Form 990-PF for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$796,378,256

Total expenses

$692,126,736

Contributions and grants received

$543,804,664

Contributions, gifts and grants paid

$545,204,912

Fair market value of assets, end of year

$6,899,628,770

Listed in Part VIII

Compensation is as filed in Part VIII of the Form 990-PF: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.

Grants paid on this return

Grants paid, cash basis (Part I, line 25, column (d))

$541,894,929

As filed, and sometimes filed as 0.

Grants paid, Part XV total (line 3a)

$541,894,929

The foundation's own total of the grants it itemizes.

These are the grants the foundation paid during the year. The “Contributions, gifts and grants paid” total above is the figure on the foundation's books. This return marks the cash method, under which a grant is recorded when it is paid. Even so, the books total and the cash figures in this section can differ, and column (d) is sometimes filed as 0.

• Teach For America Inc

  $26,000,000

  New York, NY

  To recruit, train and support diverse, high-quality teachers and increase the number of alumni in school or system leadership roles nationally.

• City Fund

  $15,000,000

  Falls Church, VA

  To support a local education reform agenda across mature cities nationally, including six where WFF has long made direct investments (Atlanta, Denver, Indianapolis, New Orleans, San Antonio, Washington, DC).

• Charter Fund Inc DBA Charter School Growth Fund

  $13,000,000

  Broomfield, CO

  To support the creation and expansion of high-quality charter schools and charter management organizations (CMOs) nationally.

• Advanced Education Research and Development Fund

  $12,000,000

  Oakland, CA

  To serve as a R&D engine for the education sector.

• Grand River Dam Authority

  $10,088,437

  Tulsa, OK

  To construct a whitewater park on the Illinois River located at the Lake Frances spillway in Adair County, Oklahoma.

• Arkansas Department of Parks Heritage and Tourism

  $10,000,000

  Little Rock, AR

  To support the completion of The Delta Heritage Trail as more fully described in the Delta Heritage Trail Master Plan dated April 2019 and in the updated Extension Budget dated October 16, 2019.

• Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

  $10,000,000

  New York, NY

  To launch and manage the Learning Engineer Virtual Institute (LEVI), a new model for Education R&D designed to create technology-enabled solutions that can double the rate of low-income, middle school students' math learning.

• NewSchools Venture Fund

  $6,492,500

  Oakland, CA

  To support the launch of new, innovative schools, grants for early-stage ventures that will help increase the proportion of Black and Latino leaders in education, a Teacher Diversity Request for Proposals, and greater communications capacity.

• Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

  $6,105,248

  Boston, MA

  To support the Snacks Family Donor-Advised Fund.

• VELA Education Fund

  $6,000,000

  Arlington, VA

  To invest in education innovation occurring outside the bounds of traditional school, reaching millions of underserved students and families.

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Provenance

Return type

form_990_pf

Tax year

2022

Filed

15 November 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202323199349103222

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