· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ST ANDREW NATIVITY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| DE LA SALLE NORTH HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| PROJECT LEMONADE | $10,000 |
| LIBBY'S HOPE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LIDE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FIRE | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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 Creekgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +28%
WALLOWA LAND TRUSTone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -82%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds LIBBYS HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD FORESTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOIN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Home Share Oregon ↗
- Who funds LIDE HAITI ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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