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Walters Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$329kHuman Services$320kYouth Development$153kHealth$144kArts & Culture$134kHousing & Shelter$71kCrime & Legal$65kReligion$56kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISS OREGON SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM$30,000
KATHYS PLACE$15,000
PORTLAND RESCUE MISSION$15,000
SMART READING$15,000
HOSEA YOUTH SERVICES$10,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF EUGENE$10,000
EVERY CHILD LANE COUNTY$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $248k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $10k → 8%Wilderness Trails Inc: $5k → 13%CHETCO ACTIVITY CENTER INC: $9k → 14%HOSEA YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 15%Wilderness Trails Inc: $5k → 13%WILDERNESS TRAILS: $5k → 13%BLOOMIN BOUTIQUE: $10k → 8%OREGON HARBOR OF HOPE: $8k → 12%WITH LOVE OREGON: $60k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $5k → 8%WITH LOVE OREGON: $5k → 8%EVERY CHILD LANE COUNTY: $10k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF EUGENE: $10k → 15%Homeplate Youth Services: $10k → 8%Adventure without limits: $10k → 8%KATHYS PLACE: $15k → 12%KATHYS PLACE: $15k → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $10k → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $5k → 12%Raphael House: $5k → 12%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS: $5k → 12%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS: $11k → 12%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$738k · 24 repeat orgs$614k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
40

Total granted

$738k
$554k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+11%

Still filing today

71%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther

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

  • WITH LOVE OREGON INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $65k · revenue +122%
  • OP
    OPHELIA'S PLACE
    5× · 2017–2022 · $58k · revenue +167%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR COMMUNITY COUNSELING
    3× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE COQUILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2024 · $119k
  • VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL HEALTH CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $60k · revenue +10%
  • BL
    BIG LAKE YOUTH CAMP
    one grant, 2021 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Oregon Child Abuse Solutions

To ensure children and youth in oregon have access to high quality, comprehensive services and resources to address child abuse.

Crime & Legal
2
A Family for Every Child

A family for every child (affec) is dedicated to finding permanent and loving adoptive families for waiting foster children. to accomplish our mission, we focus on finding loving and permanent families for children who the foster care…

Human Services
3
Youth Empowerment Shelter

To provide youth in crisis a place of physical and emotional safety while assisting them to build positive relationships and develop their individual potentials.

Youth Development
4
Transitions

Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.

Human Services
5
Thrive Central Oregon

To connect individuals to the housing and community resources they seek.

Human Services
6
Family Promise of Tualatin Valley

To provide families and individuals experiencing homelessness temporary emergency shelter with intensive case management support while they work toward the goal of safe, stable and affordable housing.

Human Services
7
Impact Nw

Impact nw prevents homelessness by supporting people as they navigate their journey to stability and strength. founded in portland in 1966, impact nw now serves 26,944 people a year in the greater portland, oregon metro area, including…

Human Services
8
Hearts With a Mission

To serve homeless and at-risk youth by providing shelter, education, mentoring and transition planning, and elder companion care all with a faith-based approach in jackson, josephine, douglas, coos, lincoln, and klamath counties, oregon.

Human Services
9
Beyond These Walls

Beyond These Walls supports LGBTQ people impacted by incarceration in Oregon by providing direct service housing and advocacy.

Civil Rights
10
Trillium Family Services

Building brighter futures with children and families.

Housing & Shelter
11
Oregon Casa Network

To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child

Human Services
12
Carry It Forward

The name "Carry It Forward" is meant to highlight the mutual benefits ofdirect service to our unhoused neighbors. Our work is designed to reducesuffering by meeting basic human needs while developing a sustainable modelfor incorporating…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers and the most unlike its peers is Wheel to Walk Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr12%23%35–55yr15%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr15%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/54
the rest of the field
12%
1,539/12,830

