How much does John & Carol Walter Family Foundation Inc give?

John & Carol Walter Family Foundation Inc reported 10 grants totaling $6,552,952 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does John & Carol Walter Family Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (58%), Arts & Culture (13%), Education (7%).

Who are John & Carol Walter Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Conservancy of Southwest Florida ($8.0M), Gulfshore Playhouse Inc ($1.2M), Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago ($835k).

Does John & Carol Walter Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does John & Carol Walter Family Foundation Inc 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 John & Carol Walter Family Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Collier Community Foundation Inc, The League Club Inc, Carol B Phelon Foundation.

Where is John & Carol Walter Family Foundation Inc based?

John & Carol Walter Family Foundation Inc is based in FL.

John & Carol Walter Family Foundation Inc

John & Carol Walter Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

John & Carol Walter Family Foundation Inc

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.

$6.6M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$6.3M

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, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$8.2MArts & Culture$1.8MEducation$965kYouth Development$845kPhilanthropy$535kReligion$454kHuman Services$387kHealth$351kOther$0

02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $15k
$10k–50k5 grants · $86k
$50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$250k+1 grant · $6.3M

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$18M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA	$6,252,052
GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE	$200,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO	$32,000
ARTIS-NAPLES	$15,000
PAWS CHICAGO	$15,000
NAPLES COMMUNITY CHURCH	$14,400
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION	$10,000
NAPLES ZOO	$7,500
THE FIELD MUSEUM	$5,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$2,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $316k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

$14M · 42 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$14M

$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%

+14%

Still filing today

76%

74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsEducationOther

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

THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
9× · 2017–2025 · $8.0M · revenue +561%
GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +122%
BA
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO
8× · 2017–2025 · $835k · revenue +39%

Funded once

NA
NAPLES ART ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +31%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -6%
GP
GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +215%

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.

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement

National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc

Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…

Education

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is American College of the Building Arts. 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

58 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. 58 of the 74 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

56/58

Grantees still filing

44/58

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$9,971,065Arts & Culture$1,841,875Youth Development$844,500Philanthropy$536,500Animals$346,500Human Services$316,499Health$292,600

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

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.

Collier Community Foundation IncFL27.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Collier Community Foundation Inc · The League Club Inc · Carol B Phelon Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Naples Children Foundation Inc · Brooks and Joan Fortune Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust

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 John & Carol Walter Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Carol Walter Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

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.

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