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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 FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PIKES PEAK HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC$100,000
CROSSLINES CHURCHES OF THE JOPLIN AREA INC$50,000
OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC$50,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$33,333
GUIDESTONE FIN RESOURCES OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION$33,333
WATERED GARDENS$33,333
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $542k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PETERSON OUTDOORS MINISTRIES: $75k → 18%WATERED GARDENS: $75k → 18%SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $65k → 9%CROSSLINES CHURCHES OF THE JOPLIN AREA INC: $50k → 18%WATERED GARDENS: $50k → 18%WATERED GARDENS: $50k → 18%WATERED GARDENS: $33k → 18%WATERED GARDENS: $33k → 18%CROSSLINES CHURCHES OF THE JOPLIN AREA INC: $33k → 18%WATERED GARDENS: $33k → 18%SILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES: $44k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
PA
UT
CO
NE
MO
TN
NC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 15 repeat orgs$862k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
17

Total granted

$1.9M
$812k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+51%

Still filing today

73%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsReligionAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WG
    WATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSION
    6× · 2019–2025 · $275k · revenue +299%
  • PP
    PIKES PEAK HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $242k · revenue +53%
  • PH
    Project Helping
    4× · 2018–2021 · $133k · revenue +885%

Funded once

  • EO
    ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADOgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $96k · revenue +258%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $96k
  • PO
    PETERSON OUTDOORS MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Hospice of Metro Denver Inc

To encircle those facing advanced illness with unprecedented levels of comfort, compassion, and expertise.

Human Services
2
Pathways Hospice

Honoring every moment of life, pathways hospice provides compassionate, excellent, comprehensive care for those who have an advanced medical condition and those who are grieving.

Human Services
3
Summit Community Care Clinic Inc

Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
4
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
5
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
6
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
7
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
8
Caromont Health

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
9
Good Samaritan Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

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10
Carson Tahoe Regional Healthcare

To enhance the health and well-being of the communities we serve.

Health
11
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
12
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PIKES PEAK HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC: $241,666 · OtherPIKES PEAK HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INCGUIDESTONE FIN RESOURCES OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION: $143,749 · OtherGUIDESTONE FIN RESOURCES OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVEN…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $143,749 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECTCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $101,250 · OtherCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORKFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $96,250 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATIONMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $93,333 · OtherMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATIONAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOC CHARITIES INC: $77,083 · OtherAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOC CHARITIES INCCROSSLINES MINISTRIES JOPLIN: $75,000 · OtherCROSSLINES MINISTRIES JOPLINCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $70,000 · OtherPIKES PEAK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $66,666 · Other+7 more: $237,500 · Other+7 moreWATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSION: $274,999 · Human ServicesWATERED GARDENS RESCUE…CROSSLINES CHURCHES OF THE JOPLIN AREA: $83,333 · Human ServicesCROSSLINES CHURCHES OF…PETERSON OUTDOORS MINISTRIES: $75,000 · Human ServicesPETERSON OUTDOORS MINI…THE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $65,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MIS…SILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $43,750 · Human ServicesSILVER KEY SENIOR SERV…Project Helping: $133,333 · HealthProject HelpingFREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM: $128,334 · HealthFREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEMALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $110,416 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATIO…MAYO CLINIC: $40,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICGBSCIDP FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC: $35,000 · HealthGBSCIDP FOUNDATION IN…Children's Hospital Colorado: $33,333 · HealthChildren's Hospital C…PEAK VISTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $31,250 · HealthPEAK VISTA COMMUNITY …GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $110,416 · PhilanthropyGoodwill of Colorado Foundation: $33,333 · PhilanthropyENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO: $96,250 · Recreation & SportsSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $65,000 · ReligionOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $50,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,346,246Human Services$542,082Health$511,666Philanthropy$143,749Recreation & Sports$96,250Religion$65,000Food & Nutrition$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetMAYO CLINIC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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 FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Community Foundation …Jean Jack and Mildred…Colorado Springs Heal…The Joseph Henry Edmo…Pikes Peak Community …Commerce Bancshares F…El Pomar FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…The Blackbaud Giving …Natl Christian Charit…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Walter N & Alberta H Drake Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter N & Alberta H Drake Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Walter N & Alberta H Drake Foundation?

    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.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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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