Illinois · Nonprofit
Walls Turned Sideways NFP
Walls Turned Sideways NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,350 to it, the largest being Crossroads Fund Inc ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Walls Turned Sideways NFP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Woods Fund of Chicagoshared fundersportfolio match
- The Albert Pick Jr Fundshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Conant Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
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 Walls Turned Sideways NFP’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
Walls Turned Sideways NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% 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
83% 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 Walls Turned Sideways NFP.
“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 Walls Turned Sideways NFP's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Woods Fund of Chicagoshared fundersportfolio matchIL · backs 68 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Albert Pick Jr Fundshared funderslocalportfolio matchIL · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · funds 130 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Conant Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchIL · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Field Foundation of Illinoisshared fundersportfolio matchIL · backs 88 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Chicago Foundation for Womenshared funderslocalportfolio matchIL · backs 58 organizations that share your funders · funds 294 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Alphawood Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchIL · backs 23 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Humanities Council Incshared fundersportfolio matchIL · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Reva and David Logan Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchIL · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Wieboldt Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 23 organizations that share your funders
- Morrison Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carol Oppenheim and Jerome S Lamet Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Walls Turned Sideways NFP
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Walls Turned Sideways NFP: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Walls Turned Sideways NFP?
- Walls Turned Sideways NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,350 to it, the largest being Crossroads Fund Inc ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Walls Turned Sideways NFP have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $31,350 in grants to Walls Turned Sideways NFP.
- Who is the largest funder of Walls Turned Sideways NFP?
- Crossroads Fund Inc is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Walls Turned Sideways NFP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing