· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ROTARY FOUNDATION-IN KIND DONATION | $3,035,585 |
| THE ROTARY FOUNDATION-CASH DONATION | $469,030 |
| THE ROTARY FOUNDATION-CASH DONATION | $27,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
12 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCONNECTICUT COLLEGE4× · 2017–2021 · $750k · revenue +23%
- TDTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC3× · 2020–2022 · $350k · revenue +36%
- CFCOOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION5× · 2017–2022 · $290k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- CGCUNY GRAD CTR-INST FOR INT'L STUDYone grant, 2023 · $125k
- EUEUROPEAN UNION STUDIES CENTERone grant, 2022 · $125k
Safe Passagegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $120k · revenue +40%
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.
Under the auspices of the united nations and guided by its ideals, the united nations international school (unis) provides an inclusive and diverse learning environment in which rigorous international programs foster academic excellence,…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
Through a commitment to immersive learning, we prepare students to lead engaged, consequential, and creative lives, contribute to their communities, and address the world's most challenging problems.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
For more than a century, the international institute of new england (iine) has been creating opportunities for refugees and immigrants to succeed through resettlement, education, career advancement, and pathways to citizenship. founded in…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The only law school in Rhode Island, Roger Williams University School of Law offers future attorneys a rigorous, hands-on legal education in a supportive, personalized environment. Preparing students for success in the public and private…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Passage ↗
- Who funds TESFA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club Foundation I ↗
- Who funds MAINE JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Otto & Fran Walter Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Otto & Fran Walter Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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