Mending Walls
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923115007
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Henrico, VA, USA
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $62,427
- Expenses
- $177,402
- Assets
- $20,428
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tracy Baylor (President)
- Kim McLeod (Vice President)
- Taekia Glass (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Tracy Baylor (President)
- Kim McLeod (Vice President)
- Katrina Kat Hecksher (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through collaborative, community-engaged art, Mending Walls aims to advance social justice by connecting community members from different backgrounds in conversation to foster empathy, understanding, and healing.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community Arts Education and Cultural Programming The organization provided arts education and cultural programming through educational workshops, guided mural walking tours, and documentary screenings designed to promote awareness of community history, cultural expression, and the role of public art in community development. These programs created opportunities for residents, students, and visitors to learn about local artists and the cultural significance of public art. During the year, approximately 3000 individuals participated in these educational and engagement activities. These programs furthered the organizations charitable and educational mission by expanding public access to arts education and fostering community dialogue around culture and creativity. 2. Community Public Art and Mural Projects The organization completed two community-based public murals in collaboration with local artists and community members. The projects included organized community paint days and facilitated discussions that encouraged residents to contribute to the artistic process and share perspectives about community identity and cultural storytelling. Approximately 60 individuals directly participated in the mural creation activities. The completed murals serve as permanent public art installations accessible to the public and are estimated to reach over 5,000 community members and visitors through ongoing public viewing. These projects support the organizations mission by increasing access to public art and enhancing community spaces. 3. Strategic Planning and Organizational Capacity Building The organization undertook a comprehensive strategic planning process to develop a 2026 to 2028 strategic plan and fundraising strategy to support program sustainability and growth. The process included evaluating prior program outcomes, identifying community needs, and establishing priorities for future programming, partnerships, and resource development. This initiative strengthened the organizations operational capacity and established a long term framework to expand community arts programming and educational initiatives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 48.4%; rating input score 48
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -184.2%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 55.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -78.9% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -147.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 48.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $86K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.