California · Nonprofit
Dawson's Peak
Dawson's Peak (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $226,300 to it, the largest being MONSTER ENERGY CARES ($226,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $180k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $226k
- Net assets
- $-36089
What Dawson's Peak does
Mission
To raise awareness of charities serving veterans by allowing individuals to give back to those that have made personal sacrifices for their freedom and opportunity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Dawson's Peak continued its mission to sponsor athletes successfully completing physical expeditions to enable viewers to draw parallels between themselves and the organization's athletes.
$0 spentDawson's Peak continued to raise resources and awareness for their project Seven for Soldiers partners.
$0 spentDawson's Peak furthered their mission through public and private speaking and education opportunities aimed at helping individuals live lives with greater purpose and meaning.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
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.
100% of Dawson's Peak’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
James Dawson
Chief Executive Officer / Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $75k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of Dawson's Peak’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
100% of Dawson's Peak's grant income comes from California funders.
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
Dawson's Peak runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Dawson's Peak
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.
Public support
79%
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 Dawson's Peak: 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 Dawson's Peak?
- Dawson's Peak (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $226,300 to it, the largest being MONSTER ENERGY CARES ($226,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dawson's Peak have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $226,300 in grants to Dawson's Peak, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dawson's Peak?
- MONSTER ENERGY CARES is the largest funder on record, with $226,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dawson's Peak 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), 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