· Private foundation
Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 120 grants below total $8,947,312 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,385,362 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,438,050 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k65 grants · $255k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $657k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+10 grants · $6.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Walton Arts Center | $1,500,000 |
| Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | $1,000,000 |
| Arkansas Children's Foundation | $1,000,000 |
| Razorback Foundation | $1,000,000 |
| Fayetteville Public Library | $500,000 |
| City of Springdale Downtown Springdale Alliance | $500,000 |
| Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | $500,000 |
| Walton Arts Center | $400,000 |
| University of the Ozarks | $250,000 |
| Children's Safety Center | $250,000 |
| Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | $200,000 |
| Arkansas Children's Foundation | $150,000 |
| Mercy Health Foundatin | $125,000 |
| Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum | $100,000 |
| TheatreSquared | $100,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 59 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ACARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2022 · $3.3M · revenue +186%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS2× · 2020–2022 · $755k · revenue +60%
- CMCOUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2022 · $300k · revenue +418%
Funded once
- MHMercy Health Foundationone grant, 2020 · $500k
- AGARKANSAS GAME AND FISH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $350k · revenue -14%
- NFNWACC Foundationone grant, 2020 · $250k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.
The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
Arkansas community foundation engages people, connects resources and inspires solutions to build community.
Advocate for educational professionals and unite our members and the state to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.
To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history
To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education
Arkansas farm bureau foundation (the "foundation") is organized for charitable and educational purposes to further the understanding of agricultural and rural issues, and to support the agricultural and rural community through financial…
The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.
Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.
Food bank that distributes food supplies to families in need in nine counties.
Provide educational programs for construction industries.
Provide recreational and educational activities for citizens of northwest arkansas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is M&N Augustine Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
47 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. 47 of the 116 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc ↗
- Who funds RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds THEATRE SQUARED INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS GAME AND FISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SAFETY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WELCOMEHEALTH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NW ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds Hope Cancer Resources ↗
- Who funds JESUS CHAPEL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOVE IS A GIFT INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Wal-Mart Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Schmieding Foundation · Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Tyson Family Foundation Inc · Excellerate Foundation Charitable Support · Alice L Walton Foundation · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc
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.