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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.

$47M
Granted FY2024still arriving
95
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$12M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$107MArts & Culture$55MHealth$54MYouth Development$49MPhilanthropy$23MReligion$7.6MCommunity Improvement$6.0MAnimals$5.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 95 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $726k
  • $50k–250k39 grants · $3.8M
  • $250k+20 grants · $43M
$50,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$4.7B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Parker County Committee on Aging Inc: $5k → 8%Presbyterian Children's Homes and Services: $25k → 10%Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter: $100k → 8%Presbyterian Children's Homes and Services: $25k → 10%Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter: $100k → 8%Washington Regional Medical Foundation: $82k → 14%Presbyterian Children's Homes and Services: $25k → 10%Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter: $100k → 8%Presbyterian Children's Homes and Services: $25k → 10%Presbyterian Children's Homes and Services: $25k → 10%Saving Grace: $50k → 8%Saving Grace: $50k → 8%Sheep Dog Impact Assistance: $20k → 8%Dress for Success Northwest Arkansas: $10k → 8%Arkansas Coalition of Marshallese Inc: $20k → 14%Dress for Success Northwest Arkansas: $10k → 8%World Services for the Blind Incorporated: $10k → 17%Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter: $100k → 8%Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter: $100k → 8%Havenwood Inc: $50k → 8%Havenwood Inc: $4k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MO
VA
AZ
AR
SC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 26% of Alice L Walton Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Alice L Walton Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$176M · 85 repeat orgs$94M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

85 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

85
78

Total granted

$176M
$77M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+23%

Still filing today

88%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CW
    CAMP WAR EAGLE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $43M · revenue +44% · 95% of their budget
  • AL
    Alice L Walton School of Medicine
    3× · 2021–2023 · $38M · revenue ×14 · 93% of their budget
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $11M · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • EF
    EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50M · revenue +23% · 46% of their budget
  • CB
    Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc
    2× · 2019–2021 · $5.0M · revenue +12%
  • EF
    EVENT FACILITIES FORT WORTH INC
    one grant, 2019 · $5.0M · revenue -94%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New Orleans Museum of Art

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
3
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
4
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
5
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
6
Fort Wayne Museum of Art Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
11
Museum of Northwest Art

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

162 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 162 of the 196 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
159/162
Grantees still filing
108/162
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC: $50,000,000 · EducationEQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INCTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $30,000,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STA…Spelman College: $11,207,045 · EducationSpelman CollegeMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $4,750,000 · Education+18 more: $11,500,480 · Education+18 moreAlice L Walton School of Medicine: $38,061,060 · OtherAlice L Walton School of M…CATALYST CHURCH NWA INC: $7,200,000 · OtherCATALYST CHURCH NWA INCYALE UNIVERSITY: $5,000,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYNORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANK: $3,938,133 · OtherNORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BA…Individual grant recipient: $3,000,000 · OtherTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $2,624,999 · Other+87 more: $13,420,353 · Other+87 moreCAMP WAR EAGLE INC: $42,529,201 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP WAR EAGLE IN…EVENT FACILITIES FORT WORTH INC: $5,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentEVENT FACILITIES …+4 more: $1,085,000 · Youth DevelopmentSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $11,214,759 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INS…AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $8,000,000 · Arts & CultureAMON CARTER MUS…Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc: $5,000,000 · Arts & CultureCrystal Bridges…SILK ROAD PROJECT INC: $2,336,000 · Arts & CultureSILK ROAD PROJE…National Gallery of Art: $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $1,404,481 · Arts & Culture+45 more: $11,106,150 · Arts & Culture+45 moreWalton Family Foundation Inc: $8,214,274 · PhilanthropyWalton Fa…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $6,000,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELL…ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOO…Circle of Life: $3,000,000 · PhilanthropyCircle of…ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,400,000 · PhilanthropyARKANSAS …+7 more: $1,595,000 · Philanthropy+7 moreBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $6,000,000 · HealthARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $384,400 · HealthThe New York and Presbyterian Hospital: $300,000 · HealthChopra Foundation: $295,000 · HealthArisa Health Inc: $267,455 · Health+5 more: $225,000 · HealthTHE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $3,000,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,000,000 · Animals
Education$107,457,525Other$73,244,545Youth Development$48,614,201Arts & Culture$41,061,390Philanthropy$25,209,274Health$7,471,855Animals$5,000,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC: $50,000,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetCAMP WAR EAGLE INC: $42,529,201 over 4y, 95% of budgetAlice L Walton School of Medicine: $38,061,060 over 3y, 93% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $30,000,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $11,214,759 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSpelman College: $11,207,045 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetWalton Family Foundation Inc: $8,214,274 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $8,000,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $6,000,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $6,000,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc: $5,000,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetEVENT FACILITIES FORT WORTH INC: $5,000,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $4,750,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANK: $3,938,133 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL AR FOUNDATION INC: $3,000,001 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetTHE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $3,000,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCircle of Life: $3,000,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $2,624,999 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSILK ROAD PROJECT INC: $2,336,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetNORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $2,026,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $1,873,805 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNWTI Education Foundation: $1,410,000 over 1y, 86% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $1,404,481 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,400,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $1,350,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetSouth Arts Inc: $1,175,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION: $1,034,914 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetHENDRIX COLLEGE: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSMARTHISTORY INC: $974,500 over 4y, 30% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS: $939,437 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetSOAR AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM: $800,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC: $800,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetNEW HAVEN HOME INC: $700,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetTHE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $650,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER IN DBA EVERHOPE ARKANSAS INC: $600,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetPEACE AT HOME FAMILY SHELTER INC: $590,000 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetBENTONVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTRIPLE AUGHT FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $500,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET: $500,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $450,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $450,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $411,473 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Arkansas Community Fo…Walton Family Foundat…Wal-Mart FoundationArvest FoundationThe Schmieding Founda…Excellerate Foundatio…Roy and Christine Stu…Delta Dental of Arkan…Je and le Mabee Found…Excellerate FoundationThomas M Helen McKee …Theresa Harris Moore …
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR85.6× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alice L Walton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alice L Walton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Alice L Walton Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Alice L Walton 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 196 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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