Connecticut · Nonprofit
WALKS FOUNDATION INC
WALKS FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,250 to it, the largest being The Vincent Dowling Family Foundation Inc ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2017
- $107k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Walks Foundation Inc does
Mission
Aid and assist the nonprofit independent secondary schools situated in hartford county in the state of connecticfut and thereby enlarge the scope of their educational objectives
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Scholarships of 13,500 awarded to each of the five member schools
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WALKS FOUNDATION INC’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
WALKS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
“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
WALKS FOUNDATION INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like WALKS FOUNDATION INC
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WALKS FOUNDATION INC?
- WALKS FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,250 to it, the largest being The Vincent Dowling Family Foundation Inc ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WALKS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $23,250 in grants to WALKS FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of WALKS FOUNDATION INC?
- The Vincent Dowling Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WALKS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 6 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