Private foundation · EIN 13-3441466 · Bentonville, AR · Return for the year ending 2023-12-31
Where Walton Family Foundation's grants went
It reported $587M in grants paid across 1,125 lines. WHOFUNDS matched 82.3% of those dollars to 620 recipient organizations.
- Matched to an EIN $484M 905 lines
- No confident match $91.4M 175
- Individuals, not shown $1.18M 2
- Outside the US $11.2M 42
- Not itemized $5,000 1
What its filing says about applications
Preselected only It checked the 990-PF box saying it only gives to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.
- Website on filing
- www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org
Contact names and phone numbers are on the filing itself. WHOFUNDS doesn't republish them.
Grants paid 1,102 published lines
| Recipient | Paid | Purpose as filed | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Builders Vision Foundation Chicago, IL · EIN 82-1503941 | $39,693,100 | to support charitable grantmaking and related operational expenses. | Exact name 1.00 |
| City Fund Beaverton, OR · EIN 82-4938743 | $33,000,000 | To support general operations. | Exact name 1.00 |
| Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony Eureka Springs, AR · no confident EIN match | $21,637,578 | To support the construction of a new opera theater building and faculty housing units and supporting infrastructure on the campus of Opera in the Ozarks. | Unmatched Help match |
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund Boston, MA · EIN 11-0303001 | $19,433,243 | To support special charitable projects. | Known alias 1.00 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors New York, NY · EIN 13-3615533 | $15,000,000 | To support the Learning Engineer Virtual Institute, a new model for Education R&D designed to create technology-enabled solutions that can… | Same city 1.00 |
| Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund Denver, CO · EIN 05-0620063 | $13,000,000 | to support the creation and expansion of high-quality charter schools and charter management organizations nationally | Same address 1.00 |
| Teach for America New York, NY · EIN 13-3541913 | $13,000,000 | to recruit, train and support diverse, high-quality teachers and increase the number of alumni in school or system leadership roles nationa… | Same address 1.00 |
| Khan Academy Mountain View, CA · EIN 26-1544963 | $10,720,357 | To support a five-year goal to accelerate math learning by 50 percent for 10 percent of students in the U.S. | Same address 1.00 |
| KIPP Foundation San Francisco, CA · EIN 94-3362724 | $10,400,000 | to support the KIPP 2025 campaign. | Same city 1.00 |
| The Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education Group Chicago, IL · EIN 85-3906899 | $10,000,000 | To support historically underrepresented entrepreneurs solving complex and urgent K-12 education challenges inhibiting the social and econo… | Same address 1.00 |
| Regents of the University of California Merced, CA · no confident EIN match | $9,089,964 | To fund scholarships for Gateway Scholars. | Unmatched Help match |
| Northwest Arkansas Council Foundation Springdale, AR · EIN 46-0807914 | $6,750,000 | To support a partnership with the nonprofit Community Development Corporation (CDC) and the "Big Emma" development team to acquire in downt… | Same address 1.00 |
| University of Denver Denver, CO · EIN 84-0404231 | $6,128,238 | to provide funding to help DU establish an endowed scholarship fund | Same ZIP 1.00 |
| Bentonville Library Foundation Bentonville, AR · EIN 38-3691802 | $5,000,000 | to support the expansion efforts of the Bentonville Public Library. | Same street 1.00 |
| Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund Denver, CO · EIN 05-0620063 | $5,000,000 | To support the Growth and Early Launch of the Next Generation of Great Charter Networks. | Same address 1.00 |
| Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Bentonville, AR · EIN 20-1359710 | $5,000,000 | To create an endowed fund for the long-term sustainability of the museum's Community Engagement program. | Same address 1.00 |
| National Alliance for Public Charter Schools Washington, DC · EIN 30-0274709 | $5,000,000 | To support general operations. | Same address 1.00 |
| Vela Education Fund Arlington, VA · EIN 84-4185046 | $5,000,000 | To invest in education innovation occurring outside the bounds of traditional school, reaching millions of underserved students and familie… | Same city 1.00 |
| Grand River Dam Authority Tulsa, OK · no confident EIN match | $4,902,134 | to construct a whitewater park on the Illinois River located at the Lake Frances spillway in Adair County, Oklahoma. | Unmatched Help match |
| Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Bentonville, AR · EIN 20-1359710 | $4,100,000 | To support capital improvements at the Momentary | Same address 1.00 |
| Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learning Nashville, TN · EIN 88-3207484 | $4,000,000 | To support subgrants to promising tutoring providers, researchers, and state departments of education to support successful implementation… | Same city 1.00 |
| Advanced Education Research & Development Fund Oakland, CA · EIN 85-3624930 | $4,000,000 | To serve as a R&D engine for the education sector. | Same city 1.00 |
| The Childrens Scholarship Fund New York, NY · EIN 13-4002189 | $4,000,000 | to provide tuition assistance to students in grades K-8 to attend alternatives to faltering conventional schools and provide administrative… | Same address 1.00 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors New York, NY · EIN 13-3615533 | $3,991,717 | To support research on how K-12 schools can increase social and economic mobility for children across the US. | Same city 1.00 |
| NewSchools Venture Fund Oakland, CA · no confident EIN match | $3,940,000 | to support the launch of new, innovative schools, grants for early-stage ventures that will help increase the proportion of Black and Latino leaders in education, a Teacher Diversity Request for Proposals, and greater communications capacit | Unmatched Help match |
