California · Private foundation
The Jack R Walter 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.
- $128k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $36,075
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The Jack R Walter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $126k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $96k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $90k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $53k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $74k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $53k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $60k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $37k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Laurence School | $118,724 | 8 | 0% |
| Wasatch Adaptive Sports Inc | $110,536 | 6 | 2% |
| Wheels of Hope La | $37,500 | 2 | 48% |
| Maui Humane Society | $20,897 | 8 | 0% |
| Triumph Foundation | $20,000 | 7 | 0% |
| American Brain Tumor Association | $14,948 | 2 | 0% |
| Harvard-Westlake School | $12,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Fundacion Cancasque | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Treepeople Inc | $6,780 | 7 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Laurence School | $118,724 | 8 | 0% |
| Wasatch Adaptive Sports Inc | $110,536 | 6 | 2% |
| Wheels of Hope La | $37,500 | 2 | 48% |
| Maui Humane Society | $20,897 | 8 | 0% |
| Triumph Foundation | $20,000 | 7 | 0% |
| American Brain Tumor Association | $14,948 | 2 | 0% |
| Harvard-Westlake School | $12,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Fundacion Cancasque | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Treepeople Inc | $6,780 | 7 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Santa Monica Police Activities League | $5,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Oligo Nation | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration | $3,545 | 3 | 0% |
| Canine Companions for Independence Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Northridge Hospital Foundation | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hugs From Hughes | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Santa Monica Police Officers' Association Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Vision Africa Ministries Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Juanita Ameneros Foundation | $300 | 1 | n/a |
| Pasadena Police Foundation | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($203k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Jack R Walter Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 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.
Open a dossier: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Jack R Walter Foundation
- How much does The Jack R Walter Foundation give?
- The Jack R Walter Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $127,934 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Jack R Walter Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (38%), Education (25%), Health (15%).
- Who are The Jack R Walter Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Laurence School ($119k), Wasatch Adaptive Sports Inc ($111k), Wheels of Hope La ($38k).
- Does The Jack R Walter Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Jack R Walter 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 Jack R Walter Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Enterprise Holdings Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
- Where is The Jack R Walter Foundation based?
- The Jack R Walter Foundation is based in CA.
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