· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
How this is measured
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 +41%
Funded once
- FAFREMONT AREA ART ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -11%
- FFFREMONT FAMILY YMCAone grant, 2022 · $2k
- FRFREMONT RURAL FIRE DEPTone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lester a Walker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lester a Walker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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