Walking with Anthony
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274117859
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8669543344
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $505,722
- Expenses
- $325,027
- Assets
- $354,460
- Liabilities
- $13,708
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICKI NOLAN PURCELL (PRESIDENT)
- Laurie Petok (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- MICKI NOLAN PURCELL (PRESIDENT)
- Laurie Petok (Vice-President)
- KAREN WEST (BOARD OFFICER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Walking with anthonys mission is to change recovery outcomes for victims of spinal cord injuries by funding rehabilitation centers and research, raise public awareness of the condition, and provide financial assistance to spinal cord injury victims.
What it reported doing in 2024
Walking with anthonys (wwas) mission is to forever change the recovery outcome of spinal cord injury (sci), currently perceived as unchangeable. In addition to educating the public to raise awareness of the impact of spinal cord injury, walking with anthony will raise funds to expand rehabilitation centers, support research relating to spinal cord injury rehabilitation and, most importantly, provide financial assistance to spinal cord injury victims that do not have the funds to pay for this expensive recovery so that many may have the opportunity to get stronger, live healthier, and learn to walk again. In the current year the organization provided various grants to victims of sci that are in financial need in the amount of $157,822.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 67% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 66
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.5%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $38.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35.7%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 57.5% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $288K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 24 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.