Michigan · Private foundation
The Walters Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $18M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 46% of the organizations The Walters Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 21 | $1.2M | 52% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $926k | 46% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $985k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $854k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $808k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $724k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $334k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $55k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservation Resource Alliance | $550,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Huron Pines Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc | $425,000 | 5 | 4% |
| The Detroit Institute of Arts | $400,108 | 4 | 0% |
| Downtown Boxing Gym Youth Program | $375,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Friends of Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary | $345,000 | 3 | 57% |
| Eastern Market Corporation | $265,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Detroit Riverfront Conservancy Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Racquet Up Detroit | $210,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Detroit 90 90 | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wayne State University Research and Technology Park in the City of Detroit | $200,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($414k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Walters Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · WK Kellogg Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · William Davidson Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · The Gilbert Family Foundation · Hudson-Webber Foundation
How this is measured
About The Walters Family Foundation
- How much does The Walters Family Foundation give?
- The Walters Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $1,248,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Walters Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (27%), Education (18%), Community Improvement (15%).
- Who are The Walters Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Conservation Resource Alliance ($550k), Huron Pines Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc ($425k), The Detroit Institute of Arts ($400k).
- Does The Walters Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Walters Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Walters Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, DTE Energy Foundation, The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation.
- Where is The Walters Family Foundation based?
- The Walters Family Foundation is based in MI.
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