· Private foundation
Walton 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k60 grants · $275k
- $10k–50k108 grants · $2.4M
- $50k–250k409 grants · $54M
- $250k+443 grants · $506M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Town Branch Foundation | $35,550,004 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc | $15,000,000 |
| 50CAN Inc | $13,300,000 |
| Charter Fund Inc | $13,000,000 |
| Federation of American Scientists | $13,000,000 |
| New Venture Fund | $12,504,469 |
| Opera in the Ozarks Inc | $11,257,418 |
| NewSchools Venture Fund | $10,000,000 |
| Arkansas Department of Parks Heritage and Tourism | $9,844,587 |
| National Philanthropic Trust | $9,702,517 |
| Advanced Education Research and Development Fund | $8,400,000 |
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | $7,432,153 |
| Cambiar Education | $7,000,001 |
| NewSchools Venture Fund | $5,700,000 |
| Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education Group | $5,000,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $17.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Walton Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
900 repeat relationships — 559 still active in FY2024, 341 since wound down; 114 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CFCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND5× · 2020–2024 · $102M · revenue +56%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED5× · 2020–2024 · $53M · revenue +121%- OIOPERA IN THE OZARKS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $35M · revenue ×48 · 68% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $12M
- ADArkansas Department of Veterans Affairsone grant, 2022 · $5.5M
- PPPlanned Parenthood of Illinoisone grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue -8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
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As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Higher education shapes the future of every community in america-determining who moves up the economic ladder, where good jobs develop, and how regions prosper. this promise depends on the public's ability to see and understand how their…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education and the most unlike its peers is Wartime History Museum Inc (Aka Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum). 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.
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 19 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
1336 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1336 of the 1,638 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds CITY FUND ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNCIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW SCHOOLS FUND ↗
- Who funds ADVANCED EDUCATION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds OPERA IN THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMBIAR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds TNTP INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds 50CAN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds BENTONVILLE BELLA VISTA TRAILBLAZERS ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION REFORM NOW INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS ↗
- Who funds WATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VELA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND AVENUE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION GROUP ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP WAR EAGLE INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Meridian Institute ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds THEATRE SQUARED INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Wal-Mart Foundation · City Fund · New Schools Fund · Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation · Gates Foundation · Alice L Walton Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc
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 organization Walton Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Bonneville Environmental Foundation — 100% of income from government
- Oklahoma Public School Resource Center — 67% of income from government
- National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance Inc — 38% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Massachusetts Charter Public School Association Inc — 15% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Teacher Prep Inspection-Us Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.