How much did Walker Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of Walker Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

baptist churchepiscopal churchandrew's episcopalamericans

2020

episcopal churchjackson

2021

jackson

2022

mccalliewildlifecharterchildren'smidtownchurchjackson

2023

mercychartermidtownjacksonchurch

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k14 grants · $61k
$10k–50k34 grants · $565k
$50k–250k4 grants · $305k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$20M

Total assets

Largest grants

Midtown Public Charter School$105,000
Ducks Unlimited$100,000
Jackson Prep Foundation$50,000
Mission First$50,000
Mississippi Museum of Art$40,000
We Will Go$25,000
The McCallie Public Charter$25,000
Young Life$25,000
KSW Foundation$25,000
MSW Foundation$25,000
Canopy Children's Solutions$25,000
WEW Foundation$25,000
Unite MS Foundation$25,000
But God Ministries$25,000
The Reedemer's School$20,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $428k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 73% of Walker Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in MS; read by stated purpose it is 26% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Walker Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.5M · 72 repeat orgs$473k to everyone else

72 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.5M

$383k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+54%

Still filing today

56%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitReligionArts & CultureOther

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

MP
Midtown Partners Inc
5× · 2017–2023 · $392k · revenue +69%
YL
Young Life
8× · 2017–2024 · $296k · revenue +26%
MC
Mississippi Center for Public Policy
7× · 2017–2023 · $218k · revenue +36%

Funded once

TG
The Good Samaritan
one grant, 2021 · $25k
BM
Baptist Medical Systems
one grant, 2018 · $25k
CF
Community Foundation of North Florida
one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -50%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

University of Mississippi Foundation

The university of mississippi foundation is a nonprofit corporation chartered in 1973 by the state of mississippi to operate primarily for the benefit of the university of mississippi. the foundation is responsible for receiving,…

Education

Methodist Foundation of Mississippi

The methodist foundation of ms resources the church for effective ministry & fruitful generosity.

Religion

Mission Mississippi

"to encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message"

Civil Rights

University of Southern Mississippi

The mission of the alumni association is to benefit the university of southern mississippi, its students, and alumni through upholding traditions, sponsoring activities, events, and publications.

Education

University of Southern Mississippi

Build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds for the benefit of usm.

Education

Mississippi State University Alumni

The msu alumni association activates and supports the bulldog family, encouraging alumni, students, and friends to grow a lifelong connection with mississippi state university and inspire their ongoing support toward each other and the…

Education

Mississippi Methodist Hospital

Mississippi methodist rehabilitation center provides comprehensive medical rehabilitation services to help people recover abilities and quality of life after a stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, neurological disease or…

Health

Memphis University School

College preparatory secondary school for boys

Education

Mississippi Community College Foundation

To promote and encourage education in mississippi public community and junior colleges.

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Innovate Mississippi

The purpose of the organization is to drive innovation and technology-based economic development for the state of Mississippi.

Science & Tech

Mississippi Professional Educators

Mastering the science and art of teaching to improve eduation in mississippi.

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Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi First Inc and the most unlike its peers is Young Life. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/74

the rest of the field

13%

1,587/12,426

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.

06the grantee network

70 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

67/70

Grantees still filing

53/70

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,494,045Education$616,730Human Services$576,500Public Benefit$518,500Health$297,250Youth Development$296,400Religion$151,000

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.

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.

Community Foundation for MississippiMS49.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Ergon Foundation Inc · Van Devender Family Foundation · Feild Co-Operative Association · Phil Hardin Foundation · Sam E & Burnice C Wittel Foundation · T H Etheridge Trust · Howard & Mary Eliza McMillan Foundation · W a Taylor Foundation · Wesley a Caldwell Foundation Inc · Mike and Janie Jarvis Family

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 organisation Walker 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WEW Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~22 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 640815750 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WEW Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 22 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 92% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Walker Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Walker Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Walker Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

70 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Walker Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Walker Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

70 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Walker Foundation?

More from the funding graph