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 $633,487 to it, the largest being National Park Foundation ($218,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND has grown faster than half of the 4,260 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,260 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The May Family Foundationlocal
- National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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
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) — 6% 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 has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
41% 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; 50% 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 54% 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 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 20 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchUT · backs 68 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The May Family FoundationlocalDE · funds 21 organizations near you
- National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wander Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conservation Lands Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gaddis Usrf (Utah Ski Racers)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Smith and Wilcox Blue Skies Foundation Fka George and Oma Wilcox and Smith Founportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Park Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- T Beck Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jones Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wabisabi InclocalUT · funds 4 organizations near you
- The Colin D Fryer FoundationlocalUT · funds 6 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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 $633,487 to it, the largest being National Park Foundation ($218,000). 10 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 $633,487 in grants to FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND, 10 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 $218,000 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 20funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing