Washington · Private foundation
Walker 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.
- $565k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $127,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Walker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $565k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $461k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $446k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $461k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $357k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $369k | 76% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $160k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $26k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Domestic Violence Services of Snohomish | $625,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Orkeeswa Inc | $599,500 | 7 | 8% |
| Cascadia Art Museum | $573,550 | 9 | 14% |
| Tucson Centers for Women & Children Inc Dba Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse | $171,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Ranken Technical College | $138,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Meds & Food for Kids | $87,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Beyond Housing Inc | $36,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Peter Michael Foundation | $31,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Museum of Glass | $24,400 | 4 | 0% |
| All Saints' Episcopal Church | $21,000 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($551k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Walker Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 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
How this is measured
About Walker Foundation
- How much does Walker Foundation give?
- Walker Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $564,575 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Walker Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (45%), Arts & Culture (25%), Health (15%).
- Who are Walker Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Domestic Violence Services of Snohomish ($625k), Orkeeswa Inc ($600k), Cascadia Art Museum ($574k).
- Does Walker Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Walker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Walker Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Norcliffe Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
- Where is Walker Foundation based?
- Walker Foundation is based in WA.
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