Ohio · Public charity
Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation
The walter family foundation is a supporting organization of the columbus foundation. The purpose of the walter family foundation is to support charitable organizations which benefit the community.
- $6.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $55,180
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,042,050
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 45
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $143M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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 | 27 | $6.1M | 30% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $6.9M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $2.7M | 45% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $4.7M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $12M | 32% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $4.8M | 62% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $5.3M | 47% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $3.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Charles Preparatory School | $9,742,200 | 7 | n/a |
| Our Lady of Perpetual Help School | $4,165,550 | 5 | n/a |
| The Ohio University Foundation | $4,016,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Catholic Diocese of Columbus | $3,150,500 | 4 | n/a |
| United Schools | $2,734,437 | 4 | 96% |
| Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc | $2,600,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ohio State University Foundation | $2,062,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Saint Mary Catholic Church | $2,016,250 | 7 | n/a |
| Lawrence Catholic Academy of Lawrence Massachusetts Inc | $1,219,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Star House | $1,000,000 | 1 | 17% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 95 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Columbus Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Meuse Family Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus · Columbus Jewish Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation with peer funders
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About Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation
- How much does Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation give?
- Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $6,246,892 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (59%), Health (9%), Religion (8%).
- Who are Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: St Charles Preparatory School ($9.7M), Our Lady of Perpetual Help School ($4.2M), The Ohio University Foundation ($4.0M).
- Does Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, Ingram-White Castle Foundation, United Way of Central Ohio Inc.
- Where is Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation based?
- Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation is based in OH.
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