Michigan · Private foundation
The Shaw & Betty 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 51
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $26M
- 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 Shaw & Betty 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; $495k 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 | 52 | $1.2M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $1.3M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $1.1M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $1.0M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy | $350,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Northwoods Music Collaborative Inc | $240,000 | 5 | 58% |
| Sheridan County Memorial Hospital Foundation | $220,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Great Lakes Outdoors Foundation | $203,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Sheridan Community Land Trust | $172,500 | 5 | 4% |
| America First Legal Foundation | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Preserve Hickory | $137,000 | 4 | 90% |
| Kalamazoo College | $135,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity of the Eastern Bighorns Inc | $122,500 | 5 | 4% |
| Wings of Mercy Inc | $100,000 | 5 | 5% |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Shaw & Betty Walker Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 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: Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · Chandler H Kibbee and Mercedes K Kibbee Foundation for Children · Vernon & Rowena Griffith Foundation · Muriel and Seymour Thickman Family Foundation · Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · The Seidler Foundation · The Roberts Family Foundation · Bf & Rose H Perkins Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Shaw & Betty Walker Foundation with peer funders
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About The Shaw & Betty Walker Foundation
- How much does The Shaw & Betty Walker Foundation give?
- The Shaw & Betty Walker Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $1,200,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 51 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Shaw & Betty Walker Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (12%), Health (8%), Education (8%).
- Who are The Shaw & Betty Walker Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy ($350k), Northwoods Music Collaborative Inc ($240k), Sheridan County Memorial Hospital Foundation ($220k).
- Does The Shaw & Betty Walker Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Shaw & Betty 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 Shaw & Betty Walker Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation, Wyoming Community Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Shaw & Betty Walker Foundation based?
- The Shaw & Betty Walker Foundation is based in MI.
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