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NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN FOUNDATION

NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,900 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$62k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$64k
Net assets
$69k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Narada Michael Walden Foundation does

Program

  1. Holiday jam

    $56,083 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($51k) Expenses 100 ($48k) Net assets 100 ($24k)2018 Revenue 108 ($55k) Expenses 98 ($47k) Net assets 131 ($32k)2019 Revenue 96 ($49k) Expenses 106 ($51k) Net assets 121 ($29k)2020 Revenue 16 ($8k) Expenses 22 ($11k) Net assets 110 ($27k)2021 Revenue 104 ($53k) Expenses 32 ($16k) Net assets 264 ($64k)2022 Revenue 211 ($107k) Expenses 171 ($83k) Net assets 365 ($89k)2023 Revenue 229 ($116k) Expenses 280 ($135k) Net assets 287 ($70k)2024 Revenue 123 ($62k) Expenses 132 ($64k) Net assets 282 ($69k)
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Revenue (123)Expenses (132)Net assets (282)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $168k to $106k (−37%).

$168k
$106k
$58k
$35k
$73k
$131k
$88k
$83k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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Listed65876555
Joined·+0+4+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·1111100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $19k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN FOUNDATION’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

NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

82% 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 NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN FOUNDATION.

40%
largest funder
83%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 52% — diversifying over time.

“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

66% of NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN FOUNDATION'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 $22k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.

CA
DE
AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve12.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN FOUNDATION

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN FOUNDATION?
NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,900 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $63,900 in grants to NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $25,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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