· Private foundation
Lester a 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREMONT AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDAT | $101,190 |
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $9,832 |
| MIDLAND UNIVERSITY | $6,324 |
| HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $5,000 |
| AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS | $4,497 |
| ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $4,497 |
| HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY | $4,497 |
| MCCOOK COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIO | $3,795 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER | $3,000 |
| NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND | $2,530 |
| NEBR INDEP COLLEGE FUND | $2,530 |
| BISHOP NEUMAN CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| DODGE CO 4-H FOUNDATION | $1,265 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,265 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MUMIDLAND UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +27%
- ATAID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +11%
- HOHospice of the Valley6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- FAFREMONT AREA ART ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -11%
- FRFREMONT RURAL FIRE DEPTone grant, 2021 · $2k
- FFFREMONT FAMILY YMCAone grant, 2022 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To serve as a business advocate, take a leadership role in economic growth and civic development, and to provide programs and services related to the critical needs of its membership
To improve the quality of life in the fremont area by connecting donor interest with community needs and serving as a leader and catalyst in the development of solutions.
The betterment of the conditions of the fremont police and the improvement in the quality of the law enforcement profession.
Provide education and leadership to empower people to live safe and healthy.
Hastings college is a private, co-education, residential, liberal arts college founded in 1882.
Improving health, healing people.
The mission of methodist fremont health is to improve the quality of life by caring for the body and mind. methodist fremont health supports its mission of caring for people through the provision of inpatient and outpatient hospital…
Improving lives by delivering solutions for quality care.
Ahca works to influence society and government to invest in the wellbeing of elderly and disabled individuals and to assure access to longterm care. ahca is committed to developing sound public policy whilebalancing economic and regulatory…
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
The museum of nebraska art (mona) celebrates the history of nebraska's visual art for diverse audiences. mona collects, preserves, researches, exhibits, and interprets the work of artists who were born, lived, trained, or worked in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Valley and the most unlike its peers is Roots to Wings Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 29 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MIDLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FREMONT AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTS TO WINGS INC ↗
- Who funds FREMONT AREA VETERANS COALITION ↗
- Who funds Catz Angels Care Inc ↗
- Who funds DODGE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FREMONT AREA ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREMONT SOCCER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Debby Durham Family Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Fremont Area Community Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Lester a 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.
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.