Kentucky · Nonprofit
WALDEN SCHOOL CORPORATION
WALDEN SCHOOL CORPORATION (Kentucky) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $405,469 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ($101,478). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $405k
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Walden School Corporation does
Mission
In partnership with families, walden school provides an educational environment - both academic and social - that fosters a lifelong enthusiasm for learning and challenges individual students to reach their full potential so they may flourish in a diverse and changing world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Salaries, benefits and taxes paid for employees in academic and auxilary program services.
$3,067,667 spent80% of program spendingCafeteria expenses for the nurishment of students in auxillary program services.
$413,152 spent11% of program spendingOther expenses for academic and auxillary program services.
$236,351 spent6% of program spendingSupplies for academic and auxillary program services.
$108,795 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,825,965.
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 $5.8M to $7.6M (+30%).
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: 2021 6% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of WALDEN SCHOOL CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 2 funders, grant income fell $51k → $15k.
8 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 SCHOOL CORPORATION’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
WALDEN SCHOOL CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
90% 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 SCHOOL CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 91% · 2020 76% · 2021 30% · 2022 80% · 2023 97% — 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
36% of WALDEN SCHOOL CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
71% of WALDEN SCHOOL CORPORATION'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 $119k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $286k 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
WALDEN SCHOOL CORPORATION's revenue grew 49% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WALDEN SCHOOL CORPORATION
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WALDEN SCHOOL CORPORATION?
- WALDEN SCHOOL CORPORATION (Kentucky) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $405,469 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ($101,478). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WALDEN SCHOOL CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $405,469 in grants to WALDEN SCHOOL CORPORATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WALDEN SCHOOL CORPORATION?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC is the largest funder on record, with $101,478 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WALDEN SCHOOL CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 20 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