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Darrick and Julia Walker Open Hands Foundation at a glance

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Darrick and Julia Walker Open Hands 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.

$114k
Granted FY2020
8
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

58% of Darrick and Julia Walker Open Hands Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Jackson Hole, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Darrick and Julia Walker Open Hands Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $114k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

5
’17
2
’18
2
’19
6
’20
1
’22
1
’23
0
’24
1
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$125kRecreation & Sports$44kHousing & Shelter$31kPhilanthropy$30kHealth$27kHuman Services$26kReligion$16kEducation$7kOther$0
02FY2020 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k4 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$460k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$25,000
TETON YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES$25,000
ONE 22 RESOURCE CENTER$25,000
FRIENDS OF PATHWAYS$25,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE WY$7,200
CENTER FOR THE ARTS$5,000
EVERY GENERATION MINISTRIES$1,000
ONE WORLD CHILDRENS FUND$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TAHOE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 8%ONE 22 RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 5%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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$104k · 6 repeat orgs$208k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
15

Total granted

$104k
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+120%

Still filing today

50%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    3× · 2017–2024 · $31k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF PATHWAYS
    2× · 2017–2020 · $28k · revenue +31%
  • TY
    TETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
    2× · 2020–2022 · $26k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $125k · revenue +38%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • FF
    FLOURISH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +275%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the Jackson hole chamber of commerce is to champion the interest of local businesses, enhance their prosperity and strengthen the economic climate of teton county

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2
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…

Education
3
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
4
Honnold Foundation

Funding solar energy solutions, building capacity, and amplifying local leadership for those experiencing the greatest impacts from climate change, economic instability, and social injustice.

Environment
5
The Tvrc Education Foundation Inc

The mission of teton valley ranch camp is to provide inspiring western adventure in the jackson hole and yellowstone area.

Youth Development
6
Creekside Charter Management

To cultivate student success through mindful perseverance, critical thinking, resourcefulness and advanced knowledge that will prepare students for high levels of success in school, work, and life, while honoring the individuality and…

Education
7
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
8
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
9
Partnership for Children

To provide therapeutic care and support for the safe and healthy development of children and families.

Human Services
10
Twin Peaks Charter Academy

The organization provides students with a rigorous education and the foundations of virtue and character, while building cultural literacy through a content-rich curriculum in an encouraging environment.

Education
11
The Jackson Hole Technology Partnership

To fuel local, regional and global tech ecosystems to shape a better future.

Science & Tech
12
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole; the most unlike its peers is Flourish Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 26 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG LIFE: $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $31,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDANVILLE OAKS RUGBY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherDANVILLE OAKS RUGBY FOUNDATIONFIRST BAPTIST JACKSON FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN MISSION: $5,000 · OtherSAN RAMON GIRLS SOFTBALL: $3,500 · OtherEVERY GENERATION MINISTRIES INC: $6,000 · OtherEVERY GENERATION MINISTRIES INCTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $5,000 · OtherCommunity Center for the Arts: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $3,550 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $36,250 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY F…+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF PATHWAYS: $27,500 · Recreation & SportsTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $26,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthOne22 Inc: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesFLOURISH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationJackson Hole Community School: $1,000 · EducationTETON LITERACY CENTER: $500 · Education
Youth Development$126,000Other$99,050Philanthropy$36,750Recreation & Sports$27,500Health$26,500Human Services$25,500Education$6,500

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 budgetYOUNG LIFE: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $36,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PATHWAYS: $27,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $26,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOne22 Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEVERY GENERATION MINISTRIES INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Center for the Arts: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJackson Hole Community School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOne World Childrens Fund: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTETON LITERACY CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTahoe Youth and Family Services: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Sipprelle Charitable …The Brooks FoundationThe Ladd Family Found…Karl M Johnson Founda…Hughes Charitable Fou…Hughes Charitable Fou…Perkins Charitable Fo…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
Sipprelle Charitable CorpWY15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sipprelle Charitable Corp · The Brooks Foundation · The Ladd Family Foundation · Karl M Johnson Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Perkins Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Darrick and Julia Walker Open Hands Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Darrick and Julia Walker Open Hands Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 26 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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