Massachusetts · Nonprofit
WALKING OUR TALK
WALKING OUR TALK (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,251 to it, the largest being BERKSHIRE BANK FOUNDATION INC ($1,725). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $39k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Walking Our Talk does
Mission
Walking Our Talk envisions an ever-widening culture of trust, care, and connection rippling out from our women's circle practice, restoring the well-being of self, community and the world.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Walking Our Talk hosts, facilitates and develops a curriculum of 8 week circles that creates a safe and generative container in with each participant can personally flourish as they experience a new culture of strong, positive and supportive relationships with their community and beyond. We believe this change ripples out into the global community to create a new culture of trust, care, connection and solidarity.
$28,029 spentof which $4,360 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,029.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Deborah DeMarche Carusone
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5 → $741.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 WALKING OUR TALK’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
WALKING OUR TALK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of WALKING OUR TALK's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WALKING OUR TALK's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,986 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WALKING OUR TALK: 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 WALKING OUR TALK?
- WALKING OUR TALK (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,251 to it, the largest being BERKSHIRE BANK FOUNDATION INC ($1,725). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WALKING OUR TALK have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $3,251 in grants to WALKING OUR TALK, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WALKING OUR TALK?
- BERKSHIRE BANK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,725 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WALKING OUR TALK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 3 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