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Walker Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$310k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Education$3.7MCommunity Improvement$1.4MReligion$1.3MArts & Culture$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.2MScience & Tech$1.0MHealth$761kPublic Benefit$498kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 28 grants below total $1,281,390 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,204,390 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $923,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $320k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $385k
  • $250k+2 grants · $560k
$25,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce Foundation$310,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc$250,000
Aurelia Institute Inc$100,000
Giving Tuesday Inc$75,000
Hopewell Fund$60,000
World Research Foundation$50,000
National Philanthropic Trust$50,000
Columbia University in the City of New York$50,000
Inquiring Systems Inc$48,041
Johns Hopkins University$33,333
Friends of McGill University Inc$33,333
University of California San Francisco Foundation$33,333
Psychedelic Science Funders Collaborative (PSFC)$25,000
The 1440 Foundation$25,000
Center for Natural Intelligence Corp$25,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 19 repeat orgs$7.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +5% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
75

Total granted

$3.9M
$7.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+4%

Still filing today

89%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $292k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyHealthEnvironmentSocial SciencePublic BenefitOther

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

  • BC
    BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $800k · revenue +25%
  • NP
    NEW PROFIT INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $750k · revenue +52%
  • AI
    AURELIA INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1.9M · revenue +23%
  • UC
    UVA, CONTEMPLATIVE SCIENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $1.1M
  • UC
    UVA, CONTEMPLATING SCIENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $415k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
6
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
7
Institute for Protein Innovation Inc

The institute for protein innovation is advancing protein science to accelerate research and improve human health.

Health
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
12
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is The 1440 Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCollege Foundation SupportPrivate Grantmaking Foundat…Christian Outreach Ministri…Childhood Cancer SupportCharter and Independent Sch…Youth Development CentersVolunteer Fire & RescueVeteran Support ServicesEnvironmental Advocacy and …Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity Hospital SystemsGovernment Accountability &…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%7%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%17%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/65
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,500

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.

03the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 113 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
32/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UVA, CONTEMPLATIVE SCIENCE CENTER — $1,060,000 · OtherUVA, CONTEMPLATIVE SCIENCE CENTERUVA, CONTEMPLATING SCIENCE CENTER — $414,808 · OtherUVA, CONTEMPLATING SCIENCE CENTERUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $400,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAGRAMMY MUSIC EDUSCATION COALITION — $333,333 · OtherGRAMMY MUSIC EDUSCATION COALITIONMcintire School Foundation — $310,000 · OtherMcintire School FoundationHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL — $250,000 · OtherUVA, CONTEMPLATIVE SCEINCE CENTER — $201,000 · OtherInquiring Systems Biofield Collaborative — $196,564 · Other+71 more — $2,482,918 · Other+71 moreUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION — $1,900,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATIONBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $800,000 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $620,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIR…+7 more — $434,331 · Education+7 moreROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $500,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELL…HOPEWELL FUND — $165,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL …DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyDRAPER RI…GIVING TUESDAY INC — $85,000 · PhilanthropyGIVING TU…NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL — $49,800 · Philanthropy+5 more — $72,500 · Philanthropy+5 moreNEW PROFIT INC — $750,000 · Community ImprovementINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $48,041 · Community ImprovementJUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $150,000 · Social Science+1 more — $10,000 · Social ScienceBRAINFUTURES INCORPORATED — $170,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $52,000 · HealthWORLD RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthFireside Project Inc — $25,000 · HealthLUMINARY IMPACT FUND — $25,000 · Health+1 more — $2,100 · HealthAURELIA INSTITUTE INC — $300,000 · Science & TechINSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES — $22,500 · Science & Tech
Other$5,648,623Education$3,754,331Philanthropy$1,022,300Community Improvement$798,041Social Science$560,000Health$324,100Science & Tech$322,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION — $1,900,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $800,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC — $750,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $620,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAURELIA INSTITUTE INC — $300,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetBRAINFUTURES INCORPORATED — $170,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $165,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $116,666 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $99,999 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIVING TUESDAY INC — $85,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC — $66,666 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe End Fund Inc — $57,066 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $52,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOCRACY WORKS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWORKMONEY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Political Accountability — $50,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL — $49,800 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $48,041 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRONTSTREAM GLOBAL FUND — $42,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONSCIOUSNESS AND HEALING INITIATIVE INC — $33,415 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetFireside Project Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES — $22,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPINE POINT SCHOOL INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLIER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE SERVE REMEMBER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…ImpactassetsincGates FoundationNew Venture FundThe Ford FoundationThe Joe & Sandy Sambe…National Philanthropi…Rockefeller Family Fu…The William & Flora H…Tides FoundationSteven & Alexandra Co…The Horace W Goldsmit…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA22.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gates Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Ford Foundation · The Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Tides Foundation · Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation Inc · The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Walker Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Walker Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 113 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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