Iowa · Private foundation
Walden Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $183k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 33
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Walden Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $183k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $127k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $107k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $113k | 61% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $30k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $68k | 97% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $73k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tri County Food Pantry | $56,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Spencer Regional Healthcare Foundation | $50,050 | 4 | 1% |
| Atlas of Spencer | $36,750 | 5 | 8% |
| Creston Area Food Pantry Inc | $33,500 | 5 | 10% |
| Love Takes Root Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Kings and Queens Local Inc | $27,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Cross Winds Church Efca | $24,250 | 4 | n/a |
| Morningside University | $22,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Dickinson County Hunger Coalition | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Family Crisis Centers Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tri County Food Pantry | $56,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Spencer Regional Healthcare Foundation | $50,050 | 4 | 1% |
| Atlas of Spencer | $36,750 | 5 | 8% |
| Creston Area Food Pantry Inc | $33,500 | 5 | 10% |
| Love Takes Root Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Kings and Queens Local Inc | $27,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Cross Winds Church Efca | $24,250 | 4 | n/a |
| Morningside University | $22,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Dickinson County Hunger Coalition | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Family Crisis Centers Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Clay County Pals Inc | $9,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Clay County Heritage | $6,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Outreach Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Keokuk County | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ida County 4-H Foundation Inc | $4,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Impact Community Action Partnership Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Lutheran Lakeside Camp Association | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Sioux Community Health Center Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Clive Community Services | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Des Moines Area Religious Council | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Upper Des Moines Opportunity Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dickinson County Community Gardens | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Opportunities Unlimited | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Center for Financial Education | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Crittenton Center | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Girls Incorporated of Sioux City | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Special Olympics Iowa Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope Ministries | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Singomaha Inc | $750 | 1 | 0% |
| The Omaha Home for Boys | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| J-Hawk Soccer Club | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Lakeside Lab Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Puppy Jake Foundation | $250 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($324k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Walden Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Interstates Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Dwight and Marilyn Conover Foundation · The Chesterman Family Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation
How this is measured
About Walden Charitable Foundation
- How much does Walden Charitable Foundation give?
- Walden Charitable Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $183,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 33 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Walden Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (28%), Human Services (16%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are Walden Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Tri County Food Pantry ($56k), Spencer Regional Healthcare Foundation ($50k), Atlas of Spencer ($37k).
- Does Walden Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Walden Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Walden Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, Pella Rolscreen Foundation, Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation.
- Where is Walden Charitable Foundation based?
- Walden Charitable Foundation is based in IA.
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