· Private foundation
The Walters-Roth Foundation Inc co A J Walters
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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Brennan Center for Justice | $20,000 |
| Mishkan Chicago | $6,000 |
| Chicago Sinai Congregation | $4,070 |
| Feeding America | $4,000 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $3,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of Am | $3,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $3,000 |
| Save the Children | $1,022 |
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 (FY19–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Feeding America6× · 2019–2025 · $21k · revenue +77%- LPLINCOLN PARK VILLAGE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $16k · revenue +25%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC6× · 2019–2025 · $15k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- PCPAWS CHICAGOgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +151%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +49%- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +67%
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.
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
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…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
The american civil liberties union of arizona is the state's premier guardian of liberty working through the arizona legislature and communities statewide to defend and preserve individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the…
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
How this is measured
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 18 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 WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds SHALVA INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Jewish Historical Society ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Walters-Roth Foundation Inc co A J Walters funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Walters-Roth Foundation Inc co A J Walters. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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