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W Walton Decd Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

W Walton Decd Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$47kEducation$30kArts & Culture$27kHealth$24kRecreation & Sports$13kYouth Development$12kEnvironment$8kCivil Rights$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$338k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALEM FREE CLINICS$5,000
FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC$2,500
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY$2,500
B-17 Alliance Museum & Restoration Hanga$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM-KEIZER: $3k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM-KEIZER: $3k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM-KEIZER: $3k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM-KEIZER: $3k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $3k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $3k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $3k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $2k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $1k → 14%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY PLACEMENT CTR: $2k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $2k → 14%LIBERTY HOUSE: $3k → 14%LIBERTY HOUSE: $3k → 14%Salem Leadership Foundation: $3k → 14%LIBERTY HOUSE: $2k → 14%CENTER FOR HOPE & SAFETY: $2k → 14%LIBERTY HOUSE: $2k → 14%CENTER FOR HOPE & SAFETY: $2k → 14%SALEM PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTER: $2k → 14%LIBERTY HOUSE: $1k → 14%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.
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.
$129k · 14 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
22

Total granted

$129k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
-12%

Still filing today

93%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +35%
  • SALEM FREE CLINICS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +3%
  • LIBERTY HOUSE
    6× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • B-17 ALLIANCE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +14%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF OSD
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
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
Salem Health and Wellness Foundation Inc
Health
2
Salem Historical Society
—
3
Portland Seamens Friend Society
—
4
Bush House Museum

The bush house museum enhances community engagement with our shared history by exploring and interpreting salem's bush family, bush's pasture park, the cultural diversity of salem history and the development of early oregon.

—
5
Trillium Family Services

Building brighter futures with children and families.

Housing & Shelter
6
The Salem Foundation

The salem foundation exists for the purpose of receiving, safeguarding, and disbursing funds for charitable purposes in the vicinity of salem, oregon.

Philanthropy
7
Salem Villages Incorporated (Central Org
—
8
Jubilee Hall Pdx
Employment
9
Salem Saturday Market

We are a non-profit member organization dedicated to bringing the best fresh local produce, flowers, meat/dairy, nursery products, authentic artisan food and artisan crafts to the Salem and surrounding communities.

Community Improvement
10
Welcome Home Coalition

Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…

Community Improvement
11
The Salem Rotary Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Salem for Refugees

To bring people & resources together to empower refugees to thrive.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salem Leadership Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Isaac's Room. 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

24 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. 24 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALEM FREE CLINICS: $14,500 · OtherSALEM FREE CLINICSCAPITAL FUTBOL CLUB: $10,500 · OtherCAPITAL FUTBOL CLUBSTRAUB OUTDOORS: $10,250 · OtherSTRAUB OUTDOORSSALEM FREE MEDICAL CLINICS: $8,500 · OtherSALEM FREE MEDICAL CLINICSBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF: $3,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF OSD: $2,500 · OtherB-17 Alliance Museum & Restoration Hanga: $2,500 · Other+11 more: $16,500 · Other+11 moreLIBERTY HOUSE: $12,000 · Human ServicesLIBERTY HOUSEASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM-KEIZER OREGON: $11,240 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM-KEI…FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INCCENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $3,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETYSALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Human ServicesSALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY PLACEMENT CENTER: $2,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $2,000 · Human Services+2 more: $3,000 · Human Services+2 moreWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $16,000 · EducationWILLAMETTE UNI…SALEMKEIZER COALITION FOR EQUALITY: $6,500 · EducationSALEMKEIZER CO…SALEM ART ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSALEM ART ASS…THE WILLAMETTE HERITAGE CENTER: $5,500 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLAMETT…B-17 ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Arts & CultureB-17 ALLIANCE…PENTACLE THEATRE INC: $2,000 · Arts & CulturePENTACLE THEA…LORD AND SCHRYVER CONSERVANCY: $5,600 · EnvironmentISAAC'S ROOM: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentSALEM PARKS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsADAPTIVE RIDING INSTITUTE DBA HORSES OF HOPE OREGON: $1,000 · Animals
Other$68,250Human Services$45,740Education$22,500Arts & Culture$20,500Environment$5,600Youth Development$5,000Recreation & Sports$2,000Animals$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSALEM FREE CLINICS: $14,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLIBERTY HOUSE: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM-KEIZER OREGON: $11,240 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCAPITAL FUTBOL CLUB: $10,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSTRAUB OUTDOORS: $10,250 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSALEM ART ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSALEMKEIZER COALITION FOR EQUALITY: $6,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLORD AND SCHRYVER CONSERVANCY: $5,600 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE WILLAMETTE HERITAGE CENTER: $5,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetISAAC'S ROOM: $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetB-17 ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY PLACEMENT CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPENTACLE THEATRE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSALEM-KEIZER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLAMETTE HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALEM PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCASA OF MARION COUNTY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetADAPTIVE RIDING INSTITUTE DBA HORSES OF HOPE OREGON: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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 Oregon Community …The Salem FoundationMaps Community Founda…The Autzen FoundationPioneer Trust Bank Na…Willamette Health Cou…Braemar Charitable Tr…Salem HealthUnited Way of the Mid…Marie Lamfrom Charita…OCF Joseph E Weston P…The Ford Family Found…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR44.6× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Salem Foundation · Maps Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Pioneer Trust Bank Na Foundation · Willamette Health Council · Braemar Charitable Trust · Salem Health · United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation

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 Walton Decd Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W Walton Decd Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Salemkeizer Coalition for Equality: 77% of income from government
  • Family Building Blocks Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Center for Hope and Safety: 68% of income from government
  • Christian Community Placement Center: 52% of income from government
  • Liberty House: 23% of income from government
  • Isaac's Room: 5% of income from government
  • Adaptive Riding Institute Dba Horses of Hope Oregon: 5% of income from government
  • Salem Leadership Foundation: 3% of income from government
  • Pentacle Theatre Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Capital Futbol Club: 2% of income from government
  • Willamette University: 1% of income from government
  • Salem Art Association: 1% of income from government
  • Casa of Marion County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Willamette Heritage Center: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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.

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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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By state
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