Utah · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND
FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND (Utah) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $830,587 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($414,600). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $347k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $831k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Friends of Arches&Canyonlands Parks Bates Wilson Legacy Fund does
Mission
To inspire people to love and preserve our southeast utah national parks and monuments.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
As an official philanthropic partner of the national park service, friends of arches and canyonlands parks raises and deploys private funds in direct support of the southeast utah group of national park units arches and canyonlands national parks and natural bridges and hovenweep national monuments. The organization grants funds directly to the national park service and provides human capital to complete projects and programs on the parks' behalf. Program areas include visitor experience and safety, wildlife and nature conservation, cultural and historical preservation, ranger housing. The organization also invests directly in people as long-term stewards of these landscapes through youth education programs, volunteer stewardship initiatives, and community engagement activities both by operating these programs directly and by funding the national park service to deliver them. Together, these efforts reflect foacp's core belief that inspiring people to love these places is inseparable from the work of preserving them.
$209,977 spentof which $37,827 as grants$55,103 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $209,977.
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 2018 to 2019, from $148k to $1.2M (+692%).
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 7% · 2021 15% · 2022 18% · 2023 4% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $20k → $156k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND’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
FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 50% · 2019 37% · 2020 62% · 2021 42% · 2022 38% · 2023 66% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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
FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND has grown faster than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- Department of the Interior$20k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND?
- FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND (Utah) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $830,587 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($414,600). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $830,587 in grants to FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND?
- NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $414,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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