California · Nonprofit
Backcountry Communities Thriving
Backcountry Communities Thriving (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $221,558 to it, the largest being LA84 FOUNDATION ($95,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundationshared funderslocal
- United Way of Northern Californiaportfolio match
- Tr Eriksen Trust Fund Co Shelly a Smith Trusteeportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $28k → $38k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Backcountry Communities Thriving’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 funders by total. 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
Backcountry Communities Thriving leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 Backcountry Communities Thriving.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 91% · 2023 84% — 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.
Where its funders are
96% of Backcountry Communities Thriving's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $87k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 70 organizations that share your funders · funds 157 organizations near you
- United Way of Northern Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tr Eriksen Trust Fund Co Shelly a Smith Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arthur R Dubs Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Joseph Hospital of Eurekaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Partnership Carson Cityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Desert Healthcare Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Santa Barbara Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Soboba Band of Luiseno Indiansportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Borrego Valley Endowment Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gilroy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Coverage & Health Initiativesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Backcountry Communities Thriving
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Backcountry Communities Thriving: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Backcountry Communities Thriving?
- Backcountry Communities Thriving (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $221,558 to it, the largest being LA84 FOUNDATION ($95,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Backcountry Communities Thriving have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $221,558 in grants to Backcountry Communities Thriving, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Backcountry Communities Thriving?
- LA84 FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Backcountry Communities Thriving find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing