Illinois · Nonprofit
OPERATION WALK USA
OPERATION WALK USA (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,000 to it, the largest being BEAL FOUNDATION ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $275
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $351k
What Operation Walk USA does
Mission
To encourage and enable joint replacement surgeons to restore mobility and improve quality of life for uninsured and underinsured patients in the united states who suffer from disabling arthritis of the hip or knee.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Grants to enable and provide free hip or knee replacement surgeries for underinsured and uninsured patients who do not qualify for government assistance programs.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 2018 to 2019, from $431k to $387k (−10%).
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.
100% of OPERATION WALK USA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of OPERATION WALK USA’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
OPERATION WALK USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 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
OPERATION WALK USA draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
OPERATION WALK USA's revenue fell 88% between 2017 and 2020.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,155 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Organizations like OPERATION WALK USA
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
35%
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 OPERATION WALK USA: 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 OPERATION WALK USA?
- OPERATION WALK USA (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,000 to it, the largest being BEAL FOUNDATION ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPERATION WALK USA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $80,000 in grants to OPERATION WALK USA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERATION WALK USA?
- BEAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERATION WALK USA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 2 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