Utah · Nonprofit
OPERATION WALK UTAH
OPERATION WALK UTAH (Utah) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $559,948 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($325,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $453k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $560k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Operation Walk Utah does
Mission
Provides free surgical treatment for patients in developing countries (and sometimes in the united states) that have no access to life-improving care for arthritis and other debilitating bone and joint conditions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Performed hip and knee replacement surgeries at no cost to select patients based on the severity of their condition and the immediate need to surgical treatment. Raised funds for research projects to further advancement in orthopedics and hip and knee replacements.
$479,758 spentof which $50,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $479,758.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.4M to $1.8M (+24%).
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 UTAH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% 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 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $20k → $67k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $100k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Aaron a Hofmann Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money OPERATION WALK UTAH raised.
From the IRS filings of OPERATION WALK UTAH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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 UTAH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 OPERATION WALK UTAH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 87% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 45% — 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
89% of OPERATION WALK UTAH'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 $63k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $497k 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
OPERATION WALK UTAH is better cushioned than half of the 8,464 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like OPERATION WALK UTAH
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Aaron a Hofmann Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPERATION WALK UTAH: 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 UTAH?
- OPERATION WALK UTAH (Utah) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $559,948 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($325,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OPERATION WALK UTAH have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $559,948 in grants to OPERATION WALK UTAH, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERATION WALK UTAH?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $325,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERATION WALK UTAH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing