· Private foundation
W W Walker Jr and Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of W W WALKER JR AND FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIDEWALK FILM FESTIVAL CINEMA | $10,000 |
| REDEEMER COMMUNITY CHURCH | $5,000 |
| PARKINSON'S RESEARCH OF ALABAMA | $5,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC | $5,000 |
| ONE FAMILY METRO ALABAMA FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER | $5,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN ATHENS CHURCH | $4,500 |
| DALLAS CASA | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| QUARTERBACKING CHILDREN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| RESTORATION ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY BIBLE STUDY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MERCURY ONE | $750 |
| PREBORN | $750 |
| STAIR BIRMINGHAM | $500 |
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 (FY20–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- HHHELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC5× · 2017–2021 · $24k · revenue +18%
- PHPRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +41%
- TRTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY7× · 2018–2024 · $16k · revenue +154%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- SMST MARY'S ON THE HIGHLANDS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $7k
- ATALABAMA TRAILS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +134%
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.
Arborbrook Christian Academy partners with parents to equip, empower, and encourage students to cultivate godly character, pursue life-long learning, and love the Lord Jesus Christ.
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
Private school for grades k-12
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To operate a christian school serving grades k-12
Religious preschool and daycare services
Crestwood day school is a private elementary (k-6th) grade school in alabama.
To educate, empower, and build hope for children with significant special needs and their families.
The foundation of the palm beach day academy's program is the education of our students in an academically challenging and compassion rich environment that guides each child toward personal excellence of mind, body and character.
Trinity oaks christian academny partners with the christian home and church in the training of children maximizing their potential to lead christian lives according to biblical standards.
Operation of a public charter school in Mobile Alabama.
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stair of Birmingham and the most unlike its peers is Alabama Trails Foundation Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 56 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
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 HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Community Kitchens of Birmingham ↗
- Who funds Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA TRAILS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONE PLACE METRO AL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE WEBB SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Oasis Counseling for Women and Children ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CASA ↗
- Who funds STAIR OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA CASA NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WELLHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MASON MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Nall-Whatley Foundation · Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc
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 W W Walker Jr and Family Charitable Foundation 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.
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.
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