Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation

Analysis

Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbus, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation reported income of $8.3m and spending of $4.5m, leaving 45% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $8.5m to $8.3m (-2.8%), an average of -0.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 83%. Over the whole period it spent 62% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 94th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Foundation of North Central Florida Inc ($8.3m), Community Foundation of the Florida Keys ($8.3m) and United Way-Mccormick Partnership for Strong Neighborhoods Inc ($8.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 33% of the total. At year end it held assets of $107.2m against liabilities of $3.5m, net assets of $103.7m.