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Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation Inc

The foundation's mission is to operate as a supporting organization to (I) public and private colleges and universities operating in the state of arkansas and (ii) community foundations operating in five states whch include: arkansas, kansas, missouri, oklahoma, and texas.

$24M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8.4M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$159MScience & Tech$156MPhilanthropy$12MEmployment$557kArts & Culture$200k
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $241k
  • $250k+18 grants · $24M
$569,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$8,419,691
JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY$1,871,405
UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS$1,863,788
HARDING UNIVERSITY$1,821,269
ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$1,768,097
ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$1,640,728
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC$1,133,850
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$877,000
JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY$750,000
HARDING UNIVERSITY$729,952
UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS$569,500
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$566,095
JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY$408,784
JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY$378,900
HARDING UNIVERSITY$348,746
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%John Brown University: $6.5M → 8%University of Arkansas Foundation Inc: $75.1M → 14%ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5.5M → 17%University of the Ozarks: $5.3M → 19%John Brown University: $2.9M → 8%University of Arkansas Foundation Inc: $45.1M → 14%ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3.0M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $3.4M → 19%JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY: $2.7M → 8%University of Arkansas Foundation Inc: $34.3M → 14%ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3.0M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $3.0M → 19%John Brown University: $2.7M → 8%University of Arkansas Foundation Inc: $28.5M → 14%Arkansas Community Foundation Inc: $810k → 17%University of the Ozarks: $2.5M → 19%JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY: $2.6M → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION: $23.0M → 14%ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $8.4M → 17%University of the Ozarks: $2.3M → 19%JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY: $1.9M → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION: $4.6M → 14%Arkansas Community Foundation Inc: $3.4M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $1.9M → 19%John Brown University: $1.8M → 8%University of Arkansas Foundation Inc: $4.5M → 14%Arkansas Community Foundation Inc: $3.1M → 17%University of the Ozarks: $1.5M → 19%John Brown University: $1.5M → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION: $2.4M → 14%Arkansas Community Foundation Inc: $2.7M → 17%University of the Ozarks: $1.3M → 19%John Brown University: $1.2M → 8%University of Arkansas Foundation Inc: $1.5M → 14%ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1.8M → 17%University of the Ozarks: $1.2M → 19%John Brown University: $883k → 8%University of Arkansas Foundation Inc: $1.5M → 14%ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1.6M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $1.2M → 19%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $1.1M → 14%Arkansas Community Foundation Inc: $778k → 17%University of the Ozarks: $880k → 19%University of Arkansas Foundation Inc: $1.1M → 14%University of Arkansas Foundation Inc: $825k → 14%Northwest Arkansas Community College Foundation Inc: $4.4M → 8%Northwest Arkansas Community College Foundation Inc: $926k → 8%NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $877k → 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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation Inclessmore 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
04Its field
05the grantee network

6 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.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $226,042,075 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INCJOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY: $37,084,859 · EducationJOHN BROWN UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $25,755,338 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS+1 more: $8,037,309 · EducationARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $35,015,042 · PhilanthropyARKANSAS CO…Harding University Inc: $20,162,322 · Other
Education$296,919,581Philanthropy$35,015,042Other$20,162,322

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $226,042,075 over 8y, 59% of budgetJOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY: $37,084,859 over 8y, 15% of budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $35,015,042 over 8y, 15% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $25,755,338 over 8y, 15% of budgetHarding University Inc: $20,162,322 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetNorthwest Arkansas Community College Foundation Inc: $8,037,309 over 5y, 58% 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS ↗
  • Who funds Harding University Inc ↗
  • Who funds Northwest Arkansas Community College Foundation Inc ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation Inc 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 6 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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