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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 FY2026still arriving
25
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$301kReligion$200kHealth$181kYouth Development$166kPhilanthropy$139kFood & Nutrition$116kHousing & Shelter$69kEducation$63kOther$0
02FY2026 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k11 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $240k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$273k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BLESSED HOPE FAMILY INC$10,000
KANSAS DENTAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$10,000
HEALING HOUSE INC$10,000
SALINA GRACE FOUNDATION$10,000
SALINA RESCUE MISSION INC$8,040
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $166k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HEALING HOUSE INC: $10k → 15%HEALING HOUSE INC: $10k → 15%HEALING HOUSE INC: $10k → 15%HEALING HOUSE INC: $10k → 15%HEALING HOUSE INC: $10k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION: $13k → 13%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION: $13k → 13%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION: $13k → 13%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION: $13k → 13%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION: $12k → 13%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION: $12k → 13%BLESSED HOPE FAMILY INC: $10k → 13%BLESSED HOPE FAMILY INC: $10k → 13%BLESSED HOPE FAMILY INC: $10k → 13%BLESSED HOPE FAMILY INC: $10k → 13%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 30 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2026, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
4

Total granted

$1.6M
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
-12%

Still filing today

60%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TT
    TEEN TOWN INC
    6× · 2021–2026 · $201k · revenue +31%
  • PS
    PREGNANCY SERVICE CENTER INC
    6× · 2021–2026 · $168k · revenue +14%
  • CC
    Catholic Charities of Northern Kansas Inc
    6× · 2021–2026 · $84k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • SC
    SALINE COUNTY SHERIFF PATROL
    one grant, 2025 · $40k
  • SH
    SACRED HEART
    one grant, 2025 · $10k
  • NH
    NEW HEIGHTS THERAPY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue -12%
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
Safehouse Crisis Center Inc

To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.

Human Services
2
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

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3
Health Ministries Clinic Inc

To promote and improve the quality of life by providing integrated healthcare services to the entire community in the name and spirit of Christ

Religion
4
Samaritan Counseling Centers Inc

To offer counseling services

Human Services
5
Samaritan Counseling Center

Provide pastoral counseling

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6
Shepherd's Heart Inc

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.

Health
7
Hannahs Home

Hannahs Home is a Christ-centered life-affirming maternity home for women who are in crisis.

Human Services
8
His Helping Hands Ministries

Provide safe housing and training to women who were victims of addiction,sex trafficking, abuse, homelesness or previously incarcerated.

Religion
9
Salem Pastoral Counseling Center

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…

Human Services
10
Saint Joseph Home Health Care

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.

Health
11
Hope House of South Central Wisconsin Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Freedom House Ministries

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salina Rescue Mission Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC: $147,000 · OtherSALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INCST JOHN'S MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH: $138,820 · OtherST JOHN'S MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCHCatholic Charities of Northern Kansas Inc: $84,090 · OtherCatholic Charities of Northern Kansas IncSALINE COUNTY SHERIFF PATROL: $40,000 · OtherSALINE COUNTY SHERIFF PATROLNEW HEIGHTS THERAPY CENTER: $28,000 · OtherBIRTHRIGHT OF SALINA INC: $22,860 · OtherAT STAKE MINISTRIES INC: $41,910 · OtherAT STAKE MINISTRIES INCGreat Plains Christioan Radio Inc: $23,580 · Other+12 more: $99,330 · Other+12 moreASHBY HOUSE LTD: $131,440 · Housing & ShelterASHBY HOUSE LTDSALINA RESCUE MISSION INC: $46,440 · Housing & ShelterSALINA RESCUE M…SALINA GRACE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterSALINA GRACE FO…TEEN TOWN INC: $200,700 · Youth DevelopmentTEEN TOWN INCPREGNANCY SERVICE CENTER INC: $167,640 · PhilanthropyPREGNANCY S…DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC: $76,200 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VI…HEALING HOUSE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesHEALING HOU…BLESSED HOPE FAMILY INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesBLESSED HOP…Cornerstone Classical School Inc: $76,200 · EducationCornersto…SALINA HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $57,870 · EducationSALINA HE…SUNFLOWER ADULT DAY SERVICES INC: $41,910 · HealthCOMING TOGETHER FOR A CURE INC: $37,550 · HealthKANSAS DENTAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthNEW HEIGHTS THERAPY CENTER INC: $7,000 · Health
Other$625,590Housing & Shelter$217,880Youth Development$200,700Philanthropy$167,640Human Services$166,200Education$134,070Health$116,460

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEEN TOWN INC: $200,700 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetPREGNANCY SERVICE CENTER INC: $167,640 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetSALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC: $147,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetASHBY HOUSE LTD: $131,440 over 6y, 11% of budgetCatholic Charities of Northern Kansas Inc: $84,090 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC: $76,200 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCornerstone Classical School Inc: $76,200 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetSALINA HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $57,870 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING HOUSE INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSALINA RESCUE MISSION INC: $46,440 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAT STAKE MINISTRIES INC: $41,910 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetSUNFLOWER ADULT DAY SERVICES INC: $41,910 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSALINA GRACE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetBLESSED HOPE FAMILY INC: $40,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetCOMING TOGETHER FOR A CURE INC: $37,550 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetKANSAS DENTAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetGreat Plains Christioan Radio Inc: $23,580 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS THERAPY CENTER INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

  • 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 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Cornerstone Classical School Inc ↗
  • Who funds SALINA HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEALING HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds SALINA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds AT STAKE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNFLOWER ADULT DAY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds SALINA GRACE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BLESSED HOPE FAMILY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMING TOGETHER FOR A CURE INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS DENTAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Great Plains Christioan Radio Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUL BLOOM PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY AND PARENTING SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW HEIGHTS THERAPY CENTER INC ↗

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.

Greater Salina Community FoundationKS41.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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