Walder Family Foundation
Invitation OnlyWilmington, Delaware · EIN 46-4092041 · Private foundation
Grants paid (2024)$24.4M
Organizations funded200
Typical grant$75,000
Total assets$199.7M
Half of its grants to organizations were between $50,000 and $100,000.
From the return
How to apply
On its return for tax year 2024 the foundation checked the box saying it only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds.
What it funds
Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.
Where it gives
100% of grants went outside Delaware.
Grants paid in tax year 2024
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago | Chicago, IL | Arie Crown Hebrew Day School Capital Project | $2,250,000 |
| Lubavitch Girls High School Inc | Chicago, IL | Capital Expenses for Construction of a New School building | $1,500,000 |
| Hillel Torah North Suburban Day School | Skokie, IL | Hillel Torah Campus Expansion and Renovation | $500,000 |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | Chicago, IL | Global expansion of Chicago-led urban biodiversity research and conservation network | $482,709 |
| Alliance for the Great Lakes | Chicago, IL | Chicago(land) Flooding and Sanitation Equity Initiative | $450,000 |
| Morton Arboretum | Lisle, IL | A Chicago Based Hub For Assessment, Planning, And Action For Saving Threatened Trees | $388,074 |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | Glencoe, IL | Improving ex situ plant conservation: Scaling up zoo pedigree management approaches to critically rare plants in the Pacific | $387,049 |
| Shedd Aquarium Society | Chicago, IL | Maximizing Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation Through global partnerships | $373,382 |
| Yeshiva Shearis Yisroel-Veitzener Cheder Inc | Chicago, IL | Mortgage Reduction Funds | $360,000 |
| University of Guelph | Guelph, CA | Bioalfa: advancing knowledge of costa rican biodiversity through dna barcodes | $333,000 |
| Etzion Foundation Inc | Teaneck, NJ | Women's Shulchan Aruch and Halachic Writing Fellowship | $330,075 |
| Metropolitan Planning Council | Chicago, IL | Right Infrastructure, Right Place | $300,000 |
| Nijc NFP | Chicago, IL | Strengthening Legal Services for Chicago Immigrants | $300,000 |
| Research Corporation | Tucson, AZ | Scialog Partnership to Support Chicago-Area Fellows research | $300,000 |
| Relief Resources Inc | Lakewood, NJ | Relief Global Midwest Division | $275,000 |
| Healthy Schools Campaign | Chicago, IL | Green + Resilient Chicago: A sustainable, equitable plan for public investment in Green Stormwater Infrastructure | $260,000 |
| American Friends of Hala | Cleveland, OH | Support for Purchase of MRI Machine | $250,000 |
| Chicago Community Foundation | Chicago, IL | Illinois Immigration Funders Collaborative | $250,000 |
| Iff | Chicago, IL | America's Cultural Treasures Chicago | $250,000 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | The Walder Foundation Distinguished Professorship in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | $250,000 |
| Shriver Center on Poverty Law | Chicago, IL | Migration and Immigrant Communities | $250,000 |
| Soulu | Chicago, IL | Upward Community Circle of Support | $250,000 |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | Chicago, IL | Israel Emergency Response | $244,000 |
| The Jerusalem College of Technology | Jerusalem, IS | Tal Campus Bioinformatics Department and Conference center | $240,000 |
| Field Museum of Natural History | Chicago, IL | Magnifying Conservation Impact and Biodiversity Understanding in the Guiana Shield | $229,127 |
| Core I Inc | Brooklyn, NY | General support | $200,000 |
| Yeshiva University | New York, NY | Advancing Women's Learning and Leadership: THE GRADUATE PROGRAM FOR ADVANCED TALMUDIC STUDIES (GPATS) | $200,000 |
| Jewish Woman Entrepreneur | Ft Lauderdale, FL | General support | $175,000 |
| Mesivta Shaarei Adirim | Skokie, IL | General Operating Support | $175,000 |
