Alabama · Community foundation
Walker Area Community Foundation Inc
To serve as a nonprofit dedicated to the nurture and advancement of the community through forming and preserving charitable capital, and using the proceeds of that capital to better the community as a whole.
- $8.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 95
- Grants FY2025
- 81
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $37,600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $700,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 81
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $196M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Walker Area Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 93 | $7.8M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 81 | $7.5M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 73 | $5.2M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 70 | $3.9M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 71 | $3.6M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 73 | $2.3M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 73 | $3.0M | 48% |
| FY2018 | 48 | $1.6M | 29% |
100% 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$9.2MHealth$4.4MReligion$4.4MEducation$4.0MFood & Nutrition$3.8MCommunity Improvement$2.1MAnimals$1.3MPhilanthropy$1.3MOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
MI
IA
PA
CO
VA
TN
NC
AL
GA
TX
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hartt Inc | $2,244,957 | 4 | 100% |
| Uniteus Inc | $1,805,000 | 2 | 32% |
| Friends of Downtown Jasper | $1,499,913 | 7 | 75% |
| Alabama Baptist Childrens Home and Family Ministries | $1,280,919 | 7 | n/a |
| Big Oak Ranch Inc | $1,130,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Bevill State Community College | $1,118,949 | 6 | n/a |
| Kings Home Inc | $1,090,560 | 3 | 5% |
| St Mary's Episcopal Church | $955,717 | 7 | n/a |
| Backyard Blessings | $842,884 | 9 | 52% |
| Ruff Rescuers United for Furbabies | $800,565 | 2 | 42% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hartt Inc | $2,244,957 | 4 | 100% |
| Uniteus Inc | $1,805,000 | 2 | 32% |
| Friends of Downtown Jasper | $1,499,913 | 7 | 75% |
| Alabama Baptist Childrens Home and Family Ministries | $1,280,919 | 7 | n/a |
| Big Oak Ranch Inc | $1,130,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Bevill State Community College | $1,118,949 | 6 | n/a |
| Kings Home Inc | $1,090,560 | 3 | 5% |
| St Mary's Episcopal Church | $955,717 | 7 | n/a |
| Backyard Blessings | $842,884 | 9 | 52% |
| Ruff Rescuers United for Furbabies | $800,565 | 2 | 42% |
| Hope House Family Worship Center | $796,077 | 9 | n/a |
| First Baptist Church of Jasper | $748,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Fellowship House Inc | $731,704 | 4 | 5% |
| Jasper City Board of Education | $699,771 | 5 | n/a |
| United Way of Central Alabama Inc | $665,538 | 8 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $648,190 | 9 | n/a |
| Jasper Area Family Services Center Inc | $633,260 | 8 | 25% |
| Crisis Center Inc | $626,026 | 5 | 5% |
| Saban Center Foundation | $600,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Sight Savers of America Inc | $535,120 | 9 | 2% |
| Mission of Hope | $470,312 | 9 | 32% |
| HEAL Inc | $419,920 | 9 | 8% |
| Alabama Lions Sight Association Inc | $418,880 | 9 | 14% |
| The Link of Cullman County Inc | $410,000 | 1 | 34% |
| Walker County Community Agency Inc | $397,094 | 9 | 8% |
| Concerned Citizens for Our Youth Inc | $391,388 | 5 | 7% |
| The Arc of Walker County | $381,332 | 8 | 2% |
| Walker County Humane Society | $375,339 | 9 | 69% |
| Youth Advocate Programs Inc | $333,274 | 4 | 0% |
| Bridge Educational Philanthropy | $318,000 | 4 | 83% |
| Walker County Department of Human Resources | $290,591 | 8 | n/a |
| Masters Plan Ministries Inc | $273,325 | 4 | 17% |
| The Church at Cahaba Bend | $271,720 | 5 | n/a |
| Walker County Coalition for the Homeless | $267,105 | 4 | 76% |
| Camp McDowell | $267,050 | 8 | n/a |
| Literacy Council of Central Alabama | $258,700 | 9 | 5% |
| Capstone Health | $256,884 | 3 | 2% |
| Walker County Arts Alliance Inc | $254,072 | 9 | 63% |
| Greater Birmingham Habitat for Humanity Inc | $247,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention | $235,610 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Lights | $232,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Town of Parrish | $231,496 | 4 | n/a |
| Wild Alabama Inc | $222,945 | 5 | 15% |
| Raising Arrows | $220,677 | 2 | 16% |
| The Foundry Ministries Inc | $215,800 | 6 | 1% |
| Mission 34 Inc | $189,400 | 2 | 99% |
| Nick's Kids Foundation Inc | $180,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Hope for Women LLC | $177,626 | 5 | 40% |
| Bundles of Hope Inc | $174,100 | 6 | 3% |
| Northwest Al Mental Health Center | $171,178 | 3 | 1% |
| Addies Place Child Advocacy Center of Winston County | $168,280 | 2 | 27% |
| Cordova Economic & Industrial Development Authority | $166,845 | 4 | n/a |
| Preschool Partners | $165,332 | 4 | 5% |
| Carl Elliott Regional Library | $162,530 | 5 | n/a |
| Winston County Arts Council | $157,999 | 1 | 15% |
| Kids Play Alabama | $157,420 | 4 | 71% |
| Smile-A-Mile | $157,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Alabama Dept Conservation & Natural Res | $144,576 | 2 | n/a |
