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WALKING STRONG INC

EIN 47-1648097 WOODLAND HLS, CA

Revenue 2024
$279,221
Expenses 2024
$228,989

Program services were 80.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
G70
Classification
1000
Street
6040 ELBA PL

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

OUR MISSION IS TO EMPOWER INDIVIDUALS AFFECTED BY DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY AND THEIR FAMILIES. WE ARE COMMITTED TO PROVIDING COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT, FUNDING CUTTING-EDGE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, AND BUILDING A STRONG AND COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITY.

  • WALKING STRONG HELPS DUCHENNE FAMILIES WITH THEIR OVER-BEARING MEDICAL NEEDS THAT ARE MOST OFTEN NOT COVERED BY INSURANCE. TO DATE, WE HAVE PROVIDED FAMILIES WITH LIFE-CHANGING ITEMS SUCH AS A HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE VAN, SERVICE DOGS, HOYER LIFTS,IN-HOME RAMPS, ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES, MEDICAL TRAVEL EXPENSES, AND ON-LINE TRAINING COURSES FOR OLDER DUCHENNE TEENS TO HELP PROVIDE THEM WITH A CAREER.

    Expenses $183,280 · Grants $104,306

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • VALERIE PAPPAS LLAURO

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $24,000
    From this org
    $24,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • LAURIE ANAST

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ROBB FRIEDMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JORGE LLAURO

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DEAN MASSERMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • WILLIAM STRAVROPOULOS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • PETER ANSALDI

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $279,221
    Expenses
    $228,989
    Contributions
    $168,158
    Grants paid
    $104,306
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $85,829
    Expenses
    $261,345
    Contributions
    $82,666
    Grants paid
    $141,788
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $414,435
    Expenses
    $131,192
    Contributions
    $286,352
    Grants paid
    $64,498
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $495,937
    Expenses
    $217,746
    Contributions
    $495,937
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $69,929
    Expenses
    $117,629
    Assets (EOY)
    $114,761

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $48,939
    Expenses
    $40,060
    Assets (EOY)
    $162,461

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $282,587
    Expenses
    $218,143
    Assets (EOY)
    $343,120

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $250,641
    Expenses
    $167,823
    Assets (EOY)
    $278,676

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $147,213
    Expenses
    $115,869
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $4,721
    Expenses
    $909
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.