Oregon · Private foundation
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.
- $648k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $260,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Walker Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $640k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $571k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $535k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $603k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $444k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $382k | 4% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $382k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $360k | 18% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portland Parks Foundation | $1,121,530 | 9 | 14% |
| Friends of the Children | $265,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Forest Park Conservancy | $236,525 | 9 | 6% |
| Forests Forever Inc | $220,000 | 9 | 36% |
| Oregon State University Foundation | $170,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Minds Matter of Portland Inc | $168,000 | 9 | 12% |
| Columbia Land Trust | $150,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Oregon Humane Society | $145,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cascade Policy Institute | $140,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Oregon Tech Foundation Inc | $125,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($855k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Walker Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Kohnstamm Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Walker Family Foundation
- How much does Walker Family Foundation give?
- Walker Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $647,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Walker Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Recreation & Sports (26%), Environment (19%).
- Who are Walker Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Portland Parks Foundation ($1.1M), Friends of the Children ($265k), The Forest Park Conservancy ($237k).
- Does Walker Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% 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 The Oregon Community Foundation, Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust, The Jackson Foundation.
- Where is Walker Family Foundation based?
- Walker Family Foundation is based in OR.
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