California · Nonprofit
California Walks
California Walks (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,242,410 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($932,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $933k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $471k
What California Walks does
Mission
Statewide voice for pedestrian safety and healthy, walkable communities for people of all ages and abilities. California Walks partners with state agencies, community-based organizations and residents.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program (CPBSP) is a joint project of California Walks and UC Berkeley's Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SAFETREC) with funding provided by the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The CPBSP is a three project program that works with residents, schools, agencies, organizations, local officials, and other community partners across the state to understand a community's walking and biking safety concerns and advance their safety goals. We completed 12 workshops and follow-up trainings during the fiscal year across the state. Since 2009, we have worked with over 200 communities and helped communities receive millions in active transportation funds through our workshop outreach, reports, and follow-up technical assistance.
$494,963 spent$1,176 earned by the program82% of program spendingThe California Endowment: Cal Walks completed two of four policy roundtables and helped to lead a coalition of organizations interested in creating a pedestrian and bicycle safety education policy for schools across the state. Additionally, we began working to build a student leadership group that would serve as local leaders in their communities on pedestrian and bicycle safety issues.
$83,270 spent14% of program spendingKern Council of Governments Safe Routes 4 Cycling (SR4C) Caltrans funded project ended in January 2025. Cal Walks led administrative management, reporting, and the planning and agenda for stakeholder meetings in 13 communities across the County.
$22,463 spent4% of program spendingSCAG Go Human: Cal Walks worked with multiple communities across Southern California to implement safe roadway infrastructure demonstration projects using the SCAG Kit of Parts. This included planning, coordination, deployment, surveying, and reporting on for each event as well as assistance with planning for future improvements based on feedback from the demonstrations.
$716 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $601,412.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $370k to $600k (+62%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 66% · 2019 66% · 2020 60% · 2021 66% · 2022 78% · 2023 80% · 2024 79% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of California Walks’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $240k → $150k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of California Walks’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
California Walks leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 93% · 2019 100% · 2020 49% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
76% of California Walks's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
California Walks runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like California Walks
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for California Walks: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds California Walks?
- California Walks (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,242,410 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($932,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does California Walks have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,242,410 in grants to California Walks, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of California Walks?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $932,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like California Walks find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing