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The Rob Walton Foundation

Name: The Rob Walton Foundation grants, 2022–2024
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

225
grants reported: $244.4M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $25,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

through conservation africa areas national protected event strategy

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Protected area management and conservation in Africa
Large matching gifts to global conservation intermediaries (CI, WCS)
Ocean conservation, including Blue Nature Alliance and Mozambique
Phoenix-area civic, arts, animal welfare and social service nonprofits
Cycling, mountain bike trails and Olympic cycling programs
Theodore Roosevelt legacy institutions and conservation leadership education

Typical grant

Median grant is $25,000 and half of all grants fall between $10,000 and $285,342, so most checks are small community gifts. The money is concentrated in a handful of eight-figure conservation awards: $33.9M to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation, $24.6M and $14.7M to Conservation International, and repeated multimillion-dollar grants to African Parks. Repeat giving is the norm at both ends: African Parks, Conservation International, Frankfurt Zoological Society, Climate Leadership Council, Tides Center, USA Cycling and several Phoenix groups appear in consecutive years, often at identical amounts.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“Africa Protected Areas Strategy Implementation”
“to provide matching support toward Spend Down Fund 2.0”
“the development and management of national parks and key conservation areas in Africa”
“To support general operations”
“international conservation that benefits nature and people”

Positioning adjacent work

Anchor to African protected areas or ocean conservation; those two themes absorb most dollars.
Offer a match. Their largest grants repeatedly say 'matching support' or 'match funding'.
For a first university ask, look at the ASU model: design and research money before an eight-figure program.
Small local asks in Phoenix, Bentonville, or Aspen realistically top out near $50,000.

Worth knowing: A very small set of grantees takes nearly all the money: African Parks, Conservation International, WCS, Legacy Landscapes Fund and the Roosevelt Library account for the large majority of $244M, and the pattern looks relationship-driven rather than competitive. Everything else is a personal-geography portfolio tied to Phoenix, Northwest Arkansas, Aspen, and Rob Walton's cycling and automotive interests, with grants of $5,000 to $50,000.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Conservation International Foundation10 grants · $78.2M
African Parks Foundation of America8 grants · $58.3M
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation1 grant · $33.9M
Internationaler Naturerbe Fonds - Legacy Landscapes Fund3 grants · $10.5M
Wildlife Conservation Society3 grants · $9.8M
African Parks Network1 grant · $9.6M
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University5 grants · $9.1M
The Earthshot Prize3 grants · $3.7M
Clean Future Forum2 grants · $3.5M
Frankfurt Zoological Society - US4 grants · $3.2M

Giving over time

$59.1M

2022

$78.1M

2023

$107.1M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 225 grants.

