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The Arthur L and Lily D Walters 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.

$130k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
5%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 37
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
15
Total assets, FY2025
$2.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The Arthur L and Lily D Walters Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
EnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionOther
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 arriving19$115k0%
FY202419$101k5%
FY202318$93k11%
FY202218$85k6%
FY202117$70k18%
FY202014$65k14%
FY201916$105k38%
FY201837$69k11%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$367kHealth$189kEducation$56kPublic Benefit$54kInternational$42kAnimals$41kFood & Nutrition$39kArts & Culture$32kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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MI
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OR
WY
SD
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CT
CA
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VA
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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
World Wildlife Fund Inc$90,00070%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$85,00070%
The Virginia Hospital Center Foundation$55,00091%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$40,80090%
Judicial Watch Inc$39,10070%
Some Inc$35,00070%
Mara Elephant Project USA Inc$24,00040%
St Josephs Indian School$15,2009n/a
Hyde School$15,00020%
National Wasp Wwii Museum Inc$14,90090%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($280k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Arthur L and Lily D Walters Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $90,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $85,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Virginia Hospital Center Foundation: $55,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $40,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $39,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSome Inc: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMara Elephant Project USA Inc: $24,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHyde School: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Wasp Wwii Museum Inc: $14,900 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $11,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Foundation for the Blind Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Justice Foundation: $4,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetArlington Food Assistance Center: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMutts With a Mission: $3,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHerobox Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAir & Space Forces Association: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Commemorative Air Force: $2,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars Foundation: $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEvergreen Freedom Foundation: $2,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTroops Direct: $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAfrica Schools of Kenya: $2,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSoutheastern Legal Foundation Inc: $2,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMedia Research Center: $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPriderock Wildlife Refuge: $1,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCanines With a Cause: $1,700 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTiger Preservation Center Inc: $1,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNoah's Lost Ark Inc: $1,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThomas More Law Center: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom Service Dogs Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTax Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's National: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom Alliance: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Finally Home: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 38.

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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.

Farrell Family FoundationCA19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Farrell Family Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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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How do I get to The Arthur L and Lily D Walters Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Arthur L and Lily D Walters 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 The Arthur L and Lily D Walters Foundation

How much does The Arthur L and Lily D Walters Foundation give?
The Arthur L and Lily D Walters Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $129,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Arthur L and Lily D Walters Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (41%), Health (21%), Education (6%).
Who are The Arthur L and Lily D Walters Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: World Wildlife Fund Inc ($90k), Parkinson's Foundation Inc ($85k), The Virginia Hospital Center Foundation ($55k).
Does The Arthur L and Lily D Walters Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Arthur L and Lily D Walters Foundation 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 The Arthur L and Lily D Walters Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Farrell Family Foundation, Amg Charitable Gift Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation.
Where is The Arthur L and Lily D Walters Foundation based?
The Arthur L and Lily D Walters Foundation is based in VA.

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 60 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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