California · Nonprofit
Far West Nordic Ski Education Association
Far West Nordic Ski Education Association (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $86 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($86). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $117k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $86
- Net assets
- $119k
What Far West Nordic Ski Education Association does
Mission
The Far West Nordic Ski Education Association believes competitive cross-country skiing offers great benefits to the community and to individuals of all ages and abilities. As a division of the United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA), our mission is to promote, develop, and expand cross-country (Nordic) racing within the USSA Far West Region (California, Nevada, and Arizona). We accomplish this mission by working with ski clubs, ski areas, and directly with our membership of individuals and families in the following manner: Promoting and supporting XC ski clubs, ski venues, coaching, and race development within the Far West Region. Attracting new individuals and groups to XC racing. Developing junior, senior, and masters athletes to their full potential through education and world-class coaching.Providing financial support to high school junior ski programs and through individual grants and scholarships. Selecting junior, senior, and masters regional teams and support member
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Association provides cross-country ski education, coaching, training and race development skills to junior skiers (under 20 years of age) from the Truckee, Lake Tahoe and surrounding area. This has been accomplished through assistance to local junior and high school programs along with the issuance of grants and scholarships to deserving junior skiers. Far West has also helped to field regional junior teams that compete at the national and international levels.
$76,843 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $76,843.
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 2025 to 2026, from $82k to $119k (+46%).
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.
4% of Far West Nordic Ski Education Association’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $23 → $17.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Far West Nordic Ski Education 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Far West Nordic Ski Education Association'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Far West Nordic Ski Education Association runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 442 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 442 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like Far West Nordic Ski Education 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 Far West Nordic Ski Education 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 Far West Nordic Ski Education Association?
- Far West Nordic Ski Education Association (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $86 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($86). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Far West Nordic Ski Education Association have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $86 in grants to Far West Nordic Ski Education Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Far West Nordic Ski Education Association?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $86 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Far West Nordic Ski Education Association 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), 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