· Private foundation
Loren & Helen Walker Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +6%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +3%
- NLNEW LISBON VETERAN'S MEMORIALone grant, 2021 · $15k
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 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
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Loren & Helen Walker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Loren & Helen Walker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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