· Private foundation
Alice L Walton Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $726k
- $50k–250k39 grants · $3.8M
- $250k+20 grants · $43M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Camp War Eagle Inc | $12,037,070 |
| Catalyst Church NWA Inc | $7,200,000 |
| Walton Family Foundation Inc | $5,197,846 |
| Yale University | $5,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000,000 |
| The Morehouse School of Medicine Inc | $2,250,000 |
| Spelman College | $1,438,242 |
| Robin Hood Foundation | $1,000,000 |
| Bill Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation | $1,000,000 |
| The Aspen Institute | $833,333 |
| THE SILK ROAD PROJECT INC | $528,667 |
| Fort Worth Zoological Association Inc | $500,000 |
| Triple Aught Foundation | $500,000 |
| University of Arkansas | $375,000 |
| Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation | $367,457 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $936k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 26% of Alice L Walton Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18M 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
- CWCAMP WAR EAGLE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $43M · revenue +44% · 95% of their budget
- ALAlice L Walton School of Medicine3× · 2021–2023 · $38M · revenue ×14 · 93% of their budget
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION3× · 2020–2023 · $11M · revenue +25%
Funded once
- EFEQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INCone grant, 2022 · $50M · revenue +23% · 46% of their budget
- EFEVENT FACILITIES FORT WORTH INCone grant, 2019 · $5.0M · revenue -94%
- CBCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc2× · 2019–2021 · $5.0M · revenue +12%
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.
The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The fort wayne museum of art will collect, preserve and present american and related art to engage and educate broad and diverse audiences throughout the region and add value to their lives.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…
The woodruff arts center's mission is to inspire, create, support, and celebrate renowned arts and education for diverse audiences through a unique model of partnerships and collaborations, and in an institutionally sustainable manner.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Peel Compton 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
162 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. 162 of the 198 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 EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP WAR EAGLE INC ↗
- Who funds Alice L Walton School of Medicine ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds Walton Family Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVENT FACILITIES FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL AR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Circle of Life ↗
- Who funds THE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SILK ROAD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NWTI Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds South Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HENDRIX COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds SMARTHISTORY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds SOAR AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS 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 · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Wal-Mart Foundation · Arvest Foundation · The Schmieding Foundation · Excellerate Foundation Charitable Support · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Excellerate Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Theresa Harris Moore & Joe B Moore Charitable Trust
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 Alice L Walton 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Silk Road Project Inc — 4% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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