· Private foundation
Walker Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $121k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $310k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY | $100,000 |
| INDIGENOUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TANZANIA | $100,000 |
| EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE | $60,000 |
| MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY WALKER CLINIC | $50,000 |
| MEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS | $32,000 |
| RANKEN TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| CASCADIA ART MUSEUM | $24,000 |
| MUSEUM OF GLASS | $15,250 |
| SUPPORT 7 | $15,000 |
| BEYOND HOUSING INC | $10,000 |
| ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $8,000 |
| ST HILDA ST PARTICK CHURCH | $6,350 |
| LIFE ENRICHMENT OPTIONS (LEO) | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| SNO-ISLE LIBRARIES FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 37% 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, 47% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 27% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- DVDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH5× · 2020–2024 · $505k · revenue +45%
- CACASCADIA ART MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $497k · revenue +380%
- RTRanken Technical College5× · 2017–2024 · $113k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- IEINDIGENOUS EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $35k
- AEAFTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k
- FHFLOWER HILL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k
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 museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
The tucson museum of art and historic block connects art to life through meaningful and engaging experiences that inspire discovery, spark creativity, and promote cultural understanding.
Bainbridge island museum of art (bima) inspires curiosity, wonder and understanding by connecting people with the contemporary art and craft of the puget sound region.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Maryhill Museum of Art ignites a journey of educational enrichment in the Columbia River Gorge by preserving and interpreting art and historic collections.
To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.
Tacoma Art Museum transforms our communities by sharing art that inspires broader perspectives and cultivates a compassionate future
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The Museo De Las Americas is dedicated to educating our community through collecting preserving interpreting and exhibiting the diverse arts and cultures of the Americas from ancient to contemporary through innovative exhibitions and…
To create visual arts experiences that engage people and inspire learning through exceptional exhibitions, collections, and educational opportunities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interlochen Center for the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Flower Hill Foundation Austin Texas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 39 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 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH ↗
- Who funds CASCADIA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ORKEESWA INC ↗
- Who funds Ranken Technical College ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE ↗
- Who funds MEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds PETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Glass ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT 7 ↗
- Who funds SNO-ISLE LIBRARIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
- Who funds PREDATORS OF THE HEART DBA BECAUSE WE MATTER EXOTIC ANIMAL RES ↗
- Who funds The Amerind Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Flower Hill Foundation Austin Texas ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SABINO CANYON INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING ↗
- Who funds TUCSON DESERT ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
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 Norcliffe Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 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.
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.