Walton Family Foundation: Where Opportunity Takes Root
The Walton Family Foundation is, at its core, a family-led foundation. Three generations of the descendants of our founders, Sam and Helen Walton, and their spouses, work together to lead the foundation and create access to opportunity for people and communities. We believe the best ideas can come from anywhere, so we stay open to new thinking from all over. And we partner with those who are closest to the problem because they’re usually closest to the solution.

We work in three areas: improving K-12 education, protecting rivers and oceans and the communities they support, and investing in our home region of Northwest Arkansas and the Arkansas-Mississippi Delta.

In 2020, the foundation awarded $749.5 million in grants to further our mission. Our headquarters are in Bentonville, Arkansas, with offices in Washington, D.C.; Jersey City, New Jersey; and Denver, Colorado.

Mission and Vision

As we focus on making an impact that improves lives today, we also want to ensure that it lasts to benefit future generations. That’s why we are committed to the issues we work on for the long term, and why we’re constantly evaluating our efforts to make sure our solutions are effective and lasting.

Our Mission
We are a family-led foundation that tackles tough social and environmental problems with urgency and a long-term approach to create access to opportunity for people and communities.

Our Vision
To live in a world where people can accomplish anything when they have opportunity and encouragement

Our Values

• ROOTED in the places we work and in a family legacy of giving back
• ACTIVE in our work with grantees and in enabling individuals to take an active role in determining their futures
• STEADY in our focused approach to creating lasting change
• BOLD in our belief about what’s possible and in tackling big, complex problems
• OPEN about who we are and to ideas from anywhere in keeping with our diversity, equity and inclusion commitments both internally and externally

Careers

We are a family-led foundation that tackles tough social and environmental problems with urgency and a long-term approach. Join our team.

Where Opportunity Takes Root
No one ever solved big problems by thinking small. Creating lasting change in society requires leaders driven by a spirit of innovation, a curiosity to explore what is possible and an urgent willingness to be bold where others are cautious. It’s how we seed success – it’s how opportunity takes root.

We work in three areas: improving K-12 education, protecting rivers and oceans and the communities they support, and investing in our home region of Northwest Arkansas and the Arkansas-Mississippi Delta.

The Walton Family Foundation is looking for skilled, highly motivated and entrepreneurial individuals to help us create access to opportunity for people and communities. Join us.