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W W Walker Jr and Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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W W Walker Jr and Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$49k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$122kArts & Culture$88kHuman Services$50kCivil Rights$35kEducation$30kHealth$20kFood & Nutrition$12kCrime & Legal$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$750
Median grant
7
States reached
$804k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIDEWALK FILM FESTIVAL CINEMA$10,000
PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC$5,000
REDEEMER COMMUNITY CHURCH$5,000
PARKINSON'S RESEARCH OF ALABAMA$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
Individual grant recipient$1,000
COMMUNITY BIBLE STUDY$1,000
RESTORATION ACADEMY$1,000
PREBORN$750
MERCURY ONE$750
FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC: $5k → 9%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC: $5k → 26%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $1k → 5%PREBORN: $750 → 16%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC: $3k → 9%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC: $3k → 9%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC: $2k → 9%THE LOVELADY CENTER: $500 → 16%THE LOVELADY CENTER: $500 → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $1k → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $500 → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $500 → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $500 → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $500 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
OR
IN
CT
CA
CO
AR
TN
SC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$291k · 24 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
23

Total granted

$291k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+37%

Still filing today

46%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsArts & CultureReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HH
    HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $24k · revenue +18%
  • PH
    PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +41%
  • TR
    THE RESTORATION ACADEMY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $16k · revenue +154%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • SM
    ST MARY'S ON THE HIGHLANDS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • AT
    ALABAMA TRAILS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +134%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Arborbrook Christian Academy

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.

Education
2
Alabama Partnership for Children

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.

Education
3
Annapolis Christian Academy

Private school for grades k-12

Education
4
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
5
Banner Christian School Inc

To operate a christian school serving grades k-12

Education
6
Agape Schools

Religious preschool and daycare services

Human Services
7
Crestwood Day School Inc

Crestwood day school is a private elementary (k-6th) grade school in alabama.

Education
8
The Arbor School

To educate, empower, and build hope for children with significant special needs and their families.

Education
9
Palm Beach Day Academy Inc

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.

Education
10
Trinity Oaks Christian Academy

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.

Education
11
Covenant Academy of Mobile

Operation of a public charter school in Mobile Alabama.

Human Services
12
Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stair of Birmingham; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
20/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SIDEWALK FILM FESTIVAL CINEMA: $62,000 · OtherSIDEWALK FILM FESTIVAL CINEMAFIRST PRESBYTERIAN ATHENS CHURCH: $48,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN ATHENS CHURCHIPC FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherIPC FOUNDATIONHELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC: $24,000 · OtherHELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INCREDEEMER COMMUNITY CHURCH: $23,500 · OtherREDEEMER COMMUNITY CHURCHTHE NAVIGATORS: $15,500 · Other+34 more: $100,750 · Other+34 moreTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY: $16,000 · EducationAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationTHE WEBB SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM: $2,250 · EducationINDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL: $1,000 · EducationPRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesFIRST LIGHT INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM RAIN INC: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $750 · Human ServicesEAGLE RANCH INC: $5,000 · HealthOasis Counseling for Women and Children: $4,000 · HealthTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $1,000 · HealthQuarterbacking Children's Health Foundation: $7,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Kitchens of Birmingham: $7,000 · Food & NutritionONE PLACE METRO AL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$303,750Education$29,250Human Services$23,750Health$10,000Philanthropy$7,000Food & Nutrition$7,000Crime & Legal$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC: $24,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC: $18,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY: $16,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetQuarterbacking Children's Health Foundation: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Kitchens of Birmingham: $7,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA TRAILS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEAGLE RANCH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE PLACE METRO AL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WEBB SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOasis Counseling for Women and Children: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFIRST LIGHT INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS CASA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM: $2,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALABAMA CASA NETWORK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMASON MUSIC FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE WELLHOUSE INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLEPROJECT: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM RAIN INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bible Study: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercury One Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS PLAY ALABAMA: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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 HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Community Kitchens of Birmingham ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA TRAILS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE PLACE METRO AL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 MASON MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE WELLHOUSE INC ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…The Daniel Foundation…Alabama Power Foundat…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Hill Crest Foundation…Protective Life Found…Dunn-French FoundationOrlean & Ralph W Bees…Nall-Whatley Foundati…Campbell Estelle S Ch…Mike and Gillian Good…Debardeleben Foundati…
The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL37.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization W W Walker Jr and Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W W Walker Jr and Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to W W Walker Jr and Family Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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