Walton
Business family
Sam Walton, founder ofWalmart
Etymology	Walton (surname); for "a place with the suffixtun ('town, farm, hamlet') and one of the prefixeswald ('a wood'),walesc ('foreigner') orwalh ('farm worker')"
Founder	Sam Walton (1918–1992)
Distinctions	Wealthiest family in the world (US$432 billion; 2024)
Website	WaltonFamilyFoundation.org

TheWalton family is an American family whose collective fortune derived fromWalmart which in-turn makes them thesecond-richest family in the world.

The three most prominent living members (Jim,Rob, andAlice Walton) have consistently been in the top twenty of theForbes 400 list since 2001, as wereJohn (d. 2005) andHelen (d. 2007) prior to their deaths.Christy Walton took her husband John's place in the ranking after his death. The majority of the family's wealth derives from the heritage ofBud andSam Walton, who were the co-founders ofWalmart. Walmart is the world's largest retailer, one of the world's largest business enterprises in terms of annual revenue, and, with just over 2.2 million employees, the world's largest private employer.

The Walton family's wealth is majority held through the investmentholding companyWalton Enterprises.^[1]

As of December 2014^[update], the Waltons collectively owned 50.8 percent of Walmart.^[2] In 2018, the family sold some of their company's stock and now owns just under 50%.^[3] In December 2024, the Walton family's net worth was estimated to be US$432.4 billion.^[4]

In 1987, Sam Walton endowed a charitable foundation. The Walton Family Foundation primarily focused on charter schools, but it later extended its program to include environmental issues, particularly water-related.^[5]

In 2016, Alice and Jim Walton put a $250 million grant towards building charter school facilities. The Walton Family Foundation created the Building Equity Initiative to provide charter schools with access to capital to create and expand their facilities.^[6] This initiative was established after the foundation announced in 2016 that it would spend $1 billion over the next five years to expand "educational opportunity" by partnering with charter school operators, researchers, and education reformers.^[7]

The Walton family fortune is broken down as such, as of February 2025:

• Jim Walton, $117.7 billion^[9]
• S. Robson Walton, $119 billion^[10]
• Alice Walton, $109.8 billion^[11]
• Lukas Walton, $40.9 billion^[12]
• Christy Walton, $19.9 billion^[13]
• Nancy Walton Laurie, $16.1 billion^[14]
• Ann Walton Kroenke, $13.4 billion^[15]

Their immediate family includes Jim, Christy, and Lukas Walton.

• Walton family
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• American businesspeople in retailing
• Business families of the United States
• Presbyterian families

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