$33.9M
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation · Medora, ND · 2024
To provide funding for library
$30.0M
Conservation International Foundation · Arlington, VA · 2022
To provide matching support toward the Spend Down Fund 2.0
$24.6M
Conservation International Foundation · Arlington, VA · 2024
To provide matching support toward Spend Down Fund 2.0
$17.6M
African Parks Foundation of America · New York, NY · 2022
to provide operational support to the African Parks Network in developing and managing national parks and other important conservation areas in Africa
$16.5M
African Parks Foundation of America · New York, NY · 2023
To support important conservation areas in Africa.
$14.7M
Conservation International Foundation · Arlington, VA · 2023
to provide matching support toward a Spend Down Fund 2.0.
$10.0M
Internationaler Naturerbe Fonds - Legacy Landscapes Fund · 2023
Match funding to support conservation efforts in the Namibia Skeleton Coast - Etosha Conservation Bridge Legacy Landscape.
$9.8M
African Parks Foundation of America · New York, NY · 2023
to provide endowed and operational support to the African Parks Network for the development and management of national parks and key conservation areas in Africa.
$9.6M
African Parks Network · 2023
to support building working capital reserves for conservation efforts.
$9.3M
Wildlife Conservation Society · Bronx, NY · 2024
To support Africa Protected Areas Strategy Implementation
$8.0M
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University · Tempe, AZ · 2024
To support School of Conservation Futures and related programs
$5.0M
African Parks Foundation of America · Washington, DC · 2024
To provide operational support for the development and management of national parks and key conservation areas in Africa.
$4.8M
African Parks Foundation of America · Washington, DC · 2024
To support African Parks Incubation Program: Scaling Through Partnerships
$4.6M
Conservation International Foundation · Arlington, VA · 2024
To support ocean conservation through the Blue Nature Alliance project
$3.5M
African Parks Foundation of America · Washington, DC · 2024
To support important conservation in Africa, including Rewilding of Key Species
$3.3M
Conservation International Foundation · Arlington, VA · 2024
To support Country Packages Seed Fund
$2.0M
Frankfurt Zoological Society - US · Washington, DC · 2023
to support the launch of a new strategy for Protected Areas in Africa.
$2.0M
Arizona Humane Society · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
To support CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
$1.9M
Clean Future Forum · Washington, DC · 2023
to support Clean Future Forum's charitable climate action work
$1.6M
Clean Future Forum · Washington, DC · 2022
to support Clean Future Forum's charitable climate action work
$1.5M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2024
To support Phase 1: Advance a Global Culture of Compassion
$1.3M
The Earthshot Prize · 2024
To provide support for the Earthshot Prize, a global prize designed to scale environment and conservations solutions
$1.2M
The Earthshot Prize · 2023
to provide support for The Earthshot Prize, a global environment prize designed to incentivize change and help repair the planet over the next ten years (the "Prize")
$1.1M
African Parks Foundation of America · Washington, DC · 2024
To support establishing a Conservation Academy
$1.1M
The Earthshot Prize · 2022
To provide support for The Earthshot Prize, a global environment prize designed to incentivize change and help repair our planet over the next ten years.
$1.0M
Arizona Humane Society · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
to support construction of a new campus through the campaign to transform animal welfare.
$1.0M
Foundation To Combat Anti-Semitism · Foxboro, MA · 2023
Program support to raise awareness, engage individuals, and rebuild and celebrate Jewish identity.
$1.0M
McPherson College · McPherson, KS · 2023
To support the Rob Walton Scholarship Fund.
$1.0M
Phoenix Theatre · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
To support construction and theater improvements through the Centennial Capital Campaign.
$932,603
Walton Family Foundation · Bentonville, AR · 2023
to support Home Region, Environment, and/or K-12 Education programs.
$900,000
Climate Leadership Council · Washington, DC · 2024
To support general operations
$900,000
Climate Leadership Council · Washington, DC · 2023
To support general operations.
$800,000
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2022
To support compassion program scaling
$750,000
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Mosaic Project building collaboration within the environmental movement
$750,000
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2023
to support Phase 1: Advance a Global Culture of Compassion
$750,000
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Mosaic Project to strengthen the environmental movement.
$750,000
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University · Tempe, AZ · 2022
to support design of a Global Conservation University
$750,000
Climate Leadership Council · Washington, DC · 2022
To support Carbon Dividends Framework and Inter-Related Strategies
$700,000
Arizona Aerospace Foundation · Tucson, AZ · 2023
to provide matching funding for the construction of the Tucson Military Vehicle Museum.
$657,103
Frankfurt Zoological Society - US · Washington, DC · 2024
To support Africa Protected Areas Strategy Implementation
$650,000
Nia Tero Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2022
to support expansion of Wayfinders Circle
$620,713
B'Nai Levy Foundation · 2022
To support the memorial building construction
$504,396
Frankfurt Zoological Society - US · Washington, DC · 2023
To support the Assessment and Strategy for Africa Work.
$500,000
Conservation International Foundation · Arlington, VA · 2024
To support Heal Our Planet, Protect Our Future Campaign
$500,000
Western Stock Show Association · Denver, CO · 2024
To support National Western Stock Show through Honoring the Legacy Campaign
$500,000
The University of Cincinnati Foundation · Cincinnati, OH · 2023
To support the Portman Center Fellowship Program Endowment
$500,000
Western Stock Show Association · Denver, CO · 2023
to support the Honoring the Legacy Campaign of the National Western Stock Show.
$500,000
Wildlife Conservation Society · Bronx, NY · 2022
To support the Africa Protected Area Strategy
$375,000
United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation · Colorado Springs, CO · 2024
Multi-year cycling support
$375,000
United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation · Colorado Springs, CO · 2023
Multi-Year Cycling Support
$334,000
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International · Atlanta, GA · 2022
