Illinois · Private foundation
Walter Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2024
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,450,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $575k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Walter Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 31 | $2.8M | 42% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $2.1M | 32% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $7.1M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $2.8M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $6.6M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $8.2M | 54% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $6.4M | 60% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $6.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chimp Haven Inc | $10,000,001 | 3 | 41% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $9,029,800 | 8 | 3% |
| Onegoal | $8,415,000 | 5 | 20% |
| Chicago Theatre Group Inc | $4,838,700 | 8 | 6% |
| Bubye Valley Conservation Research | $3,866,060 | 2 | 97% |
| Field Museum of Natural History | $1,900,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Northwestern University | $962,167 | 5 | 0% |
| American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums Inc | $400,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Focusing Philanthropy Inc | $385,000 | 2 | 1% |
| DMF Internationl Inc | $375,000 | 3 | 15% |
Show all 74 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($462k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Walter Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 66 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: The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Dr Scholl Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · AbbVie Foundation · The Bluhm Family Foundation · Pritzker Traubert Foundation
How this is measured
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About Walter Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Walter Family Foundation Inc give?
- Walter Family Foundation Inc reported 31 grants totaling $2,755,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Walter Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (55%), Education (21%), Arts & Culture (17%).
- Who are Walter Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Chimp Haven Inc ($10M), Lincoln Park Zoological Society ($9.0M), Onegoal ($8.4M).
- Does Walter Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Walter Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Walter Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Polk Bros Foundation Inc, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Walter Family Foundation Inc based?
- Walter Family Foundation Inc is based in IL.
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