Maine · Private foundation
Otto & Fran Walter Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $469,030
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,035,585
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 8
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Otto & Fran Walter Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 2 | $3.5M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $694k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $11M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $444k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $690k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $457k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $556k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $502k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut College | $750,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services | $450,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Door - a Center of Alternatives Inc | $350,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Cooperative for Education | $289,760 | 5 | 3% |
| Metropolitan Opera Association Inc | $200,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of Thai Daughters Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 13% |
| Safe Passage | $120,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Tesfa Foundation | $110,000 | 3 | 34% |
| Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club Foundation I | $50,000 | 2 | 25% |
| Maine Justice Foundation | $18,500 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($15M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Otto & Fran Walter Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
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About Otto & Fran Walter Foundation Inc
- How much does Otto & Fran Walter Foundation Inc give?
- Otto & Fran Walter Foundation Inc reported 3 grants totaling $3,531,615 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Otto & Fran Walter Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (86%), Education (7%), Crime & Legal (2%).
- Who are Otto & Fran Walter Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Connecticut College ($750k), Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services ($450k), The Door - a Center of Alternatives Inc ($350k).
- Does Otto & Fran Walter Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Otto & Fran Walter Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Otto & Fran Walter Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Otto & Fran Walter Foundation Inc based?
- Otto & Fran Walter Foundation Inc is based in ME.
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