· Private foundation
Walker Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k22 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $875k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $189k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ducks Unlimited | $100,000 |
| Midtown Public Charter School | $89,402 |
| Mississippi Museum of Art | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| The Foundation for Mississippi History | $35,000 |
| The McCallie Public Charter | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Hillcrest Christian School | $30,000 |
| Young Life - Capernaum | $25,000 |
| Prager University Foundation | $25,000 |
| Mississippi Children's Museum | $25,000 |
| WEW Foundation | $25,000 |
| Soldier Fund | $25,000 |
| Young Life - Jackson | $25,000 |
| KSW Foundation | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $554k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 92% of Walker Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in MS; by stated purpose, 8%.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
77 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 35 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $442k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MPMIDTOWN PARTNERS INC5× · 2017–2023 · $392k · revenue +119%
- MFMSW FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $325k · revenue +74% · 74% of their budget
- YLYOUNG LIFE8× · 2017–2024 · $296k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $25k
- TGThe Good Samaritanone grant, 2021 · $25k
- HFHope for Justice Incone grant, 2021 · $20k · 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.
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 foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…
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.
Moral compass federation facilitates collaboration among multiple veteran-led nonprofit organizations, individuals, and businesses who came together during the fall of kabul, afghanistan to evacuate and resettle afghan allies who were in…
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
Jmg's mission is to keep young people in school through graduation and provide work-based learning experiences that will lead to career advancement opportunities or to enroll in a postsecondary institution that leads to a rewarding career.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Deep south today is a nonprofit network of local newsrooms comprising mississippi today and verite news. with its regional scale and scope, deep south today is providing critical journalism in underserved areas and ensuring its long-term…
Seeking to build relationships with diverse institutions around the state to build the power to effect political change in a non-partisan way while strengthening the institutions we engage with to help execute their institution's mission…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
How this is measured
109 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. 109 of the 192 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 MIDTOWN PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds MSW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds WEW Foundation ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Millsaps College ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE REDEEMERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANDREW JACKSON COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERSON MUSIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds REFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BUT GOD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds EXCEL BY 5 INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MISSION FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARION COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Ergon Foundation Inc · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Feild Co-Operative Association · Phil Hardin Foundation · T H Etheridge Trust · Sam E & Burnice C Wittel Foundation · Howard & Mary Eliza McMillan Foundation · C Spire Foundation · Kathryn & Julian Wiener Fund · Hf McCarty Jr Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Walker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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