To support the Education Center
$325,000
International Conservation Caucus Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
To support educational activities focused on the importance of international conservation that benefits nature and people
$325,000
International Conservation Caucus Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
to support educational activities focused on the importance of international conservation that benefits nature and people.
$300,000
Arizona Aerospace Foundation · Tucson, AZ · 2024
To support Tucson Military Vehicle Museum
$300,000
Conservation International Foundation · Arlington, VA · 2023
To support the Assessment and Strategy for Africa Work
$300,000
Internationaler Naturerbe Fonds - Legacy Landscapes Fund · 2022
To support Iona National Park and Odzala-Kokoua National Park
$285,342
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University · Tempe, AZ · 2023
To support research and design of a global conservation leadership initiative at Arizona State University.
$273,000
Arizona Science Center · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
to provide matching funding for the Jane Goodall's Reasons for Hope Film and Education Initiative.
$260,000
International Conservation Caucus Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
To support International Partnership for People and Nature
$250,000
Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent De Paul Diocese Phoenix · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
To support the urban farm at St. Vincent De Paul
$250,000
Team Africa Rising · Savery, WY · 2024
To support general operations
$250,000
Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent De Paul Diocese Phoenix · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
to support the Urban Farm at St. Vincent de Paul through the 2023 Restoring Hope Community Breakfast.
$250,000
Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent De Paul Diocese Phoenix · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
To support urban farm operations
$249,600
Nia Tero Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2023
to support the expansion of Wayfinders Circle.
$200,000
Internationaler Naturerbe Fonds - Legacy Landscapes Fund · 2023
To fund Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the Congo and Iona National Park in Angola as pilot legacy landscape sites to strengthen the long-term funding of these globally significant protected areas.
$197,339
Conservation International Foundation · Arlington, VA · 2023
To support efforts to catalyze ocean conservation in Mozambique.
$175,000
Bridge2rwanda · Little Rock, AR · 2024
To support Expanding Conservation Agriculture Farming Method in Africa
$175,000
Bridge2rwanda · Little Rock, AR · 2023
To supports efforts to accelerate the adoption of conservation agriculture practices in Rwanda.
$174,516
Team Africa Rising · Savery, WY · 2022
To support the AFRICAN CYCLING PROGRAM
$140,000
USA Cycling · Colorado Springs, CO · 2023
to support a three-year strategy to grow the sport of bike racing.
$110,000
USA Cycling · Colorado Springs, CO · 2024
To support a three-year strategy to grow the sport of bike racing.
$100,000
Phoenix Theatre · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
To support general operations
$100,000
Divine Love World Charity · New York, NY · 2022
To support Healthcare Initiatives & Humanitarian Programs
$100,000
The Nature Conservancy - Arizona · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
To provide general operating support
$75,000
United Way of Northwest Arkansas · Lowell, AR · 2023
To support general operations.
$75,000
United Way of Northwest Arkansas · Lowell, AR · 2022
To provide general operating support
$60,000
Girl Scouts - Arizona Cactus-Pine Council · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
STEM PROGRAMMING support
$50,000
Aspen Music Festival and School · Aspen, CO · 2024
To Support the annual fund in 2024
$50,000
College of Wooster · Wooster, OH · 2024
To Support the annual fund in 2024
$50,000
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
To support the Columbia Law School Annual Fund in 2024
$50,000
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2024
To support Two-cohort Compassion Fellowships
$50,000
Liberty Wildlife · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
To support general operations
$50,000
National Park Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
To support general operations and needs of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park
$50,000
Phoenix Art Museum · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
To support general operations
$50,000
Salvation Army of Nwa · Fayetteville, AR · 2024
To support general operations in Benton and Washington Counties in Arkansas
$50,000
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2024
To support the Hoover Institution's general operations
$50,000
The Nature Conservancy - Arizona · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
To support general operations
$50,000
The Nature Conservancy - Arkansas · Little Rock, AR · 2024
To support general operations
$50,000
USA Cycling · Colorado Springs, CO · 2024
To support general operations
$50,000
Barrow Neurological Foundation · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
to support general operations through the 2023 Neuro Night event
$50,000
Girl Scouts - Arizona Cactus-Pine Council · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
to support STEM programming budget
$50,000
Liberty Wildlife · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
to support the Non-Eagle Feather Repository program through the 2023 Wishes for Wildlife Event
$50,000
National Park Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
To support general operations and the development of a project brief for improvements to the Painted Canyon, North Unit Complex, and Medora Entry Area of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
$50,000
Salvation Army of Nwa · Fayetteville, AR · 2023
TO SUPPORT GENERAL OPERATIONS in Benton and Washington counties in Arkansas.
$50,000
The Be Kind People Project Foundation · Scottsdale, AZ · 2023
to support general operations through the 2023 Annual Gala.
$50,000
The Nature Conservancy - Arizona · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
To support general operations.
$50,000
The Nature Conservancy - Arkansas · Little Rock, AR · 2023
To support general operations.
$50,000
USA Cycling · Colorado Springs, CO · 2023
To support general operations.
$50,000
Aspen Music Festival and School · Aspen, CO · 2022
to provide support for Grantee's Annual Fund and 2022 Winter Music Recital Series
$50,000
Inquiring Systems · Santa Rosa, CA · 2022
To support Imaging the Biofield - Phase 3

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