Illinois · Nonprofit
ALTAR FLY FISHING
ALTAR FLY FISHING (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $732,324 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($299,185). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $679k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $732k
- Net assets
- $246k
What Altar Fly Fishing does
Mission
Altar Fly Fishing merges the christian faith and fly fishing in retreats. Retreats are open to anyone who is curious about altar's mission and ministry, seeking to read the waters of life and create new intentionality in your daily rhythms, and desire having space to decompress, refresh, and share in a fishing adventure. The retreats help to discover the secrets of a thriving life, join in meaningful, life-shaping conversations, and enjoy great food as you experience the art and beauty of fly fishing.altar retreats create environments that are refreshing and good for your soul. On each retreat we incorporate a combination of teaching, spiritual practices, solitude and reflection, meaningful conversations and processing, and fly fishing (which helps keep us humble while experiencing the power of god's creation). Add to all this good food, campfires, and time for personal reflection, you have a full and life-shaping experience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Retreats - fly fishing events
$382,325 spent$317,331 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $382,325.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $82k to $190k (+131%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
53% of ALTAR FLY FISHING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $3k → $169k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALTAR FLY FISHING’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
ALTAR FLY FISHING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 ALTAR FLY FISHING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 100% · 2022 37% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
100% of ALTAR FLY FISHING's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 81% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
57% of ALTAR FLY FISHING's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $311k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $421k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
ALTAR FLY FISHING has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ALTAR FLY FISHING
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 ALTAR FLY FISHING: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALTAR FLY FISHING?
- ALTAR FLY FISHING (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $732,324 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($299,185). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALTAR FLY FISHING have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $732,324 in grants to ALTAR FLY FISHING, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALTAR FLY FISHING?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $299,185 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALTAR FLY FISHING 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 16 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing