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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $290k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALINE COUNTY SHERIFF PATROL | $40,000 |
| TEEN TOWN INC | $34,800 |
| SALINA EMERGENCY AID - FOOD BANK | $31,500 |
| PREGNANCY SERVICE CENTER INC | $29,040 |
| ST JOHNS MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH | $21,520 |
| ASHBY HOUSE LTD | $18,040 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SALINA INC | $14,640 |
| NEW HEIGHTS THERAPY CENTER | $14,000 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION | $13,200 |
| CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC | $13,200 |
| SALINA HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,020 |
| SACRED HEART | $10,000 |
| BLESSED HOPE FAMILY INC | $10,000 |
| SALINA GRACE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KANSAS DENTAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TTTEEN TOWN INC5× · 2021–2025 · $166k · revenue +31%
- PSPREGNANCY SERVICE CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $139k · revenue +14%
- CCCatholic Charities of Northern Kansas Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $69k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- NHNEW HEIGHTS THERAPY CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue -12%
- CPCOLONIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.
Biblical counseling
To promote and improve the quality of life by providing integrated healthcare services to the entire community in the name and spirit of Christ
Shepherd's heart is a biblically centered, clinically informed counseling ministry that offers comfort, hope, and healing to those struggling with spiritual, relational, emotional, or mental health issues.
To offer counseling services
Hannahs Home is a Christ-centered life-affirming maternity home for women who are in crisis.
Provide pastoral counseling
Provide safe housing and training to women who were victims of addiction,sex trafficking, abuse, homelesness or previously incarcerated.
The mission of salem pastoral counseling center is to be a ministry informed by the christian tradition and dedicated to counseling, consulting, and educating. these services are provided by qualified professional and licensed counselors…
House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…
Saint Joseph Home Health Care seeks to serve the poor, elderly, and disabled in a way that pleases God and honors the dignity of each person.
The mission of hope house is to prevent abuse and provide support to victims of domestic and sexual violence. our service area includes sauk, columbia, juneau, marquette, and adams counties.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salina Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is St John's Missionary Baptist Church. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 34 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TEEN TOWN INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ASHBY HOUSE LTD ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Northern Kansas Inc ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone Classical School Inc ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER ADULT DAY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AT STAKE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMING TOGETHER FOR A CURE INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSED HOPE FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA GRACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS DENTAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Great Plains Christioan Radio Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUL BLOOM PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HEIGHTS THERAPY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY AND PARENTING SERVICE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Salina Community Foundation · Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc · Salina Regional Health Foundation · Smoot Charitable Foundation · Earl Bane Foundation · Horejsi Charitable Foundation Inc · Salina Area United Way Inc · McCune & Middlekauff Foundation · Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation · Zimmerman Family Foundation · Milton I and Frances L Stiefel Foundation · Marshall Family Foundation Inc
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Walker Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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