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Margaret M Walker Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$258k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $240k
$80,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUHL PARK CORPORATION$80,000
THE BUHL CLUB$80,000
LINDENPOINTE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$80,000
PENN NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP$10,000
RANDOM ACTS OF ARTISTS INC$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BUHL PARK CORPORATION: $110k → 13%LINDENPOINTE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $110k → 13%BUHL PARK CORPORATION: $101k → 13%LINDENPOINTE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $95k → 13%BUHL PARK CORPORATION: $81k → 13%LINDENPOINTE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $81k → 13%BUHL PARK CORPORATION: $80k → 13%BUHL PARK CORPORATION: $80k → 13%BUHL PARK CORPORATION: $80k → 13%LINDENPOINTE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $80k → 13%LINDENPOINTE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $61k → 13%LINDENPOINTE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $60k → 13%LINDENPOINTE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $60k → 13%BUHL PARK: $20k → 13%Shenango River Watchers Inc: $4k → 13%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN: $277k → 13%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN: $260k → 13%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN: $225k → 13%THE BUHL CLUB: $110k → 13%BUHL COMMUNITY RECREATION: $101k → 13%BUHL COMMUNITY RECREATION: $81k → 13%BUHL COMMUNITY RECREATION: $80k → 13%THE BUHL CLUB: $80k → 13%BUHL COMMUNITY RECREATION: $60k → 13%THE BUHL CLUB: $20k → 13%RANDOM ACTS OF ARTISTS INC: $8k → 13%RANDOM ACTS OF ARTISTS INC: $8k → 13%WATER FIRE SHARON: $5k → 13%RANDOM ACTS OF ARTISTS INC: $5k → 13%WATER FIRE SHARON-COMMUNITY FDN: $5k → 13%RANDOM ACTS OF ARTISTS: $4k → 13%WATER FIRE SHARON-COMMUNITY FDN: $4k → 13%WATER FIRE SHARON-COMMUNITY FDN: $4k → 13%RANDOM ACTS OF ARTISTS INC: $3k → 13%RANDOM ACTS OF ARTISTS INC: $3k → 13%SHENANGO VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS: $2k → 13%WEST HILL MINISTRIES: $2k → 13%RANDOM ACTS OF ARTISTS INC: $1k → 13%COMMUNITY FOOD WAREHOUSE: $2k → 13%PENN NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP: $20k → 13%PENN NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP: $15k → 13%PENN NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP: $15k → 13%PENN NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP: $15k → 13%PENN NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10k → 13%PENN NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10k → 13%PENN NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10k → 13%PENN NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10k → 13%PENN NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 7 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +128% since the first grant, against +122% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$2.6M
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+128%
+122%

Still filing today

57%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BP
    BUHL PARK CORPORATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $552k · revenue +128%
  • LD
    LINDENPOINTE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $547k · revenue +140% · 39% of their budget
  • BC
    BUHL COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER
    7× · 2017–2025 · $532k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • SR
    SHENANGO RIVER WATCHERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +122%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOOD WAREHOUSE
    one grant, 2017 · $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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN: $762,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERNBUHL PARK CORPORATION: $552,000 · OtherBUHL PARK CORPORATIONBUHL COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER: $532,000 · OtherBUHL COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER+6 more: $54,300 · OtherLINDENPOINTE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $547,000 · Community ImprovementLINDENPOINTE DEVELOPMENT CORP…PENN NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $115,000 · Community ImprovementPENN NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CO…SHENANGO RIVER WATCHERS INC: $3,500 · EnvironmentSHENANGO VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,900,300Community Improvement$662,000Environment$3,500Food & Nutrition$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBUHL PARK CORPORATION: $552,000 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetLINDENPOINTE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $547,000 over 7y, 39% of budgetBUHL COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER: $532,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetPENN NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $115,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budget
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 BUHL PARK CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds LINDENPOINTE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BUHL COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PENN NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SHENANGO RIVER WATCHERS INC ↗
  • Who funds SHENANGO VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Margaret M Walker Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margaret M Walker Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

    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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