| American Friends of Nishmat | New York, NY | Kollel Fellowships at Nishmat: The Jeanie Schottenstein Center for Advanced Torah Studies for Women | $150,000 |
| Chicago Mezuzah and Mitzvah Campaign | Chicago, IL | CMC Senior Center Garden | $150,000 |
| Forefront | Chicago, IL | Fresh Taste - Illinois Regenerative Agriculture Initiative | $150,000 |
| Morton Arboretum | Lisle, IL | Chicago Region Trees Initiative Urban Forest Corporate Sustainability Partnership Program | $150,000 |
| Steppenwolf Theatre Co | Chicago, IL | Steppenwolf's LookOut Series | $150,000 |
| Welcoming America Inc | Decatur, GA | General Operating Support | $150,000 |
| Chicago State Foundation | Chicago, IL | Enhancing the impacts and footprints of the Illinois lsamp | $148,170 |
| American Friends of Matan Inc | Monsey, NY | International Advanced Educators Institute - Eshkolot and strategic planning | $125,000 |
| Map Fund Inc | New York, NY | MAP Fund Core Grant and SPA Program for Chicago-Based artists | $125,000 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project | $125,000 |
| Cheder Lubavitch Hebrew Day School Inc | Skokie, IL | Equity & Excellence in Education Initiative | $120,000 |
| Depaul University | Chicago, IL | Support for Evacuated Afghan College Students | $120,000 |
| Libenu | Skokie, IL | General Operating Support, Lev Respite, and Residential facilities | $120,000 |
| Lubavitch Center | Pittsburgh, PA | Kollel for Women and Salary Expenses for Co-Director | $120,000 |
| Maps | Pasadena, CA | MAPS Israel - Towards Healing October 7 | $120,000 |
| Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel | New York, NY | International Halakha Scholars Program (IHSP) | $120,000 |
| Sefaria Inc | New York, NY | The Author Initiative and General Operating Support | $120,000 |
| Lubavitch Mesivta of Chicago | Chicago, IL | Shluchim Mentoring & Leadership, Leadership Development for Senior Staff, Every Student A Success | $110,000 |
| United States Endowment for Forestry and Communiti | Greenville, SC | Quantified Ventures Chicagoland SRF Watershed Coordinator | $106,250 |
| American Friends of Haruv-Mehalev Association Ltd | Tulsa, OK | The Haruv Institute - National Center for Innovation in Children's Resilience, Trauma and Mental Health | $100,000 |
| American Friends of Maoz-Seal Inc | Haverhill, MA | Cross-System Leadership Training for the Mental Healthcare field | $100,000 |
| Centro Romero | Chicago, IL | Centro Romero LALAS Project | $100,000 |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | Glencoe, IL | The grass can be greener: Exploring lawn alternatives for biodiversity support, climate change resilience, and infrastructure | $100,000 |
| Court Theatre Fund | Chicago, IL | Establishing an Engagement Division | $100,000 |
| Crossroads Fund | Chicago, IL | Cultivate | $100,000 |
| Depaul University | Chicago, IL | Impacts of rapid habitat change: Mammalian diversity and its response to deforestation in a global biodiversity hotspot | $100,000 |
| Eighth Blackbird Performing Arts Association | Chicago, IL | 2023 and 2024 Blackbird Creative Lab | $100,000 |
| Etzion Foundation Inc | Teaneck, NJ | Migdal Oz - Kollel Machshava | $100,000 |
| Field Museum of Natural History | Chicago, IL | Documenting Diversity Amidst a Mass Extinction: Generating a Conservation Framework for the Flora of Hispaniola | $100,000 |
| Field Museum of Natural History | Chicago, IL | 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 | Understanding Chicagoland's Changing Conservation Landscape: Resurveys for Reptiles and Amphibians of Will County, IL | $100,000 |
Showing the 60 largest of 200 grants to organizations.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $24,415,290 | 200 |
| 2023 | $22,496,937 | 208 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2024, filed Oct 30, 2025 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202513039349101601
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 46-4092041
- Profile updated Nov 4, 2026
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