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Walder Foundation

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$66.3M
in grants paid: 541
grants: 251
recipients: 2022–2024
filing years

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

$2.3M
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Arie Crown Hebrew Day School Capital Project
$1.5M
Lubavitch Girls High School · Chicago, IL · 2024
Capital Expenses for Construction of a New School building
$500,000
Hillel Torah North Suburban Day School · Skokie, IL · 2024
Hillel Torah Campus Expansion and Renovation
$482,709
Lincoln Park Zoological Society · Chicago, IL · 2024
Global expansion of Chicago-led urban biodiversity research and conservation network
$450,000
Alliance for the Great Lakes · Chicago, IL · 2024
Chicago(land) Flooding and Sanitation Equity Initiative
$388,074
Morton Arboretum · Lisle, IL · 2024
A Chicago Based Hub For Assessment, Planning, And Action For Saving Threatened Trees
$387,049
Chicago Horticultural Society · Glencoe, IL · 2024
Improving ex situ plant conservation: Scaling up zoo pedigree management approaches to critically rare plants in the Pacific
$373,382
Shedd Aquarium Society · Chicago, IL · 2024
Maximizing Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation Through global partnerships
$360,000
Yeshiva Shearis Yisroel-Veitzener Cheder · Chicago, IL · 2024
Mortgage Reduction Funds
$333,000
University of Guelph · 2024
Bioalfa: advancing knowledge of costa rican biodiversity through dna barcodes
$330,075
Etzion Foundation · Teaneck, NJ · 2024
Women's Shulchan Aruch and Halachic Writing Fellowship
$300,000
Nijc Nfp · Chicago, IL · 2024
Strengthening Legal Services for Chicago Immigrants
$300,000
Research Corporation · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Scialog Partnership to Support Chicago-Area Fellows research
$300,000
Metropolitan Planning Council · Chicago, IL · 2024
Right Infrastructure, Right Place
$275,000
Relief Resources · Lakewood, NJ · 2024
Relief Global Midwest Division
$260,000
Healthy Schools Campaign · Chicago, IL · 2024
Green + Resilient Chicago: A sustainable, equitable plan for public investment in Green Stormwater Infrastructure
$250,000
Iff · Chicago, IL · 2024
America's Cultural Treasures Chicago
$250,000
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024
The Walder Foundation Distinguished Professorship in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
$250,000
Chicago Community Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024
Illinois Immigration Funders Collaborative
$250,000
American Friends of Hala · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Support for Purchase of MRI Machine
$250,000
Soulu · Chicago, IL · 2024
Upward Community Circle of Support
$250,000
Shriver Center On Poverty Law · Chicago, IL · 2024
Migration and Immigrant Communities
$244,000
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Israel Emergency Response
$240,000
The Jerusalem College of Technology · 2024
Tal Campus Bioinformatics Department and Conference center
$229,127
Field Museum of Natural History · Chicago, IL · 2024
Magnifying Conservation Impact and Biodiversity Understanding in the Guiana Shield
$200,000
Core I · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General support
$200,000
Yeshiva University · New York, NY · 2024
Advancing Women's Learning and Leadership: THE GRADUATE PROGRAM FOR ADVANCED TALMUDIC STUDIES (GPATS)
$175,000
Mesivta Shaarei Adirim · Skokie, IL · 2024
General Operating Support
$175,000
Jewish Woman Entrepreneur · Ft Lauderdale, FL · 2024
General support
$150,000
Chicago Mezuzah and Mitzvah Campaign · Chicago, IL · 2024
CMC Senior Center Garden
$150,000
Welcoming America · Decatur, GA · 2024
General Operating Support
$150,000
Steppenwolf Theatre Co · Chicago, IL · 2024
Steppenwolf's LookOut Series
$150,000
Forefront · Chicago, IL · 2024
Fresh Taste - Illinois Regenerative Agriculture Initiative
$150,000
American Friends of Nishmat · New York, NY · 2024
Kollel Fellowships at Nishmat: The Jeanie Schottenstein Center for Advanced Torah Studies for Women
$150,000
Morton Arboretum · Lisle, IL · 2024
