· Private foundation
Loren & Helen Walker Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEARTS FOR HOPE FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
| MAUSTON SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,500 |
| NEW LISBON FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| NEW LISBON SCHOOLS | $5,424 |
| MAKE A WISH WISCONSIN | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ROYALL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $3,500 |
| CARL NELSON ANIMAL SHELTER | $3,000 |
| K9'S OF JUNEAU COUNTY | $3,000 |
| NEW LISBON MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $2,719 |
| FRIENDS OF NECEDAH NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your 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 +18% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $38k · revenue +66%
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC6× · 2019–2025 · $28k · revenue +18%- CNCARL NELSON ANIMAL SHELTER INC6× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- MBMILE BLUFF MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +3%
- NLNEW LISBON VETERAN'S MEMORIALone grant, 2021 · $15k
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 our community by promoting animal welfare and strengthening the animal-human bond. to improve the lives of pets through education and protection. to shelter stray, abandoned, and surrendered pets and find them loving homes.
Help injured and stray dogs in Negril, Jamaica.
Ruff start rescue is dedicated to saving the lives of animals in need. we improve animal welfare in communities through adoption, education, and providing resources for people and pets.
Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f
The mission of wisconsin center for nursing, inc. is to assure an adequate, well-prepared and diverse nurse workforce for the people of wisconsin. the work of the wisconsin center for nursing continues to be focused in five core nursing…
To assist the community and its members within the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin with their family pets dogs and cats. Help medically with concerns & issues which they can not afford because of living in the poorest County in…
The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.
Support financially the canine unit for Menominee County Sheriffs Office at 100%
Animal Rescue
Our mission is to strengthen animal health and welfare to build more resilient communities. we do this by enhancing veterinary care, bolstering community disaster response and recovery, championing sustainable livelihoods, and improving…
Volunteer search & rescue k9 unit
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Increase Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 38 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 MILE BLUFF MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LISBON FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Juneau County K9s Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CARL NELSON ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NECEDAH NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ↗
- Who funds Project Increase Inc ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Loren & Helen 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.
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