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The Walters Family Foundation Grants

Private foundation · EIN 47-1395696 · IRS 990-PF filings through tax year 2024

Total grants paid
$1.2M
Grants reported
22
Typical grant
$50K
Future commitments

Reported commitments not yet paid.

Not reported

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Original filing text

Reported organization name: THE WALTERS FAMILY FOUNDATION

Where The Walters Family Foundation gives

States of grant recipients reported on the foundation's 990-PF filings, by dollars received.

Largest reported grants

Historical awards reported to the IRS. These are examples of past giving, not open opportunities.

Conservation Resource Alliance

TRAVERSE CITY, MI

$150KTax year 2024

Grant purpose

Wff funding will help to preserve and protect northern michigan's waterways, wildlife, and forests for future generations.

Huron Pines Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc

GAYLORD, MI

$125KTax year 2024

Grant purpose

Wff funding will help the work across forests, lakes and streams of northern michigan to improve economic, environmental, educational and recreational opportunities to engage people in conservation stewardship to support sustainable, empowered communities rich with protected natural resources.

Lawrence Technological University

SOUTHFIELD, MI

$120KTax year 2024

Grant purpose

Wff funding will help the private university by contributing to scholarship funds to help students with rising cost of college education.

Racquet Up Detroit

DETROIT, MI

$100KTax year 2024

Grant purpose

Wff funding will help support and empower detroit youth to achieve thier full potential through a demanding and inspiring long-term extracurricular mentoring program of squash, academics, and community service.

Lean Rocket Lab

JACKSON, MI

$90KTax year 2024

Grant purpose

Wff funding will help remove common barriers to innovation by providing a collaborative workspace full of high energy entrepreneurs, advanced educational programming, helpful business resources, and access to various stages of capital so businesses or products can launch and thrive.

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About this data

Figures are aggregated from The Walters Family Foundation's IRS Form 990-PF electronic filings (1 filing on file, most recent tax year 2024). Totals reflect grants the foundation reported as paid, and can lag the current year because foundations file annually and often on extension. Source: IRS 990-PF filing on ProPublica. Raw e-file archive (ZIP) — a large IRS yearly archive download.

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