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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 FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$101k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Community Improvement$612kEducation$69kHuman Services$65kReligion$50kHealth$50kArts & Culture$25kHousing & Shelter$20kPhilanthropy$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 7%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $5k → 6%ROOTS TO WINGS: $4k → 7%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $5k → 6%ROOTS TO WINGS: $4k → 7%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $4k → 6%ROOTS TO WINGS: $2k → 7%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $4k → 6%ROOTS TO WINGS: $2k → 7%AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS: $5k → 11%AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS: $4k → 11%AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS: $4k → 11%AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS: $4k → 11%AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS: $4k → 11%AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS: $4k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $5k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $4k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $4k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $4k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $4k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $4k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$891k · 19 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
6

Total granted

$891k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+24%

Still filing today

53%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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

  • MU
    MIDLAND UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +27%
  • AT
    AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +11%
  • HO
    Hospice of the Valley
    6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • FA
    FREMONT AREA ART ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -11%
  • FR
    FREMONT RURAL FIRE DEPT
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • FF
    FREMONT FAMILY YMCA
    one grant, 2022 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Fremont Area Chamber of Commerce

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

2
Fremont Area Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
3
Fremont Police Association Inc

The betterment of the conditions of the fremont police and the improvement in the quality of the law enforcement profession.

4
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
5
Nebraska Safety Council

Provide education and leadership to empower people to live safe and healthy.

6
Hastings College

Hastings college is a private, co-education, residential, liberal arts college founded in 1882.

Education
7
Flagstaff Medical Center

Improving health, healing people.

Health
8
Methodist Fremont Health

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…

Health
9
American Health Care Association

Improving lives by delivering solutions for quality care.

10
Arizona Health Care Association Inc

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…

11
Union College

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.

Education
12
Museum of Nebraska Art

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…

Arts & Culture

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FREMONT AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDAT — $596,500 · OtherFREMONT AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $49,991 · OtherST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH+17 more — $117,000 · Other+17 moreAID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA — $26,511 · Human ServicesAID TO ADO…Hospice of the Valley — $26,510 · Human ServicesHospice of…HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC — $17,824 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND …ROOTS TO WINGS INC — $11,500 · Human ServicesROOTS TO W…MIDLAND UNIVERSITY — $37,282 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $14,913 · EducationARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $17,840 · PhilanthropyFREMONT AREA VETERANS COALITION — $7,000 · Public BenefitFREMONT AREA ART ASSOCIATION INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureFREMONT SOCCER CLUB INC — $1,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$763,491Human Services$82,345Education$52,195Philanthropy$17,840Public Benefit$7,000Arts & Culture$2,000Recreation & Sports$1,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMIDLAND UNIVERSITY — $37,282 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA — $26,511 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of the Valley — $26,510 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $17,840 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC — $17,824 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFREMONT AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $16,656 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $14,913 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROOTS TO WINGS INC — $11,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetFREMONT AREA VETERANS COALITION — $7,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCatz Angels Care Inc — $6,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetDODGE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $4,250 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFREMONT AREA ART ASSOCIATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Debby Durham Family FoundationNE17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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