Utah · Nonprofit
CAPITOL REEF NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION
CAPITOL REEF NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION (Utah) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,937 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ($18,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Capitol Reef Natural History Association does
Mission
Crnha is a nonprofit association created to aid and promote the historical, cultural, scientific, and educational activities of capitol reef national park and the national park service, through the donations of proceeds from the sale of publications and other interpretive materials made available to park visitors, the general public, other federal agencies and businesses. It also supports research, interpretation and conservation programs for capitol reef national park and the national park service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In support of the historical, cultural, scientific, interpretive and educational activities at capitol reef national park, crnha operates the book store in the visitor center, online catalog, and manages the gifford farmhouse, selling items that relate to the historic scene of fruita, utah in the 1930s.
$288,278 spent$1,240,407 earned by the program30% of program spendingAid to the national park service. Cash and in-kind grants and allocations to capital reef national park supplementing federal appropriations to the national park service.
$687,892 spentof which $447,617 as grants70% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $976,170.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.3M to $1.8M (+38%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of CAPITOL REEF NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Lee A Grundy
Executive director
Board chair
Burke Torgerson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $22k → $18k.
From the IRS filings of CAPITOL REEF NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION’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
CAPITOL REEF NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 CAPITOL REEF NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2021 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
CAPITOL REEF NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CAPITOL REEF NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CAPITOL REEF NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAPITOL REEF NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION: 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 CAPITOL REEF NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION?
- CAPITOL REEF NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION (Utah) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,937 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ($18,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAPITOL REEF NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $39,937 in grants to CAPITOL REEF NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of CAPITOL REEF NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION?
- COMMUNITY INITIATIVES is the largest funder on record, with $18,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAPITOL REEF NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing