Kansas · Private foundation
Walker Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $292k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2026
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $34,800
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 27
- FY2021 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 2
- Total assets, FY2026
- $273k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 26% of the organizations Walker Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 25 | $292k | 0% |
| FY2025 | 27 | $343k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $295k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $302k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $221k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $176k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teen Town Inc | $200,700 | 6 | 2% |
| Pregnancy Service Center Inc | $167,640 | 6 | 6% |
| Salina Emergency Aidfood Bank Inc | $147,000 | 6 | 4% |
| St John's Missionary Baptist Church | $138,820 | 6 | n/a |
| Ashby House Ltd | $131,440 | 6 | 11% |
| Catholic Charities of Northern Kansas Inc | $84,090 | 6 | 1% |
| Domestic Violence Association of Central Kansas Inc | $76,200 | 6 | 1% |
| Cornerstone Classical School Inc | $76,200 | 6 | 2% |
| Salina Health Education Foundation | $57,870 | 6 | 0% |
| Healing House Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($130k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Walker Family 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Walker Family Foundation
- How much does Walker Family Foundation give?
- Walker Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $292,040 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 27 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
- What does Walker Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Religion (15%), Health (14%).
- Who are Walker Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Teen Town Inc ($201k), Pregnancy Service Center Inc ($168k), Salina Emergency Aidfood Bank Inc ($147k).
- Does Walker Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Walker Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Walker Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Salina Community Foundation, Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc, Salina Regional Health Foundation.
- Where is Walker Family Foundation based?
- Walker Family Foundation is based in KS.
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