Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr15%27%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr13%25%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/69
the rest of the field
14%
1,904/13,196

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.

04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 85 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/67
Grantees still filing
40/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GRANTS UNDER 5000 — $1,892,193 · OtherGRANTS UNDER 5000+44 more — $487,555 · Other+44 moreFINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC — $108,500 · Arts & CultureFlying Foot Forum — $15,000 · Arts & CultureIllusion Theater and School Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureA WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS — $10,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED ARTIST COLLABORATIVE — $8,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $45,000 · Arts & CultureWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS — $35,000 · EducationCENTER SCHOOL INC — $15,000 · EducationUNITED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE TWIN CITIES — $10,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES — $8,000 · EducationPEACEMAKER MINNESOTA — $5,000 · EducationCHANGE INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesEMERGE MOTHERS ACADEMY — $10,000 · Human ServicesDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK — $5,000 · Human ServicesEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesYoung Women's Christian Association of St Paul — $5,000 · Human ServicesAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE LINK — $5,000 · Human ServicesREADY SET SMILE PA — $10,000 · HealthSteve Rummler Hope Network — $7,500 · HealthHouse of Hope Inc — $5,000 · HealthMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc — $5,000 · HealthBIRDIES 4 BRAINS MN INC — $5,000 · HealthAnnex Teen Clinic Inc — $5,000 · HealthTREEHOUSE INC — $5,000 · HealthST FRANCIS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER — $5,000 · HealthRS EDEN — $25,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA — $15,000 · Crime & LegalBATTERED WOMEN'S LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT — $5,000 · Crime & LegalNEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $20,000 · PhilanthropyMICROGRANTS — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,379,748Arts & Culture$196,500Education$73,000Human Services$62,000Health$47,500Crime & Legal$45,000Philanthropy$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC — $108,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY — $67,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS — $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWalker Methodist Foundation — $30,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetRS EDEN — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWILD RIVERS CONSERVANCY OF THE ST CROIX & NAMEKAGON — $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBridging Inc — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFlying Foot Forum — $15,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA — $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER SCHOOL INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHANGE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMinnesota Humanities Center — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC MINNESOTA INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE SPIRIT — $11,800 over 2y, 12% of budgetBOUNTIFIELD INTERNATIONAL — $11,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Banyan Foundation — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCIRCUS OF THE STAR — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIllusion Theater and School Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetREADY SET SMILE PA — $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE TWIN CITIES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF CHARITY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGE MOTHERS ACADEMY — $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMOTIONPOEMS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetMICROGRANTS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMissions Inc Programs — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetA WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES — $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSteve Rummler Hope Network — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSWEET POTATO COMFORT PIE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHouse of Hope Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Alano Society of Minneapolis Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPENUMBRA THEATRE COMPANY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of St Paul — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST DAVID'S CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRDIES 4 BRAINS MN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetONE VOICE MIXED CHORUS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFresh Air Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPAS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAnnex Teen Clinic Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUPSTREAM ARTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Fr Bigelow FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Otto Bremer TrustTarget FoundationThe Walser FoundationHardenbergh FoundationXcel Energy FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…The Richard M Schulze…Greater Twin Cities U…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN62.3× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Target Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way

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 Archie D and Bertha H Walker Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc — 27% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Archie D and Bertha H Walker Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Archie D and Bertha H Walker Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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