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The Thomas and Barbara Walker Fdn at a glance

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The Thomas and Barbara Walker Fdn

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.

$272k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$86k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$171kHuman Services$106kReligion$32kArts & Culture$9kHealth$7kInternational$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $15k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $257k
$1,600
Median grant
10
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASTILLEJO FAMILY DAF$85,515
WALKER FAMILY FUND$85,515
SUSAN WALKER HOLLIDAY FUND$85,515
PRECEPT MINISTRIES$5,000
THIRD STREET EDUCATION CENTER$1,700
BRIDGE FOSTER MINISTRY$1,700
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$1,600
SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS$1,500
COVENANT REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CH$1,000
BIBLE BROADCASTING NETWORK$500
PAACS$500
MOODY CHURCH$500
GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL$500
ABBEVILLE INSTITUTE$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CASTILLEJO FAMILY DAF: $86k → 7%LIGONIER: $3k → 11%PROJECT MEDSEND: $2k → 9%GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL: $500 → 14%COVENANT REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN: $4k → 17%THIRD STREET EDUCATION CENTER: $3k → 20%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2k → 21%MOODY CHURCH: $500 → 14%LIFELINE PREGNANCY HELP CENTER: $5k → 4%PRECEPT MINISTRIES: $5k → 6%STONEWALL BRIGADE: $3k → 8%UNITED METHODIST FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 9%SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS: $5k → 12%SUSAN WALKER HOLLIDAY FUND: $86k → 19%LIGONIER MINISTRIES: $3k → 11%THE GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL: $500 → 14%COVENANT REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN: $2k → 17%THIRD STREET EDUCATION CENTER: $3k → 20%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2k → 21%MOODY CHURCH: $500 → 14%UNITED METHODIST FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 9%SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS: $2k → 12%LIGONIER MINISTRIES: $1k → 11%COVENANT REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CH: $1k → 17%THIRD STREET EDUCATION CENTER: $3k → 20%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2k → 21%MOODY CHURCH: $500 → 14%UNITED METHODIST FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 9%COVENANT REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN: $1k → 17%THIRD STREET EDUCATION CENTER: $2k → 20%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $500 → 21%UNITED METHODIST FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 9%COVENANT REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN: $1k → 17%THIRD STREET EDUCATION CENTER: $2k → 20%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $500 → 21%BETHEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 20%BRIDGE FOSTER MINISTRY: $2k → 20%BRIDGE FOSTER MINISTRY: $2k → 20%BRIDGE FOSTER MINISTRY: $2k → 20%BRIDGE FOSTER MINISTRY: $2k → 20%BRIDGE FOSTER MINISTRY: $2k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
OH
PA
CT
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$67k · 13 repeat orgs$279k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
6

Total granted

$67k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
+25%

Still filing today

38%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $263k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +106%
  • IT
    IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +29%
  • BB
    BIBLE BROADCASTING NETWORK INCORPORATED
    4× · 2022–2025 · $2k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • LP
    LIFELINE PREGNANCY HELP CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • L
    LIGONIER
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • BU
    BETHEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Redeemed Christian Church of God

To strengthen marriages and families, to encourage Christian fellowship as we evangelize the lost around us and minister to the needy with the resources God has blessed us.

Religion
2
Good News Publishers

Crossway is a not-for-profit Christian publishing ministry of Good News Publishers that exists to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ through publishing and other means, in order, by God's grace: to bring people to Christ as their Lord and…

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3
Reconciliation Ministries International Inc

Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…

Religion
4
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

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5
Explore God Network
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6
Equippers Group International

To produce and publish training materials for church leadership and development. To facilitate churches groups and individual participation in world mission.

Religion
7
Intentional Life Media

Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.

Religion
8
Bible Thinker Inc

Bible Thinker, Inc is a ministry dedicated to equipping people to think and live biblically. There are three main areas of teaching that we focus on:1. Teaching accurate theology based on exegeting the text of the Bible and confronting…

Religion
9
Risen Jesus Inc

Risen Jesus, Inc. provides religious education to college students and adults. This is accomplished via public lectures, debates and resources written and electronic on the ministry website www.risenjesus.com. Dr. Michael Licona is also a…

Religion
10
Propagate Media Incorporaton

This media outreach tool affords preachers and teachers of the Word in Christs Kingdom the global projection of media gospel. Our vision of Propagate Media Incorporation is to lift Jesus Christ higher for the world to see! But I, when I am…

Religion
11
Walking in Grace Media Ministries Inc

Walking in Grace seeks, with purpose and passion, to disseminate clear, relevant, orthodox teaching of God's Word using all available means in order to "Advance God's Truth for God's Glory."

Religion
12
Plain Truth Ministries Worldwide

Ptm worldwide publishes christianity without the religion magazine and plain truth magazine. ptm further serves with daily radio programs, blogs, bible surveys and many other free inspirational resources on its website, www.ptm.org

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ligonier Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CASTILLEJO FAMILY DAF: $85,515 · OtherCASTILLEJO FAMILY DAFSUSAN WALKER HOLLIDAY FUND: $85,515 · OtherSUSAN WALKER HOLLIDAY FUNDWALKER FAMILY FUND: $85,515 · OtherWALKER FAMILY FUNDUNITED METHODIST FAMILY SERVICES: $12,034 · Other+12 more: $46,700 · Other+12 moreThird Street Education Center Inc: $12,350 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $6,100 · ReligionLigonier Ministries Inc: $4,000 · ReligionIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $2,500 · ReligionBIBLE BROADCASTING NETWORK INCORPORATED: $1,750 · Religion+1 more: $250 · ReligionABBEVILLE INSTITUTE LTD: $2,000 · EducationPROJECT MEDSEND: $1,500 · Education
Other$315,279Religion$26,950Education$3,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThird Street Education Center Inc: $12,350 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS INC THE STONEWALL BRIGADE #1296: $6,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $6,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetABBEVILLE INSTITUTE LTD: $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBIBLE BROADCASTING NETWORK INCORPORATED: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT MEDSEND: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGod's World Publications Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Third Street Education Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS INC THE STONEWALL BRIGADE #1296 ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds Ligonier Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ABBEVILLE INSTITUTE LTD ↗
  • Who funds BIBLE BROADCASTING NETWORK INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT MEDSEND ↗
  • Who funds God's World Publications Inc ↗

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.

American Endowment Fo…Raymond James Charita…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH11.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Thomas and Barbara Walker Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thomas and Barbara Walker Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 24 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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