Wisconsin · Private foundation
Loren & Helen Walker Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $94k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,424
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $14,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Loren & Helen Walker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 | 14 | $94k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $100k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $76k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $118k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $119k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $98k | 12% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $94k | 65% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $86k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mile Bluff Medical Center | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wisconsin Public Radio Association Inc | $37,500 | 6 | 0% |
| New Lisbon Food Pantry | $37,500 | 5 | 16% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc | $28,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Juneau County K9s Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 14% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Carl Nelson Animal Shelter Inc | $17,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Hearts for Hope Foundation Corporation | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Room to Read | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mile Bluff Medical Center | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wisconsin Public Radio Association Inc | $37,500 | 6 | 0% |
| New Lisbon Food Pantry | $37,500 | 5 | 16% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc | $28,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Juneau County K9s Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 14% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Carl Nelson Animal Shelter Inc | $17,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Hearts for Hope Foundation Corporation | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Room to Read | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Project Increase Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 2% |
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($642k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Loren & Helen 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About Loren & Helen Walker Foundation
- How much does Loren & Helen Walker Foundation give?
- Loren & Helen Walker Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $94,143 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Loren & Helen Walker Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Health (15%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Loren & Helen Walker Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mile Bluff Medical Center ($50k), Wisconsin Public Radio Association Inc ($38k), New Lisbon Food Pantry ($38k).
- Does Loren & Helen Walker Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Loren & Helen Walker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Loren & Helen Walker Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Loren & Helen Walker Foundation based?
- Loren & Helen Walker Foundation is based in WI.
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