Chicago Region Trees Initiative Urban Forest Corporate Sustainability Partnership Program
$148,170
Chicago State Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024
Enhancing the impacts and footprints of the Illinois lsamp
$125,000
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project
$125,000
Map Fund · New York, NY · 2024
MAP Fund Core Grant and SPA Program for Chicago-Based artists
$125,000
American Friends of Matan · Monsey, NY · 2024
International Advanced Educators Institute - Eshkolot and strategic planning
$120,000
Maps · Pasadena, CA · 2024
MAPS Israel - Towards Healing October 7
$120,000
Cheder Lubavitch Hebrew Day School · Skokie, IL · 2024
Equity & Excellence in Education Initiative
$120,000
Depaul University · Chicago, IL · 2024
Support for Evacuated Afghan College Students
$120,000
Lubavitch Center · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Kollel for Women and Salary Expenses for Co-Director
$120,000
Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel · New York, NY · 2024
International Halakha Scholars Program (IHSP)
$120,000
Sefaria · New York, NY · 2024
The Author Initiative and General Operating Support
$120,000
Libenu · Skokie, IL · 2024
General Operating Support, Lev Respite, and Residential facilities
$110,000
Lubavitch Mesivta of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Shluchim Mentoring & Leadership, Leadership Development for Senior Staff, Every Student A Success
$106,250
United States Endowment for Forestry and Communiti · Greenville, SC · 2024
Quantified Ventures Chicagoland SRF Watershed Coordinator
$100,000
Kollel Torah Mitzion · Skokie, IL · 2024
Cultivating & Developing the Future Orthodox Jewish leaders of chicago
$100,000
Latino Policy Forum · Chicago, IL · 2024
General Operating Support
$100,000
Lincoln Park Zoological Society · Chicago, IL · 2024
Maximizing the health and biodiversity benefits of Chicago's community gardens
$100,000
Lincoln Park Zoological Society · Chicago, IL · 2024
BatTracker: Community-driven research to monitor bats and connect Chicago residents to nature
$100,000
Loyola University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Harnessing native plant microbiomes to enhance the restoration of biodiversity in the Chicago region
$100,000
Loyola University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Building a mitochondrial genome database of Illinois fish to enhance eDNA surveys to improve conservation outcomes
$100,000
Court Theatre Fund · Chicago, IL · 2024
Establishing an Engagement Division
$100,000
Crossroads Fund · Chicago, IL · 2024
Cultivate
$100,000
Depaul University · Chicago, IL · 2024
Impacts of rapid habitat change: Mammalian diversity and its response to deforestation in a global biodiversity hotspot
$100,000
American Friends of Haruv-Mehalev Association Ltd · Tulsa, OK · 2024
The Haruv Institute - National Center for Innovation in Children's Resilience, Trauma and Mental Health
$100,000
American Friends of Maoz-Seal · Haverhill, MA · 2024
Cross-System Leadership Training for the Mental Healthcare field
$100,000
Field Museum of Natural History · Chicago, IL · 2024
Documenting Diversity Amidst a Mass Extinction: Generating a Conservation Framework for the Flora of Hispaniola
$100,000
Etzion Foundation · Teaneck, NJ · 2024
Migdal Oz - Kollel Machshava
$100,000
Centro Romero · Chicago, IL · 2024
Centro Romero LALAS Project
$100,000
Chicago Horticultural Society · Glencoe, IL · 2024
The grass can be greener: Exploring lawn alternatives for biodiversity support, climate change resilience, and infrastructure
$100,000
Eighth Blackbird Performing Arts Association · Chicago, IL · 2024
2023 and 2024 Blackbird Creative Lab
$100,000
Yeshivath Achei Tmimim of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Capital Support
$100,000
Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Daybreak Fund: Natural Climate Solutions for Lake michigan
$100,000
Window To the World · Chicago, IL · 2024
FIRSTHAND: Migration
$100,000
Vera Institute of Justice · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Evaluation of Legal Representation in the Chicago immigration court
$100,000
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Support for Green Line Performing Arts Center
