· Private foundation
Smith Walker Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $157k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PATHFINDER RANCH INC | $30,000 |
| EL MONTECITO PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $30,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $20,500 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| COALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY | $10,000 |
| GRACE AND PEACE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| VOICE OF THE MARTYRS | $9,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $9,000 |
| RESCUE MISSION - SANTA BARBARA | $8,000 |
| FRED JORDAN MISSION | $8,000 |
| PROVIDENCE SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| LEX REX INSTITUTE | $8,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $7,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $7,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +64% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 7 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PRPathfinder Ranch Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $203k · revenue +36%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE9× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +134%
- CTCOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING8× · 2018–2025 · $91k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- MDMATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL-H STEVES HONOone grant, 2017 · $10k
- THTHE HUMAN ADVENTURE CORPgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +52%
- RMRESCUE MISSION OF SANTA BARBARAone grant, 2020 · $9k
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.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
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The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
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Pacific school of religion prepares a diverse cadre of spiritually rooted leaders with the vision, resilience, and skill to create a world where all can thrive. grounded in the rigorous study and faithful practice of progressive christian…
Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
See schedule o.christians for biblical equality (cbe), www.cbeinternational.org, is a 501c3 nonprofit organization comprised of individuals, churches, colleges, seminaries, and organizations, representing more than 100 different…
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
See schedule oprovidence college is a catholic, dominican, liberal arts institution of higher education and a community committed to academic excellence.
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 90 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 Pathfinder Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds COALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ART INSPIRING CHANGE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Orange Coast College Foundation ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HEALING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Lex Rex Institute ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY 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: Orange County Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Smith Walker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smith Walker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Benhaven Inc: 33% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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