· Private foundation
The Walker Adams Charitable Trust
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BECKET-CHIMNEY CORNERS YMCA | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THE POSSE FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| THE HARTSBROOK SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| THE ELI WHITNEY MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| OUR LITTLE HAVEN | $5,000 |
| RODEO AUSTIN | $5,000 |
| EPIPHANY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE METROWEST YMCA | $500 |
| THE MOUNT | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +288%- EWELI WHITNEY MUSEUM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +45%
- RARODEO AUSTIN2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- YNYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +75%
PINE STREET INN INCone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +22%
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.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
An independent college preparatory school for girls from age three through twelfth grade.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
In educating the whole child, eton school inspires creative, confident thinkers who have an enduring passion for learning and are poised to contribute to the world.
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
To operate a private school for age 3 through eighth grade students.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
We empower young people to explore and grow their unique intellectual, ethical, and creative capabilities, and to treasure diversity and growth in others.
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 TWO STATE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OUR LITTLE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds ELI WHITNEY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RODEO AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds HOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds EDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN 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.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Walker Adams Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Walker Adams Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Metrowest Young Men's Christian Association Inc: 33% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Edith Wharton Restoration Inc: 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Eli Whitney Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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