$100,000
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Harnessing fruit bat conservation to combat zoonotic risk in madagascar
$100,000
The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights · Chicago, IL · 2024
Support for Young Center Chicago Child Advocate Program
$100,000
The Board of Trustees - the University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2024
Wings over the Windy City: science, outreach, and action to protect Chicago's migratory birds
$100,000
The Board of Trustees - the University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2024
America's Next Top Invaders: Forecasting invasive range size of invasive plants using a traits-based framework
$100,000
The Board of Trustees - the University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2024
Development of an infectious disease surveillance program to support the conservation of Chicagoland turtle communities
$100,000
Telshe Yeshiva-Chicago Rabbinical College Telshe-C · Chicago, IL · 2024
General Operating Support/Leadership Development Program
$100,000
Soulu · Chicago, IL · 2024
Organizational Retreat and Ongoing Operations
$100,000
Skokie Valley Agudath Jacob Synagogue · Skokie, IL · 2024
Solu - General Operating Support
$100,000
Sixty Inches From Center · Chicago, IL · 2024
The Sixty Artist Roster + Performing Arts Editorial deepening
$100,000
Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools · New York, NY · 2024
Orthodox Women in Day School Leadership (OWL)
$100,000
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2024
A Chicago Biomedical Consortium Hub of Innovative Technologies for Entrepreneurship and Science (CBC-HITES)
$100,000
Field Museum of Natural History · Chicago, IL · 2024
Small Mammal and Pathogen Diversity in South Side Parks in Chicago: Implications for Human Health and Wellbeing
$100,000
Field Museum of Natural History · Chicago, IL · 2024
Understanding Chicagoland's Changing Conservation Landscape: Resurveys for Reptiles and Amphibians of Will County, IL
$100,000
Northern Illinois Justice for Our Neighbors · Chicago, IL · 2024
Immigration Legal Services
$100,000
Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2024
Four Freedoms Fund
$100,000
National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2024
Consensus Study on Global Forced Migration and U.S. resettlement
$100,000
Morton Arboretum · Lisle, IL · 2024
The consequences of burn pile scars for oak ecosystem biodiversity
$100,000
Ida Crown Jewish Academy · Skokie, IL · 2024
Inspiring Young Women (Ida Crown Girls Club/Mechanechet program)
$100,000
Illinois Arts Alliance · Chicago, IL · 2024
Communications Capacity Building
$100,000
Illinois Environmental Council Education Fund · Springfield, IL · 2024
Chicago Conservation Leadership
$100,000
Immigrant Justice Corps · New York, NY · 2024
IJC Third-Year Fellows
$100,000
Morton Arboretum · Lisle, IL · 2024
Preserving Genetic Diversity in Trees: Integrating an Affordable, Rapid Approach With DNA Sequencing, Action, and Policy
$100,000
Institute for Latino Progress · Chicago, IL · 2024
Instituto del Progreso Latino Immigration Legal Assistance
$100,000
Mercaz Beth Jacob in Eretz Yisroel · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Safety Program Against Injury and Abuse
$100,000
Justice in Motion · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Justice in Motion Chicago Partnerships
$95,000
Ravenswood Budlong Hebr Cong · Hollywood, FL · 2024
Debt Relief and the Operations Director Position
$90,000
Hias · Washington, DC · 2024
Community Sponsorship: Capturing Key Learnings for Refugees and Local Communities
$84,230
Machon · Pikesville, MD · 2024
General Operating Support
$80,000
P E F Israel Endowment Funds · New York, NY · 2024
Hadran -Talmud for Young Women
$80,000
Constellation Performing Arts · Chicago, IL · 2024
Staff Capacity and Production Underwriting Program
$80,000
Faith in Place · Chicago, IL · 2024
Metro Chicago Eco-Ambassadors Youth Program, 2024-2026

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call. Most private foundations do not accept unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.