How much did WAL-MART FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of WAL-MART FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

executive givingnwa givingassociate givinggiving expeditedexpedited applicationsave childrenbrighter bites

2021

executivehunger reliefrelief healthyhealthy eatingnaturalfoundatichildrens shelte

2022

executivecancercasa northwestdiabeteschurchministriesdiversity talent

2023

racial solidaritydisaster reliefrelief preparednesshealthier foodmount sequoyahmovementcommon

2024

racial solidaritydisaster reliefrelief preparednesshealthier foodspringdale districtclimatecriminal justice

2025

caring connecteddisaster reliefrelief preparednesshealthier foodnorthwestcriminal justicejustice reform

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 144 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k4 grants · $20k
$10k–50k14 grants · $378k
$50k–250k35 grants · $3.6M
$250k+91 grants · $110M

$435,000

Median grant

States reached

$23M

Total assets

Largest grants

CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$8,510,199
NATURE CONSERVANCY$5,702,615
TECHNOSERVE INC$4,800,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC$2,704,091
FOOD BANKS CANADA$2,528,750
FOUNDATION FOR BLACK COMMUNITIES$2,500,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$2,500,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA$2,500,000
THE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC$2,499,900
CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES$2,465,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING$2,445,127
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD INC$2,000,504
WAL-MART ASSOCIATES IN CRITICAL NEED FUND$2,000,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL I$2,000,000
ARKANSAS CHILDRENS NORTHWEST INC$2,000,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $31.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$596M · 411 repeat orgs$183M to everyone else

411 repeat relationships — 101 still active in FY2025, 310 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

411

652

Total granted

$596M

$161M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+50%

Still filing today

68%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

FEEDING AMERICA
6× · 2020–2025 · $33M · revenue +77%
TI
TECHNOSERVE INC
4× · 2020–2025 · $17M · revenue +50%
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $15M · revenue +113%

Funded once

UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2021 · $5.0M · revenue -16%
NC
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSNS OF THE
one grant, 2020 · $4.3M
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSNS OF THE USAgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $4.0M · revenue +51%

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

04Your field

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.

United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Inc

Deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential.

Arts & Culture

Augustana College

Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.

Education

Arkansas Foodbank

The arkansas foodbank acquires, through local and national partnerships, large quantities of food and other resources to distribute to hungry people in the state of arkansas. the arkansas foodbank supports programs for children as well as…

Food & Nutrition

University of Denver

A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Education

University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education

American Gas Association

American gas association (the association) is an advocate for natural gas utility companies and their customers. the association helps natural gas utilities achieve operational excellence in the safe, reliable and efficient delivery of…

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United States Endowment for Forestry

To advance positive change for the nation's working forests and forest-reliant communities

Environment

Arbor Research Collaborative for

To improve patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice.

Health

Global Greengrants Fund

Mobilize resources for communities worldwide to protect our shared planet.

Environment

Central Indiana Corporate

The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…

Community Improvement

Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundations of Success Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sesame Workshop. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.5%4/728

the rest of the field

11%

206,160/1,818,837

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.

05the grantee network

666 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

166

Early backer (in before they grew)

640/666

Grantees still filing

503/666

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$433,472,248International$83,353,730Environment$69,555,777Food & Nutrition$64,881,015Education$62,126,212Human Services$34,519,144Philanthropy$31,729,079

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.

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.

Walton Family Foundation IncAR87.7× affinity92 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Walton Family Foundation Inc · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Alice L Walton Foundation · The Schmieding Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Excellerate Foundation Charitable · Pure Inc · Tyson Family Foundation Inc · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Excellerate Foundation · Bogle Family Foundation · McKinney C & a 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 organisation WAL-MART 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

12get no government money at all

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FIRST PEOPLES CONSERVATION COUNCIL OF LOUISIANA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~68 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 20.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 383892179 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FIRST PEOPLES CONSERVATION COUNCIL OF LOUISIANA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 68 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 98% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Wal-Mart Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wal-Mart Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WAL-MART FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?