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The Walker Family Foundation Blair Nichols - Trustee

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$47kHousing & Shelter$41kHealth$34kCivil Rights$26kArts & Culture$15kYouth Development$15kEducation$10kInternational$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$431k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALL SAINTS CHURCH$15,000
Orlando Jazz Collective Inc$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ORLANDO: $22k → 13%HELPLINE HOUSE: $3k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ORLANDO: $11k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ORLANDO: $8k → 13%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

WA
MN
NY
MA
PA
CA
KY
DC
GA
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$130k · 5 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
13

Total granted

$130k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+80%

Still filing today

80%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCivil RightsInternationalEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $41k · revenue +66%
  • TB
    THE BRIDGE TO RECOVERY INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $32k · revenue +56%
  • ISLANDWOOD
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $22k · revenue ×11
  • TT
    Teen Talking Circles
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +10%
  • TR
    THE RENFREW FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
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
Belong Partners

BELONG Partners is an education equity nonprofit that believes in a future where everyone has the opportunity to thrive because they know they matter and belong. We partner with schools and organizations to build equitable communities…

Youth Development
2
Techbridge Inc

Techbridge breaks the cycle of generational poverty through the innovative use of technology to transform nonprofit and community impact. techbridge's work is focused on four pillars: hunger relief, homeless support, social justice and…

Philanthropy
3
Partnersglobal

Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.

International
4
Partnership On Ai to Benefit People and Society

Bringing diverse voices together across global sectors, disciplines, and demographics so developments in ai advance positive outcomes for people and society.

Science & Tech
5
Transformca dba Transform

Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.

Community Improvement
6
Out & Equal

To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.

Social Science
7
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

—
8
Asylee Women Enterprise Inc

Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.

International
9
International Budget Partnership

Ibp works with civil society, governments, international institutions and the private sector to bring about a world in which empowered citizens participate in open, inclusive public budgeting processes to shape policies and practices that…

International
10
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

—
11
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
12
Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thousand Currents; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 19 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALL SAINTS CHURCH: $45,000 · OtherALL SAINTS CHURCHTHE BRIDGE TO RECOVERY INC: $31,865 · OtherTHE BRIDGE TO RECOVERY INCORLANDO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: $10,000 · OtherORLANDO JAZZ COLLECTIVETHE RENFREW FOUNDATION: $5,635 · OtherTHE RENFREW FOUNDATIONBAINBRIDGE PERFORMING ARTS: $5,000 · Other+3 more: $7,365 · Other+3 moreFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC: $40,750 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER O…Teen Talking Circles: $7,100 · Human ServicesTeen Talking CirclesHELPLINE HOUSE: $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC: $22,100 · Civil RightsTHE LOVELAND F…ADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND: $3,550 · Civil RightsADVOCATES FOR …International Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 · InternationalTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $3,550 · InternationalSPURS OF HOPE INC: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentISLANDWOOD: $4,865 · EnvironmentPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 · HealthTHE SEATTLE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY: $2,500 · Education
Other$104,865Human Services$50,350Civil Rights$25,650International$8,550Youth Development$7,500Environment$4,865Health$2,500Education$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC: $40,750 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE BRIDGE TO RECOVERY INC: $31,865 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSPURS OF HOPE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLANDWOOD: $4,865 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND: $3,550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $3,550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPLINE HOUSE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEATTLE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY: $2,500 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.

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.

One Call for AllMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
One Call for AllWA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: One Call for All · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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
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 Walker Family Foundation Blair Nichols - Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Walker Family Foundation Blair Nichols - Trustee. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 19 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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