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Walter N & Alberta H Drake 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.

$300k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$5.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Walter N & Alberta H Drake Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$300k17%
FY20249$300k22%
FY20239$300k22%
FY20228$350k88%
FY20216$210k0%
FY20207$250k43%
FY20195$250k60%
FY20186$245k83%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.1MHuman Services$799kFood & Nutrition$325kInternational$209kRecreation & Sports$96kHousing & Shelter$67kAnimals$35kMembership Benefit$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
PA
UT
CO
NE
MO
TN
NC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($677k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Walter N & Alberta H Drake Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWatered Gardens Rescue Mission: $274,999 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetPikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care Inc: $241,666 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetProject Helping: $133,333 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetFreeman Health System: $128,334 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Foundation of America Inc: $110,416 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $110,416 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Miracle Network: $101,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEnergy Outreach Colorado: $96,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMercy Health Foundation: $93,333 over 3y, 11% of budgetCrosslines Churches of the Joplin Area: $83,333 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPeterson Outdoors Ministries: $75,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCommunity Clinic of Southwest Missouri: $70,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetPikes Peak Habitat for Humanity: $66,666 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Springs Rescue Mission: $65,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOzarks Food Harvest Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSilver Key Senior Services Inc: $43,750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCheyenne Mountain Zoological Society: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGbscidp Foundation International Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGoodwill of Colorado Foundation: $33,333 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado: $33,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeak Vista Community Health Centers: $31,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Arvest FoundationAR17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arvest Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Jean Jack and Mildred Lemons Charitable Trust · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Walter N & Alberta H Drake Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Walter N & Alberta H Drake Foundation

How much does Walter N & Alberta H Drake Foundation give?
Walter N & Alberta H Drake Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $299,999 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Walter N & Alberta H Drake Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (40%), Human Services (29%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
Who are Walter N & Alberta H Drake Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Watered Gardens Rescue Mission ($275k), Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care Inc ($242k), Project Helping ($133k).
Does Walter N & Alberta H Drake Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Walter N & Alberta H Drake 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 Walter N & Alberta H Drake Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arvest Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc.
Where is Walter N & Alberta H Drake Foundation based?
Walter N & Alberta H Drake Foundation is based in MO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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