California · Nonprofit
WALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES
WALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,322,078 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,165,062). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Walden Environment Dba Walden Family Services does
Mission
Walden Environment Dba Walden Family Services ("walden") is a nonprofit organization formed in 1976 to provide advocacy, out-of-home placement, and treatment services for children unable to remain in their own homes due to abandonment, abuse, or neglect. Walden's goal is to help stabilize children, youth, and families through community-based prevention and intervention services. Walden is a therapeutic foster family and adoption agency engaged in the recruitment, certification, and training of foster and adoptive parents; the careful placement of foster and adoptive children; and housing and life skills programs for youth transitioning out of foster care. Walden's funding comes primarily from federal, state, and county welfare programs. Each year, walden provides services to roughly 1,478 children, youth, young adults, and families through an array of programs and services described here.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Transitional housing placement (thp) programs:walden is licensed to provide thpp nmd for foster youth (18-21) who have chosen to stay in extended foster care and provide thp plus programs for former foster youth (18-24) through county contracts. Walden provide housing and case management sevrices.unlike the nearly 65% of youth who leave foster care with no place to call home and no connection to the community, youth in walden' s transitional housing programs learn how to live on their own in the community, build relationships with mentors, and earn a college degree or learn a vocation. Walden proivde housing navigation services to unhoused youth through riverside county.
$11,634,450 spent73% of program spendingFoster & adoption services:children and youth enter foster care when their families are not able to safely care for them. Walden's licensed foster care and adoption programs enables infants and sibling groups, teens and children with development disabilities, emotional and behavioral challenges, and special healthcare needs to grow up knowing the love and sense of community that living in a family provides. Many children need addiitonal services and supports and our placed through waldens intensive services foster care program.
$3,277,823 spent21% of program spendingWalden proivde the following communtiy programs: first 5 san bernardino nurturing families program: providing parenting classes and case management to families throughout san bernarindo county.extended care/aftercare services: walden provides services to foster and former foster youth (18-21) throughout san bernadino county, including case managerment and employment and educational trainings.independent living skills (ils): walden provides weekly training classes for foster and probation youth for san bernardino county. Office of community partnerships & strategic communications (ocpsc) messaging grant: walden provides assistance to low-income and underserved communities to re-enforce efforts to protect the health and well-being of communities, and informational outreach programs as a trusted community messenger.mental health services: walden provide mental helath services to foster youth in riverside and san bernaridno counties. The clinics provide therapy, rehabilitation, and other appropriate services. Children and youth in need of mental health services in walden's other districts are referred to trusted community partners. Walden staffare preparing to provide family centered…
$1,033,468 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,945,741.
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 2024 to 2025, from $9.0M to $14M (+52%).
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: 2018 94% · 2020 94% · 2021 95% · 2022 92% · 2023 93% · 2024 94% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of WALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Teresa Stivers
CEO
Board chair
Leslie Levinson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $328k → $778k.
9 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 WALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
WALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 WALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 44% · 2019 55% · 2020 46% · 2021 69% · 2022 52% · 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.
How long its funders stay
67% of WALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES'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
67% of WALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES'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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
WALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like WALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Walden Project Homekey LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES?
- WALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,322,078 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,165,062). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $4,322,078 in grants to WALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,165,062 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES 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.
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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 36 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