Operation Walk Chicago

Analysis

Operation Walk Chicago is a registered charity in United States, based in Buffalo Grove, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Operation Walk Chicago reported income of $738k and spending of $596k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $395k to $738k (+87%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 175%. Over the whole period it spent 76% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Operation Walk Chicago sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include A Hope for Autism Foundation ($738k), Fairview Foundation ($738k) and Tavarua Medical Rehabilitation Services ($738k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 77% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $31k, net assets of $1.2m.