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Margaret M Walker Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$258k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$80,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$80,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 6
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Margaret M Walker Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$258k0%
FY20245$353k0%
FY20235$342k0%
FY20225$282k40%
FY20213$335k33%
FY20206$302k0%
FY20195$237k20%
FY20186$237k0%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$1.1MPhilanthropy$762kCommunity Improvement$662kArts & Culture$31kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kFood & Nutrition$4kEnvironment$4kReligion$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Buhl Park Corporation$552,00077%
Lindenpointe Development Corporation$547,000739%
Buhl Community Recreation Center$532,00076%
Penn Northwest Development Corporation$115,00092%
Random Acts of Artists$31,3007n/a
Shenango River Watchers Inc$3,5001n/a
Shenango Valley Meals on Wheels$2,0001n/a
New Life Baptist Church$1,0001n/a

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($784k), not named here.

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.

Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern OhioPA19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio · Buhl Regional Health Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Margaret M Walker Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Margaret M Walker Charitable Foundation

How much does Margaret M Walker Charitable Foundation give?
Margaret M Walker Charitable Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $257,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Margaret M Walker Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (42%), Philanthropy (30%), Community Improvement (26%).
Who are Margaret M Walker Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Buhl Park Corporation ($552k), Lindenpointe Development Corporation ($547k), Buhl Community Recreation Center ($532k).
Does Margaret M Walker Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Margaret M Walker Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Margaret M Walker Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio, Buhl Regional Health Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Margaret M Walker Charitable Foundation based?
Margaret M Walker Charitable Foundation is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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