· Private foundation
The Walker Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Anchored by a single position — about 97% of reported assets are held in U S Trust.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,125 |
| GTU | $5,000 |
| GENDERCIDE | $5,000 |
| GIVE WELL | $2,000 |
| BUILDING FUTURES | $1,919 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,273 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,090 |
| SLED ENDOWMENT FUND | $1,054 |
| GEORGE MARK HOUSE | $1,052 |
| SF FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| SOCIETY OF YOUNG INKLINGS | $1,000 |
| PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| APTP | $600 |
| ALAMEDA COUNTY FOOD BANK | $527 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
144 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 109 since wound down; 14 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- GTGRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION2× · 2019–2021 · $39k · revenue +70%
- OPOAKLAND PROMISE5× · 2017–2021 · $14k · revenue +185%
- EBEAST BAY INNOVATION ACADEMY4× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- G(GTU (GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION)one grant, 2020 · $11k
- P(PVF (PACIFIC VISION FOUNDATION)one grant, 2020 · $6k
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…
Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Women's Freedom Center and the most unlike its peers is Sled. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
131 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 131 of the 316 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PACIFIC VISION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND PROMISE ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY INNOVATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds California Indian Environmental Alliance ↗
- Who funds BIG CAT RESCUE CORP ↗
- Who funds Pacifica Resource Center ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF YOUNG INKLINGS INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Walker Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Community Vision Inc — 92% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.