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The Jeff and Mary 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.

$120k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
32%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$68,409
Organizations funded a year
20 to 25
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$3k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 32% of the organizations The Jeff and Mary Walker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
Human ServicesInternationalCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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 arriving9$120k22%
FY202422$303k32%
FY202325$265k24%
FY202223$254k17%
FY202124$283k13%
FY202022$225k32%
FY201921$260k24%
FY201820$113k45%
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What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$555kInternational$381kHealth$217kPhilanthropy$195kCommunity Improvement$164kHousing & Shelter$115kPublic Safety & Disaster$78kEnvironment$69kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
NM
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($712k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Jeff and Mary Walker Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCharity Global Inc: $439,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetShanta Foundation Inc: $170,945 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetPine River Shares: $163,082 over 2y, 11% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $77,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities: $73,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLupus Foundation of America Inc: $63,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Corps: $32,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHomes for Our Troops Inc: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Rescue Mission: $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVitamin Angel Alliance Inc: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCare and Share Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Denver Homeless Voice: $9,521 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of America: $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEnergy Outreach Colorado: $9,083 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Pagosa Springs: $4,600 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPets for Vets Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding America: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Public Media Inc: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAsian Pacific Childrens Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildrens Oncology Services Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRazom Inc: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMusic in the Mountains Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDesert Botanical Garden Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Phoenix Theatre Company and Subsidiary: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Resource Center: $113 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Folio Theatre: $100 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 31.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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About The Jeff and Mary Walker Foundation

How much does The Jeff and Mary Walker Foundation give?
The Jeff and Mary Walker Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $120,111 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Jeff and Mary Walker Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), International (20%), Health (12%).
Who are The Jeff and Mary Walker Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Charity Global Inc ($439k), Shanta Foundation Inc ($171k), Pine River Shares ($163k).
Does The Jeff and Mary Walker Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Jeff and Mary Walker 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 Jeff and Mary Walker Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Jeff and Mary Walker Foundation based?
The Jeff and Mary Walker Foundation is based in CO.

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 63 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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