California · Private foundation
The Walker Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $38k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 101
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,125
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 104
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations The Walker Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 | 49 | $38k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 101 | $80k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 95 | $79k | 69% |
| FY2022 | 98 | $84k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 104 | $87k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 93 | $61k | 59% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $57k | 37% |
| FY2018 | 54 | $52k | 46% |
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Vision Foundation | $42,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Graduate Theological Union | $39,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Oakland Promise | $13,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Families in Vietnam | $8,000 | 6 | n/a |
| East Bay Innovation Academy | $7,023 | 4 | 0% |
| Performing Animal Welfare Society | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc | $6,538 | 6 | 0% |
| Building Futures Inc | $5,458 | 5 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 135 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 180 recipients with no EIN on record ($341k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Walker Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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: East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · Horizons Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Esb Charitable Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Koret Foundation
How this is measured
About The Walker Foundation Inc
- How much does The Walker Foundation Inc give?
- The Walker Foundation Inc reported 49 grants totaling $37,531 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 104 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Walker Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (10%), Education (9%), Religion (8%).
- Who are The Walker Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pacific Vision Foundation ($43k), Graduate Theological Union ($39k), Oakland Promise ($14k).
- Does The Walker Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Walker Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Walker Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Bay Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, McNabb Foundation.
- Where is The Walker Foundation Inc based?
- The Walker Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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