· Public charity
Walking for Kids Foundation
To help children with life threatening illnesses through charitable activities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $115,275 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $256,764 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $141,489 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $96k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VALDOSTA MIRACLE LEAGUE | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,900 |
| FIRST TEE | $20,000 |
| SCRA | $10,000 |
| OUTREACH | $8,375 |
| MISSIONSCAPE | $6,000 |
| RAISING HOPE FOR OTHERS | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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 +71% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- MLMIRACLE LEAGUE OF VALDOSTA GEORGIA6× · 2019–2024 · $175k · revenue +165% · 26% of their budget
- GFGOLF FORE FUN INC6× · 2018–2024 · $122k · revenue +71%
- YLYOUNG LIFE4× · 2019–2023 · $29k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -15%
- MHMADONNA HOUSE INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +3%
- MOMedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassistone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -28%
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.
We, in partnership with our community, provide a comfortable and caring home away from home that supports keeping families together and reduces stress during a child's serious illness.
The Miracle League of San Diego provides children and adults with special needs the opportunity to play baseball in an organized league and strives to be recognized throughout San Diego County as a high-quality safe and inclusive…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte (RMHC of GC) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. Charlotte is recognized as a leading destination…
Camp For All transforms the world for children and adults with challenging illnesses, disabilities, or special needs.
Camp rise above provides life-changing camp programs for children and adults with serious illnesses, disabilities, and life challenges.
Provide opportunities for children & young adults with disabilities to play miracle league baseball, regardless of their abilities, promote community support and sponsorship of a miracle league and promote the construction of special…
The Miracle League of Arizona is a non-profit organization in North Scottsdale, dedicated to providing a safe, successful, and enjoyable baseball experience for children, teens, and adults with disabilities or special health care needs. We…
Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.
It is the mission of the ronald mcdonald house charities of the carolinas, inc. to provide for the physical and emotional well being of children and their families.
Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.
The Arc of North Carolina is committed to securing for all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities the opportunity to choose and realize their goals of where and how they learn, live, work, and play.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Idaho supports families of ill or injured children by keeping them together in times of medical need. Families are the center of our purpose and we provide them with a safe and secure place for healing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Children's Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope Included. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 12 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.
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.
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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 Walking for Kids 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.
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