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Walker Family Foundation at a glance

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Walker Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$320k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$499kCommunity Improvement$300kPhilanthropy$94kPublic Safety & Disaster$38kAnimals$30kYouth Development$15kReligion$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIANA CENTER FOR BUSINESS ETHICS INC$300,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
INDIANAPOLIS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GREATER OMAHA ALLIANCE FOR BUSINESS ETHICS AT CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY: $500 → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $18k → 11%INDIANA CENTER FOR BUSINESS ETHICS INC: $300k → 5%THE MIND TRUST: $10k → 16%GARRETT EVANGELICAL SEMINARY: $2k → 14%SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE: $5k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $18k → 11%CARMEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 5%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $5k → 16%SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE: $5k → 13%THE MIND TRUST: $5k → 16%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $5k → 16%TINDLEY ACCELERATED SCHOOLS: $10k → 16%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $5k → 16%TINDLEY ACCELERATED SCHOOLS: $9k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 16%TINDLEY ACCELERATED SCHOOLS: $3k → 16%ST LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5k → 16%MARIAN UNIVERSITY: $225k → 16%MARIAN UNIVERSITY: $200k → 16%INDIANAPOLIS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $10k → 16%INDIANAPOLIS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $10k → 16%INDIANAPOLIS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $10k → 16%UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA: $39k → 16%UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA: $35k → 16%THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA: $20k → 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.
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$674k · 9 repeat orgs$309k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -52% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$674k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-52%

Still filing today

89%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • MU
    Marian University
    2× · 2019–2020 · $425k · revenue +42%
  • IZ
    Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +15%
  • Indiana University Foundation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • SL
    ST LUKES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • CE
    CARMEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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
University of Indianapolis

The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.

Education
2
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
3
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
5
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
6
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
7
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
8
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
9
Indiana Institute of Technology Inc

Indiana tech is a private, independent, and non-denominational university. students are prepared for active participation in the complex, global society of the 21st century and are motivated toward a life of significance and worth. about…

Education
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
12
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

To provide our students with the world's best undergraduate education in engineering, mathematics, and science in an environment of individual attention and support.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mind Trust Inc; the most unlike its peers is Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Central Indiana. 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

9 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. 9 of the 14 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Marian University: $425,000 · EducationMarian UniversityIndiana University Foundation: $25,000 · EducationTindley Accelerated Schools Inc: $22,000 · Education+3 more: $25,500 · EducationINDIANA CENTER FOR BUSINESS ETHICS INC: $300,000 · OtherINDIANA CENTER FOR BUSINESS ETHICS INCAMERICAN RED CROSS: $37,500 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA: $15,000 · Other+3 more: $8,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $94,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc: $30,000 · Animals
Education$497,500Other$360,500Philanthropy$94,000Animals$30,000

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 budgetMarian University: $425,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $94,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTindley Accelerated Schools Inc: $22,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIND TRUST INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA: $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER OMAHA ALLIANCE FOR BUSINESS ETHICS: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Lumina Foundation for…Lilly Endowment IncFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Lumina Foundation for Education IncIN15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Walker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 14 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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