California · Private foundation
Walther 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.
- $435k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $269k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Walther 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; $5k 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 | 15 | $410k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $445k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $480k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $506k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $466k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $512k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $518k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $374k | 23% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kipp Bay Area Schools | $370,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Aim High | $285,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Schools Mentoring and Resources Team Inc (Smart) | $275,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Reading Partners | $255,000 | 9 | 0% |
| 826 Valencia | $255,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Life Learning Academy | $240,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Juma Ventures Inc | $215,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Outward Bound California | $200,000 | 7 | 1% |
| One Purpose School Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Year Up Inc | $185,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kipp Bay Area Schools | $370,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Aim High | $285,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Schools Mentoring and Resources Team Inc (Smart) | $275,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Reading Partners | $255,000 | 9 | 0% |
| 826 Valencia | $255,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Life Learning Academy | $240,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Juma Ventures Inc | $215,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Outward Bound California | $200,000 | 7 | 1% |
| One Purpose School Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Year Up Inc | $185,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Mindful Life Project | $150,000 | 5 | 1% |
| First Graduate | $100,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Jumpstart for Young Children Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Peer Health Exchange Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| BLUE BEAR SCHOOL of MUSIC | $62,500 | 8 | 1% |
| The Westminster School Foundation | $40,000 | 4 | 6% |
| The Epiphany School Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| More Than Words Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| On the Move | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Education Fund | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Beyond Differences | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Seneca Family of Agencies | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Veterans Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| San Francisco Symphony | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Project Wreckless | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| San Francisco Parks Alliance | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($942k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Walther Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Robert and Dana Emery Family Foundation Rockefeller Trust Company · Golden State Community Foundation · Quest Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The James Irvine Foundation · Lisa Stone Pritzker Family Fund · Wendell Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Walther Foundation
- How much does Walther Foundation give?
- Walther Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $435,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Walther Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Youth Development (17%), Public Safety & Disaster (7%).
- Who are Walther Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kipp Bay Area Schools ($370k), Aim High ($285k), Schools Mentoring and Resources Team Inc (Smart) ($275k).
- Does Walther Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Walther 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 Walther Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is Walther Foundation based?
- Walther Foundation is based in CA.
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