| New Venture Fund Washington, DC · EIN 20-5806345 | $3,900,000 | To increase the number of career-connected learning models and approaches for historically disadvantaged students in grades six through 14. | Same address 1.00 |
| Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Stanford, CA · EIN 13-1623924 | $3,781,035 | To support Carnegie in leading a field-wide shift from time and credit-based schooling (the Carnegie unit) to mastery-based models of attai… | Same address 1.00 |
| Theatre Squared Fayetteville, AR · EIN 20-1016258 | $3,750,000 | To provide support for TheatreSquared's programming and operations in NW Arkansas. | Same address 1.00 |
| New Venture Fund Washington, DC · EIN 20-5806345 | $3,600,000 | To support the Colorado River Sustainability Campaign in providing coordination and leadership to Foundation grantees in the Colorado River… | Same address 1.00 |
| Education Reform Now New York, NY · EIN 20-3687838 | $3,450,000 | To support general operations. | Same city 1.00 |
| City of Bentonville Bentonville, AR · no confident EIN match | $3,300,000 | To support the final phase of the reconstruction of 8th Street in Bentonville, including new bicycle and pedestrian facilities, enhanced intersections for safety and improved traffic flow for all modes of transportation including public tra | Unmatched Help match |
| Bes Boston, MA · EIN 35-2194153 | $3,250,000 | To increase the supply of high-quality charter schools by recruiting and training leaders for the BES Fellowship and supporting them to lau… | Same city 1.00 |
| City of Bentonville Bentonville, AR · no confident EIN match | $3,089,165 | To support the construction of the new A Street Promenade as part of the City of Bentonville's Quilt of Parks Plan. | Unmatched Help match |
| National Alliance for Public Charter Schools Washington, DC · EIN 30-0274709 | $3,072,877 | To Support NAPCS programming, including federal and state-specific policy and coalitions work, sector-wide communications efforts, a Legal… | Same address 1.00 |
| Foundation for Excellence in Education Tallahassee, FL · EIN 26-0615175 | $3,000,000 | To support general operations. | Same address 1.00 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors New York, NY · EIN 13-3615533 | $3,000,000 | To provide support for the Platform for Agriculture and Climate Transformation project, which will allow coordinated donors to have a bigge… | Same city 1.00 |
| Water Foundation Sacramento, CA · EIN 37-1833985 | $3,000,000 | To leverage public funds for on-the-ground water solutions for people and the environment in the face of climate change. | Same street 1.00 |
| Environmental Defense Fund New York, NY · EIN 11-6107128 | $2,904,910 | To support the work of the Restore the Mississippi River Delta coalition. | Same address 1.00 |
| California Charter Schools Association Los Angeles, CA · EIN 51-0465703 | $2,800,000 | To support, protect, and defend public charter schools in California and to accelerate the rate of closing the opportunity gap for historic… | Same address 1.00 |
| Ffwd San Francisco, CA · EIN 46-4626500 | $2,750,000 | To support the scaling of nonprofit organizations that create high-quality instructional materials. | Same ZIP 1.00 |
| Children's Museum of Nw Arkansas Bentonville, AR · EIN 20-4718511 | $2,636,134 | To support the Amazeum's operations and programming. | Same address 1.00 |
| Getting Smart Collective Federal Way, WA · EIN 27-2643961 | $2,500,000 | To launch a new grant program to accelerate innovation and impact across microschools. | Same ZIP 1.00 |
| The Learning Accelerator Sacramento, CA · EIN 46-1059054 | $2,500,000 | To Support subgrants to successful hybrid and virtual learning programs and to further research about high-quality hybrid learning models t… | Same address 1.00 |
| Northwest Arkansas Council Foundation Springdale, AR · EIN 46-0807914 | $2,499,500 | To support convening stakeholders across the NWA community for important conversations about the region, and to support economic developmen… | Same address 1.00 |
| National Philanthropic Trust Jenkintown, PA · EIN 23-7825575 | $2,353,763 | To support special charitable projects . | Known alias 1.00 |
| National Wildlife Federation Reston, VA · EIN 53-0204616 | $2,300,000 | To support NWF's participation in the Restore the Mississippi River Delta coalition. | Same address 1.00 |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University Tempe, AZ · EIN 86-6051042 | $2,296,290 | To support the Center on Reinventing Public Education, housed within Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton College of Education, to ex… | Same city 1.00 |
| National Audubon Society New York, NY · EIN 13-1624102 | $2,242,570 | To support Audubon's participation in the Restore the Mississippi River Delta coalition. | Same street 1.00 |
| Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Bentonville, AR · EIN 20-1359710 | $2,200,000 | To support construction of Convergence, a robust new community family playspace inspired by art, science, nature and technology | Same address 1.00 |
| Bentonville Bella Vista Trailblazers Bentonville, AR · EIN 71-0785162 | $2,187,041 | To support operations and programming for the merged NWA Trailblazers / BikeNWA organization | Same address 1.00 |
20 more lines ($5.71M) aren't listed because the payee name as filed could identify a private person.
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105 recipients in common - The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation Menlo Park, CA
98 recipients in common - Jpmorgan Chase Foundation New York, NY
90 recipients in common - The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Los Altos, CA
72 recipients in common - The Pfizer Foundation New York, NY
71 recipients in common - The Ford Foundation New York, NY
70 recipients in common
Where this comes from
Grant lines are from Part XV of this foundation's Form 990-PF (XML). The filing names each payee but gives no tax ID, so WHOFUNDS matched payees to the IRS Business Master File. Lines it couldn't match confidently are listed as filed. Method and limits.