Georgia · Nonprofit
Living Walls The City Speaks Inc
Living Walls The City Speaks Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $332,571 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($250,536). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $564k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $333k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Living Walls The City Speaks Inc does
Mission
Living Walls: The City Speaks, Inc. promotes public interest in and appreciation of public space through street art by working with local, national and international artists to create contemporary public art, murals and installations around the city of Atlanta. Through this artwork we bring awareness to public space that is often overlooked, neglected or taken for granted while also inspiring social change. We engage in dialogue with communities around this artwork and the locations they inhabit through mural making, workshops, lectures, conferences and gallery showings. We install artwork in a variety of locations around the City of Atlanta, and eventually the State of Georgia, in order to bring individuals into areas they may not normally travel, and therefore get to know their city, state and fellow Georgians in a new way.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Public Art curation and Mural Production: Living Walls worked with community organizations and mission aligned partners to commission works of public art in various districts of the City of Atlanta and beyond. Our focus remains to provide the tools, resources, and training to equip a diverse pool of artists to thrive in their creative careers. In 2025, we created 9 murals, commissioned 5 mixed media installations. hired 40 artists and 8 media contractors.
$522,644 spent$399,506 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $522,644.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $119k to $198k (+66%).
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: 2020 1% · 2024 8% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of Living Walls The City Speaks Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Shaina Negron
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $50k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 Living Walls The City Speaks Inc’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
Living Walls The City Speaks Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Living Walls The City Speaks Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
84% of Living Walls The City Speaks Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $53k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $280k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Living Walls The City Speaks Inc's revenue grew 42% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Living Walls The City Speaks Inc
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Living Walls The City Speaks Inc: 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 Living Walls The City Speaks Inc?
- Living Walls The City Speaks Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $332,571 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($250,536). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Living Walls The City Speaks Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $332,571 in grants to Living Walls The City Speaks Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Living Walls The City Speaks Inc?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,536 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Living Walls The City Speaks Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2020–2025), 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