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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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
- $250k+1 grant · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORTLAND PARKS FOUNDATION | $260,000 |
| FORESTS FOREVER INCORPORATED | $65,000 |
| FREINDS OF THE CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| MINDS MATTER OF PORTLAND | $30,000 |
| CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY | $30,000 |
| OREGON TECH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| OSU FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DE LA SALLE NORTH HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| ST ANDREW NATIVITY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| FIRE | $10,000 |
| LIBBY'S HOPE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LIDE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PROJECT LEMONADE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY18–19, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +27% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 5 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN9× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +277%
- TFTHE FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY9× · 2017–2025 · $237k · revenue +78%
- FFFORESTS FOREVER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +59% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
COLUMBIA LAND TRUSTone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%- FOFriends of Tryon Creekone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +14%
WALLOWA LAND TRUSTone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -82%
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.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The university of portland, an independently governed catholic university guided by the congregation of holy cross, addresses significant questions of human concern through interdisciplinary studies of the arts, sciences, and humanities…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Home Share Oregon. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 62 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 PORTLAND PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FORESTS FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF PORTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds OREGON TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Tryon Creek ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEMONADE INC ↗
- Who funds HETERODOX ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WALLOWA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds LIBBYS HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds WORLD FORESTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOIN ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LIDE HAITI ↗
- Who funds Home Share Oregon ↗
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: 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
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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Friends of Trees — 100% of income from government
- Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
- Oregon Historical Society — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Forests Forever Inc — 7% of income from government
- Join — 4% of income from government
- Wallowa Land Trust — 3% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Casa for Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- All Classical Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
- World Forestry Center — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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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