| Winston County Rescue Squad Inc | $140,000 | 3 | 13% |
| City of Cordova | $140,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Black Warrior Council | $134,538 | 8 | 2% |
| Arley Womens Club Inc | $133,209 | 4 | 97% |
| Downtown Jasper Business Association | $131,380 | 2 | 57% |
| Ronald McDonald House Alabama Inc | $130,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Main Street Alabama | $128,855 | 3 | 7% |
| Better Basics Inc | $126,234 | 5 | 2% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Alabama Inc | $122,500 | 6 | 1% |
| The Liberty Learning Foundation | $107,000 | 4 | 2% |
| New Prospect Baptist Church | $104,462 | 2 | n/a |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $102,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Here to Serve Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 51% |
| Kid One Transport System Inc | $91,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Walker County Childrens Policy Council Inc | $87,104 | 2 | 99% |
| Laura Crandall Brown Foundation | $86,500 | 5 | 4% |
| Freedom Rain Inc | $85,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Wellhouse Inc | $85,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Alabama Possible | $85,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Second Wind Programs Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Curry Volunteer Fire and Rescue Inc | $79,500 | 1 | 28% |
| Jalayah Hackman Foundation | $77,887 | 4 | n/a |
| 3D Revolution LLC | $77,794 | 1 | 35% |
| City of Jasper | $75,609 | 3 | n/a |
| The Recovery Den Inc | $75,111 | 1 | 34% |
| Birmingham Corps | $75,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Arley-Smith Lake Senior Outreach Center Inc | $72,450 | 2 | 36% |
| Alabama Association of Nonprofits | $71,100 | 5 | 8% |
| Sweetwater Outreach Inc | $68,500 | 1 | 26% |
| Christians Place Mission | $67,600 | 3 | 34% |
| The Children's Hospital of Alabama | $67,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Walker County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc | $66,887 | 5 | 6% |
| Girls Incorporated of Central Alabama | $65,700 | 8 | 1% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $62,759 | 2 | 0% |
| Townley Community Center Inc | $60,792 | 4 | n/a |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Birmingham Inc | $60,318 | 4 | 1% |
| Middle Alabama Area Agency on Aging | $60,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Freshwater Land Trust | $60,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Willow Project | $57,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Walker County Board of Education | $57,060 | 3 | n/a |
| Indian Creek Youth Camp | $56,564 | 2 | 12% |
| Winston County Board of Education | $56,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Samford University | $56,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Honeyword Foundation Inc | $55,950 | 1 | 12% |
| The Greater Birmingham Humane Society Inc | $54,468 | 2 | 1% |
| Alabama Symphonic Association Inc | $52,974 | 4 | 0% |
| Grace Ministries Inc | $51,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Corinth Baptist Church | $50,611 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Alabama | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Dora | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southern Research Institute | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Magic Moments | $48,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Steps Ministries | $45,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Jasper First United Methodist Church | $44,700 | 3 | n/a |
| Birmingham Regional Paratransit Consorti | $43,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Yerkwood Community Improvement Association | $42,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Grace Kitchens Inc | $41,034 | 1 | n/a |
| Dilworth Church of God | $41,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Winston County Natural Resources Council | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | $38,800 | 3 | n/a |
| Walker County Growth Alliance Inc | $38,075 | 1 | n/a |
| The Young Men's Christian Association of Birmingham Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs | $35,000 | 3 | 1% |
| City of Haleyville | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Operation Aviation Foundation | $35,000 | 1 | 34% |
| Glenwood Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Denver Center for the Performing Arts | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope Is the Anchor Inc | $34,579 | 2 | n/a |
| Camp Cool Inc | $34,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Hometown Organizing Project | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Auburn University Foundation | $28,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Walker County Christian Chorus | $28,000 | 4 | n/a |
| American Diabetes Association | $27,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Birmingham Zoo Inc | $27,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Healing House LLC | $27,025 | 2 | n/a |
| Arthritis Foundation Inc | $27,000 | 2 | 0% |
| McWane Science Center | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Donorschooseorg | $25,005 | 1 | 0% |
