Funder Standing / The Rob Walton Foundation

The Rob Walton Foundation

AR · EIN 474259772 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees occasionally

6 of 52 organizations The Rob Walton Foundation funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 18.4%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 33.0%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
18.4%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$50,000
Range $5,000 – $33,863,725
Repeat-dollar share
92.4%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
No
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
100.0%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
5
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation$33,863,725
Conservation International Foundation$33,003,484
African Parks Foundation of America$14,416,078
Wildlife Conservation Society$9,328,315
Arizona State University Foundation for A New American University$8,000,000
Emory University$1,550,000
The Earthshot Prize$1,326,207
Climate Leadership Council Inc$900,000
Tides Center$750,000
Frankfurt Zoological Society - US Inc$657,103
Western Stock Show Association$500,000
United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation$375,000
International Conservation Caucus Foundation$325,000
Arizona Aerospace Foundation Inc$300,000
Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix$250,000
Team Africa Rising Inc$250,000
Bridge2Rwanda Inc$175,000
USA Cycling Inc$160,000
Phoenix Theatre Inc$100,000
Aspen Music Festival and School$50,000
College of Wooster$50,000
Columbia University$50,000
Liberty Wildlife Inc$50,000
National Park Foundation$50,000
Phoenix Art Museum$50,000

Showing the 25 largest of 52 grants.

How to read this

Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows which organizations were funded for the first time.

That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.

What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what The Rob Walton Foundation funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately
Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01
Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus

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