New Mexico · Nonprofit
OUT OF EDEN WALK
OUT OF EDEN WALK (New Mexico) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,395 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($239,400). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $560k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $474k
- Net assets
- $221k
What Out of Eden Walk does
Mission
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and national geographic fellow paul salopek is retracing on foot the global migration of our ancestors in a 24,000-mile, multi-year odyssey that begins in ethiopia and ends in tierra del fuego.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, Out of Eden Walk advanced its mission of supporting pulitzer prize-winning journalist paul salopek's global storytelling journey and fostering educational and cultural engagement around that work. Key activities included:outreach and storytelling: paul salopek continued his 38,000-kilometer walking journey, reporting from 5,000 walked miles from south korea, japan, and continuing toward british columbia and alaska. His long-form journalism, photography, and multimedia dispatches connected global audiences to urgent issues of migration, climate change, cultural resilience, and human interconnectedness.educational programs: the nonprofit expanded its partnerships with schools and educators worldwide. Out of Eden Walk's curriculum resources, learning journeys, and professional development programs reached thousands of students, helping teachers bring global stories into classrooms through activities emphasizing slow journalism, empathy, and cross-cultural understanding. Work continued with harvard university's project zero and other collaborators to pilot new media literacy and storytelling initiatives.community impact and engagement: in 2024, Out of Eden Walk nonprofit…
$275,549 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $275,549.
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 $121k to $222k (+84%).
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 OUT OF EDEN WALK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
David Pond
President/chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $33k → $28k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 OUT OF EDEN WALK’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
OUT OF EDEN WALK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 OUT OF EDEN WALK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2019 100% · 2020 68% · 2021 45% · 2022 75% · 2023 96% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of OUT OF EDEN WALK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
80% of OUT OF EDEN WALK'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 $94k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New Mexico, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $381k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
OUT OF EDEN WALK's revenue grew 40% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like OUT OF EDEN WALK
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 New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OUT OF EDEN WALK: 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 OUT OF EDEN WALK?
- OUT OF EDEN WALK (New Mexico) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,395 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($239,400). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OUT OF EDEN WALK have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $474,395 in grants to OUT OF EDEN WALK, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OUT OF EDEN WALK?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $239,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OUT OF EDEN WALK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 11 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