Alabama · Nonprofit
WALK OF CHAMPIONS
WALK OF CHAMPIONS (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $752,500 to it, the largest being University Impact ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $35k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $753k
- Net assets
- $0
What Walk of Champions does
Mission
Walk of Champions (the organization') is an alabama nonprofit corporation formed for charitable and educational purposes under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code ('code') to promote the values of volunteerism and community engagement and strengthen local community charitable organizations and initiatives. Specifically, the organization will provide educational opportunities and training for college level student athletes to learn about community and civic engagement and leverage their name, image, and likeness ('nil') to promote local charitable causes and bring much-needed public awareness and attention to under-served local community organizations and initiatives.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
In 2026, Walk of Champions ceased operation and distributed its assets according to its organizational documents.
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2025 to 2026, from $909k to $0 (−100%).
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.
0% of WALK OF CHAMPIONS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 WALK OF CHAMPIONS’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
WALK OF CHAMPIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 WALK OF CHAMPIONS.
“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
95% of WALK OF CHAMPIONS'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 $40k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Alabama, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $713k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
WALK OF CHAMPIONS's revenue fell 98% between 2023 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 280 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like WALK OF CHAMPIONS
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WALK OF CHAMPIONS: 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 WALK OF CHAMPIONS?
- WALK OF CHAMPIONS (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $752,500 to it, the largest being University Impact ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WALK OF CHAMPIONS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $752,500 in grants to WALK OF CHAMPIONS.
- Who is the largest funder of WALK OF CHAMPIONS?
- University Impact is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WALK OF CHAMPIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2023–2026), and the filings of 4 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