Nebraska · 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.
- $157k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $101,190
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Lester a Walker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $153k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $143k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $148k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $162k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $152k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $150k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midland University | $37,282 | 6 | 0% |
| Aid to Adoption of Special Kids Aask Arizona | $26,511 | 6 | 0% |
| Hospice of the Valley | $26,510 | 6 | 0% |
| Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy Inc | $17,824 | 4 | 0% |
| Fremont Area Habitat for Humanity | $16,656 | 5 | 0% |
| United Negro College Fund Inc | $14,913 | 6 | 0% |
| Roots to Wings Inc | $11,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Fremont Area Veterans Coalition | $7,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Catz Angels Care Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Dodge County Historical Society | $4,250 | 2 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midland University | $37,282 | 6 | 0% |
| Aid to Adoption of Special Kids Aask Arizona | $26,511 | 6 | 0% |
| Hospice of the Valley | $26,510 | 6 | 0% |
| Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy Inc | $17,824 | 4 | 0% |
| Fremont Area Habitat for Humanity | $16,656 | 5 | 0% |
| United Negro College Fund Inc | $14,913 | 6 | 0% |
| Roots to Wings Inc | $11,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Fremont Area Veterans Coalition | $7,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Catz Angels Care Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Dodge County Historical Society | $4,250 | 2 | 2% |
| Fremont Area Art Association Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Fremont Soccer Club Inc | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Nebraska Humanities Council | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($736k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lester a Walker Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Lester a Walker Foundation
- How much does Lester a Walker Foundation give?
- Lester a Walker Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $157,222 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Lester a Walker Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (66%), Education (7%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Lester a Walker Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Midland University ($37k), Aid to Adoption of Special Kids Aask Arizona ($27k), Hospice of the Valley ($27k).
- Does Lester a Walker Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lester a Walker Foundation 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 Lester a Walker Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Debby Durham Family Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, Fremont Area Community Foundation.
- Where is Lester a Walker Foundation based?
- Lester a Walker Foundation is based in NE.
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