Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Foundation gifts
The Walton Family Foundation contributed $27 million to Northwest Arkansas institutions in 2014. The foundation donated another $7.5 million to Arkansas education, including some area schools. Here are the Northwest Arkansas grants: Northwest Arkansas Arkansas Department of Education $29,000 Beaver Watershed Alliance $123,998 Bella Vista Foundation $75,000 Benton County School of the Arts $732,219 Bentonville Bella Vista Trailblazers Association Inc. $934,923 Bentonville Child Care and Development Center $49,849 Bicycle Coalition of the Ozarks $145,767 Catholic Diocese of Little Rock $98,000 Amazeum $5,374,080 Cisneros Center for New Americans $50,000 City of Bentonville $2,053,304 City of Fayetteville $1,855,185 City of Rogers $2,703,401 City of Springdale $400,000 City of Siloam Springs $638,510 Credit Counseling of Arkansas Inc. $216,217 Downtown Bentonville Inc. $160,000 Endeavor Foundation $3,000,000 Fayetteville Public Education Foundation Inc. $134,850 Haas Hall Academy $500,000 Hispanic Scholarship Fund $152,500 Illinois River Watershed Partnership $200,000 Jones Trust $1,000,000 KIPP Delta Public Schools $400,000 Northwest Arkansas Community Creative Center $91,840 Northwest Arkansas Council Foundation $1,699,337 Northwest Arkansas Regional Planning Commission $306,667 Ozark Montessori Academy $220,000 Rogers New Technology High $249,180 Rogers Public Schools $40,000 Springdale Public Schools $262,000 Symphony Orchestra of Northwest Arkansas $136,293 The Peel Compton Foundation $220,000 Theatre Squared $430,000 Tricycle Theatre For Youth $56,494 Walton Arts Center Inc. $1,600,000 Watershed Conservation Resource Center $100,000 Winrock International $634,613 Northwest Arkansas Total $27,073,227