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Cecil I Walker Charitable Tr

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$365k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2026
15
Organizations funded FY2025
7%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$65,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 15
FY2021 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
2
Total assets, FY2026
$7.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 7% of the organizations Cecil I Walker Charitable Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
HealthEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving15$365k7%
FY202515$356k7%
FY202415$369k7%
FY202315$629k40%
FY202115$345kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$665kEducation$448kReligion$150kYouth Development$130kAnimals$73kFood & Nutrition$70kPublic Benefit$38kHealth$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Cecil I Walker Charitable Tr by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The University of Charleston Inc$390,00050%
Fund for the Arts$308,000539%
West Virginia Symphony Orchestra Inc$203,00052%
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of Wv Inc$174,00051%
Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council Inc$145,00051%
Saint Frances Animal Center$77,50051%
Friendship Place Inc$70,00027%
Charleston Light Opera Guild Inc$53,00055%
Rea of Hope Fellowship Home Inc$50,00022%
Freedom Readers Inc$25,000110%
Kanawha-Charleston Humane Association Inc$25,00011%
Charleston Chamber Music Society Inc$5,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($538k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Cecil I Walker Charitable Tr supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe University of Charleston Inc: $390,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFund for the Arts: $308,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetWest Virginia Symphony Orchestra Inc: $203,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetClay Center for the Arts & Sciences of Wv Inc: $174,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetGirl Scouts of Black Diamond Council Inc: $145,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSaint Frances Animal Center: $77,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFriendship Place Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetCharleston Light Opera Guild Inc: $53,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetRea of Hope Fellowship Home Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFreedom Readers Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetKanawha-Charleston Humane Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

The Greater Kanawha Valley FoundationWV21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Tgkvf Inc · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Maier Foundation Inc · The Daywood Foundationinc · The Strong-Treister Family Foundation · Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation · The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

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About Cecil I Walker Charitable Tr

How much does Cecil I Walker Charitable Tr give?
Cecil I Walker Charitable Tr reported 15 grants totaling $365,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 15 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
What does Cecil I Walker Charitable Tr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Education (26%), Religion (9%).
Who are Cecil I Walker Charitable Tr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: The University of Charleston Inc ($390k), Fund for the Arts ($308k), West Virginia Symphony Orchestra Inc ($203k).
Does Cecil I Walker Charitable Tr fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cecil I Walker Charitable Tr accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cecil I Walker Charitable Tr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation, Tgkvf Inc, Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc.
Where is Cecil I Walker Charitable Tr based?
Cecil I Walker Charitable Tr is based in FL.

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 24 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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