Walter Family Foundation
EIN 46-1384089 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 51 grants · $1.5m
Who it funds most
22 of its 49 grantees were funded in more than one year; 1 matching gifts set aside.
Walter Family Foundation's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 40 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2023, filing 202413209349106346
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
Its returns7 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202543189349103569 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202413209349106346 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202343199349109709 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202233199349103673 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202133199349109913 | IRS batch file |
| 2019 | IRS 990-PF | 202032439349100103 | IRS batch file |
| 2018 | IRS 990-PF | 201943199349104334 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Walter Family Foundation made 160 grants across 2018–2024, totalling $36.0m as filed.
- Grants
- 160
- Total, as filed
- $36.0m
- Years
- 2018–2024
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| CHIMP HAVEN INC | 3 | $10.0m |
| LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | 7 | $8.1m |
| ONEGOAL | 4 | $4.4m |
| CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC | 7 | $4.0m |
| BUBYE VALLEY CONSERVATION RESEARCH | 2 | $3.9m |
| FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | 7 | $1.9m |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | 4 | $712.2k |
| FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC | 2 | $385.0k |
| DIKEMBE MUTOMBO FOUNDATION INC | 2 | $350.0k |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS & AQUARIUMS INC | 1 | $200.0k |
| ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY ILLINOIS | 2 | $200.0k |
| JACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION | 5 | $189.4k |
| LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO | 4 | $170.0k |
| CENTER FOR THE ARTS | 3 | $160.0k |
| LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY | 6 | $145.5k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 20 | $6.4m |
| 2019 | 26 | $8.2m |
| 2020 | 20 | $6.6m |
| 2021 | 17 | $2.8m |
| 2022 | 24 | $7.1m |
| 2023 | 22 | $2.1m |
| 2024 | 31 | $2.8m |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-461384089. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified