Equity.
Opportunity.
Sustainability.
TWF Causes advances two distinct missions: promote equity by countering systemic obstacles that block opportunity for marginalized people and save rare species and wild places. These are united by the Walter family’s core values: equity, opportunity and sustainability.
TWF Causes seeks opportunities to build sustainable models of philanthropy that create permanent capital from direct ownership of stakes in businesses or business operations and that fund the causes reducing the need for continuous philanthropic investment.
Kimbra and Mark Walter
Kimbra and Mark Walter are advocates for conservation, social equity and education.
Mark leads TWG, an organization that invests capital and builds businesses. TWG owns and controls businesses in the following segments: financial services; renewables; sports, media and entertainment; art; eco-tourism and agriculture. Mark co-founded and is the CEO of Guggenheim Capital, LLC, a diversified financial services firm with more than $340 billion in assets under management.
Mark serves on the board of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, as a director of The Field Museum, as a trustee of Northwestern University and as a trustee of Creighton University. Mark received his J.D. from Northwestern University in 1985 and a BSBA from Creighton University in 1982.
Kimbra is an attorney and philanthropist. She serves on the boards of trustees of the Lincoln Park Zoo, OneGoal, the Goodman Theatre and is active in TWF Causes’s social impact and conservation work. She earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Northwestern in 1985 and a J.D. from Southern Methodist University.
Kimbra and Mark reside in Chicago with their daughter.