Michigan · Nonprofit
RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION
RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,022,962 to it, the largest being Lear Corporation Charitable Foundation ($150,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $688k
What Rhonda Walker Foundation does
Mission
To empower inner-city teen girls towards becoming strong, confident, and moral future leaders
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mentoring and community outreach - the foundation understands that it is important that teens have positive role models in adults with whom they can discuss their challenges, successes, and future goals. Each year, the foundation matches teens with a carefully screened professional mentor who provides support and critical guidance. Although the foundation asks its volunteer mentors to commit for one year, the bond becomes strong enough so that they stay to see their mentee through high school. It is this spirit of giving back that the foundation strives to instill in every teen who is a part of the "girls into women" program. See schedule o for additional information about this program.through the foundation's community service and outreach programs, these teens volunteer at local charities, work with the homeless, create gifts for ailing children, and visit elders in nursing homes.
$178,697 spent$4,500 earned by the program20% of program spendingCollege prep program - with the alarming achievement rates in most public schools, the foundation is committed to ensuring that the teens it serves are college-ready upon graduating from high school. The foundation's college prep program ensures that every teen has access to year-round tutoring in all subjects and act/sat preparation courses through a partnership with "enact your future". College tours take the teens the foundation serves not only across the state but also across the country to tour historically black colleges and universities. The foundation strives to provide the teens it serves with the tools necessary to make a smooth and successful transition from high school to college through financial aid seminars, workshops on the college application process, mentoring, and coaching.
$482,377 spent53% of program spendingPersonal development program - the foundation believes that an empowered and successful young woman has been exposed to a wide variety of life experiences, and also has been given the tools to navigate through a myriad of social and professional environments. The foundation's personal development programs include three weekend retreats: 24-hour girl talk, camp I can, and a bi-annual winter wonderland retreat. Each of these experiences is designed to help the teens the foundation serves to face and overcome challenges, to practice team building as well as self-determination, and to support and encourage each other.
$243,234 spent27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $904,308.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.0M to $713k (−32%).
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 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Ruselda Villanueva Johnson
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Lloyd Banks
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 broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $53k → $31k.
10 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
55% 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 RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 49% · 2019 37% · 2020 55% · 2021 31% · 2022 51% · 2023 44% — 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.
How long its funders stay
15% of RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
90% of RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $501k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION: 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 RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION?
- RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,022,962 to it, the largest being Lear Corporation Charitable Foundation ($150,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,022,962 in grants to RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION?
- Lear Corporation Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 31 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