California · Nonprofit
Davis Forest School
Davis Forest School (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being SWANTZ FAMILY FOUNDATION ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $545k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $161k
What Davis Forest School does
Mission
Davis Forest School (DFS) is an outdoor education and nature play organization building community through land-based programming.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Homeschool and After School Programs: provide weekly outdoor nature-based learning for children ages 5-12. These programs are designed to support both families who have chosen alternative education paths and children who are in traditional schools, and are centered on child-led exploration, naturalist studies, and land stewardship practices. Accomplishments include 1. served approximately 200 children across 3 locations in Davis and Sacramento 2. offered 285 classes throughout the academic year 3. expanded access through tuition assistance, with 35 of students receiving financial aid or reparations and 4. introduced new curriculum themes aligned with environmental literacy and social-emotional development.
$438,789 spent100% of program spendingSummer Camp Program: provides multi-week, drop-off outdoor programming for children ages 5-12. It blends classic camp activities with nature immersion, creek play, naturalist skills, and creative projects. Accomplishments include 1. served over 290 children across 3 locations in Davis & Sacramento 2. ran for 10 weeks, with a full roster and returning families and 3. employed a team of paid teen interns ages 14-17 from our leadership pipeline.
Little Coyotes Forest Kinder: is our all-outdoor preschool/kindergarten program for children ages 3-6. It offers gentle, play-based early childhood education rooted in seasonal rhythms, sensory exploration, and land connection. Accomplishments include 1. launched in early Fall 2024, now operating 5 days/week across 2 locations 2. enrolled 35 children in our first year and 3. created foundational nature routines that support school readiness, confidence, and well-being.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $438,789.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $48k to $131k (+174%).
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: 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of Davis Forest School’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Davis Forest School’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.
Where its funders are
Davis Forest School draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
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
Davis Forest School has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Davis Forest School
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Davis Forest School: 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 Davis Forest School?
- Davis Forest School (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being SWANTZ FAMILY FOUNDATION ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Davis Forest School have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,000 in grants to Davis Forest School, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Davis Forest School?
- SWANTZ FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Davis Forest School 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.
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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 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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