| Downtown Jimmie Hale Mission | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hispanic and Immigrant Center of Alabama | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Jasper Main Street | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Carbon Hill Womens Club Inc | $23,116 | 1 | n/a |
| Washington County Commission | $23,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Main Street Ministries Inc | $22,500 | 2 | 21% |
| Children's Aid Society of Alabama | $20,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Country Cattery | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Red Mountain Theatre Company Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $18,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Birthwell Partners | $18,250 | 1 | 5% |
| Carbon Hill Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc | $16,250 | 1 | n/a |
| General Council on Finance & Admins of the United | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama Inc | $15,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Equines Assisting Special Individuals | $15,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Jubilee House | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Iowa State University Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Birmingham Botanical Society Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Alabama Suicide Prevention and Resources Coalition | $15,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Oasis Counseling for Women and Children | $13,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Empire Volunteer Fire Department | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Service Dogs Alabama Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Birmingham Landmarks Inc | $11,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Love One International | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Positive Maturity Inc | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| New Hope Through Gods Love Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Walker College Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Red Cross | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Pathways Professional Counseling | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Your-Town Alabama Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Childcare Resources | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Jasper Area Ministerial Emergency Service Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Walker County Commission | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Alabama New College | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Full Life Ahead Foundation | $8,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Impact America | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Birmingham Children's Theatre Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Forgotten Tails Rescue of Ala | $7,300 | 1 | 5% |
| City of Cordova | $7,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Carbon Hill Volunteer Fire and Rescue | $7,105 | 1 | n/a |
| The Society of St Andrew Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Grief Support Service | $6,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Mothers Milk Bank of Alabama | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Alzheimers of Central Alabama Inc | $5,580 | 1 | 1% |
| Oakman Fire Department | $5,320 | 1 | n/a |
| Focus on Recovery Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Alabama Service Project Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bethel Apostolic Holiness Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North Alabama Center for Educational Excellence | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Walker Area Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 26 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 121 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 121.
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.
Alabama Power Foundation IncAL112.4× affinity74 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Protective Life Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Community Partnership of Alabama Inc · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Cawaco Resource Conservation & Development Council 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.
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About Walker Area Community Foundation Inc
- How much does Walker Area Community Foundation Inc give?
- Walker Area Community Foundation Inc reported 95 grants totaling $7,964,996 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 81 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Walker Area Community Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Health (12%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Walker Area Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hartt Inc ($2.2M), Uniteus Inc ($1.8M), Friends of Downtown Jasper ($1.5M).
- Does Walker Area Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Walker Area Community Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alabama Power Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama.
- Where is Walker Area Community Foundation Inc based?
- Walker Area Community Foundation Inc is based in AL.
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