Arkansas · Private foundation
Walter O Caldwell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $633k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $160,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 50
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Walter O Caldwell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 33 | $633k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $286k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $967k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $566k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $767k | 2% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $284k | 4% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $240k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Arkansas Foundation Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Arkansas Colleges of Health Education | $140,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Community Services Clearinghouse | $110,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Good Samaritan Clinic | $105,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Fort Smith Symphony Association | $98,500 | 7 | 8% |
| Fort Smith Museum of History | $93,500 | 7 | 19% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkoma Inc | $64,600 | 3 | 1% |
| The Call | $63,900 | 7 | 1% |
| Christmas Honors | $59,500 | 7 | 32% |
| Fort Kids | $55,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Walter O Caldwell Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Elizabeth H & Stanley E Evans Charitable Foundation · Alline B & Chloe C Davis Charitable Foundation · Rosalie Tilles Childrens Home Inc · The Degen Foundation · United Way of Fort Smith Area Inc · The Griffin Charitable Organization · Cadence Bank Foundation · Maurras Family Charitable Trust · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Walter O Caldwell Foundation
- How much does Walter O Caldwell Foundation give?
- Walter O Caldwell Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $633,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 50 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Walter O Caldwell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Education (21%), Health (10%).
- Who are Walter O Caldwell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: University of Arkansas Foundation Inc ($500k), Arkansas Colleges of Health Education ($140k), Community Services Clearinghouse ($111k).
- Does Walter O Caldwell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Walter O Caldwell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Walter O Caldwell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation, Arvest Foundation, Arkansas Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Walter O Caldwell Foundation based?
- Walter O Caldwell Foundation is based in AR.
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