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 68 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
33/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE COQUILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY — $118,830 · OtherTHE COQUILLE PUBLIC LIBRARYFriends of Cornelius Public Library — $75,000 · OtherFriends of Cornelius Public LibraryTHE SPARROW CLUB — $67,357 · OtherTHE SPARROW CLUBCENTER FOR COMMUNITY COUNSELING — $55,000 · OtherCENTER FOR COMMUNITY COUNSELINGBIG LAKE YOUTH CAMP — $50,000 · OtherBIG LAKE YOUTH CAMPPORTLAND RESCUE MISSION — $45,000 · OtherPORTLAND RESCUE MISSIONMISS OREGON SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM — $30,000 · Other+27 more — $254,726 · Other+27 moreWITH LOVE OREGON INC — $65,000 · Human ServicesWITH LOVE OREGON INCKathys Place — $30,000 · Human ServicesKathys PlaceFINANCIAL BEGINNINGS — $26,000 · Human ServicesFINANCIAL BEGINNINGSRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND — $20,300 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORT…WILDERNESS TRAILS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesWILDERNESS TRAILS INCBLOOMIN BOUTIQUE — $10,000 · Human ServicesEVERY CHILD LANE COUNTY — $10,000 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF EUGENE — $10,000 · Human ServicesHosea Youth Services — $10,000 · Human ServicesHOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES — $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCARE PARTNERS — $10,000 · Human ServicesADVENTURES WITHOUT LIMITS — $10,000 · Human ServicesCHETCO ACTIVITY CENTER INC — $9,000 · Human Services+2 more — $12,500 · Human ServicesVIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL HEALTH CENTER — $60,000 · HealthVIRGINIA GAR…HELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS — $20,000 · HealthHELPING HAND…CHELSEA HICKS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthCHELSEA HICK…KINSHIP HOUSE — $15,000 · HealthKINSHIP HOUS…Inspire Life Skills Training Inc — $15,000 · HealthInspire Life…WHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthWHEEL TO WAL…PREGNANCY CARE SERVICES INC — $10,000 · HealthPREGNANCY CA…OPHELIA'S PLACE — $57,500 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentMAURICE LUCAS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentWorking Theory Farm — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSMART READING — $49,500 · EducationCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL — $4,000 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $41,500 · Arts & CultureGolden Road Arts — $10,000 · Arts & CultureChildrens Center — $30,000 · Crime & LegalFAMILY PEACE CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY — $15,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$695,913Human Services$257,800Health$150,000Youth Development$97,500Education$54,500Arts & Culture$51,500Crime & Legal$45,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWITH LOVE OREGON INC — $65,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetVIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL HEALTH CENTER — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPHELIA'S PLACE — $57,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY COUNSELING — $55,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetSMART READING — $49,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $41,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMISS OREGON SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM — $30,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetKathys Place — $30,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetChildrens Center — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFINANCIAL BEGINNINGS — $26,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND — $20,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHELSEA HICKS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTUCKER MAXON SCHOOL — $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKINSHIP HOUSE — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHome Share Oregon — $15,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetThe Bloom Project — $15,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetFAMILY PEACE CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY — $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetClatsop Community Action — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFINANCIAL BEGINNINGS OREGON — $15,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetWILDERNESS TRAILS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetInspire Life Skills Training Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetInland Temporary Homes — $13,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY — $10,103 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOMIN BOUTIQUE — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetEVERY CHILD LANE COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF EUGENE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE DOUGY CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAURICE LUCAS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHosea Youth Services — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGolden Road Arts — $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorking Theory Farm — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCARE PARTNERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPREGNANCY CARE SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetPILE OF PUPPIES — $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCHETCO ACTIVITY CENTER INC — $9,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetOREGON TRAIL OF HOPE — $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOMELESS CONNECT WASHINGTON COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPARROW CLUBS USA — $4,060 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL — $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMACDONALD CENTER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTherapyWorks NW — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

The Oregon Community …Marie Lamfrom Charita…The Autzen FoundationJuan Young TrustOCF Joseph E Weston P…The Robert D and Marc…The Jackson FoundationThe Harold & Arlene S…Hoover Family Foundat…Braemar Charitable Tr…The Reser Family Foun…The Holzman Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR58.8× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Hoover Family Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · The Holzman Foundation

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 Walters 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Family Peace Center of Washington County — 49% of income from government
  • Adventures Without Limits — 39% of income from government
  • Clackamas Women's Services — 33% of income from government
  • Clatsop Community Action — 26% of income from government
  • Ophelia's Place — 22% of income from government
  • Working Theory Farm — 19% of income from government
  • Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers — 18% of income from government
  • Homeplate Youth Services — 17% of income from government
  • With Love Oregon Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center — 11% of income from government
  • Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
  • Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
  • Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
  • The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Golden Road Arts — 1% of income from government
  • Financial Beginnings — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
  • Childrens Center — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Walters Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Walters 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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