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GRIZZLY PEAK FLYFISHERS

GRIZZLY PEAK FLYFISHERS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH E BETTELHEIM FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$4k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$33k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Grizzly Peak Flyfishers does

Mission

Grizzly peak fly fishers mission is to enhance the fly fishing experience through education, fly fishing outing fellowship, skills development, and environmental awareness.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.

Program

Grizzly peak fly fishers ("gpff") provides educational programs through speakers at monthly club meetings, participation in local events where flyfishing skills are demonstrated, and instructional programs during the year. All of these events are open to the public at no charge.gpff has a major fundraising dinner and auction each year which raises money for nonprofit organizations involved in conservation, ecology, and fishery protection and restoration. Gpff is able to give annual grants to about ten nonprofits as a result of its fundraising activities.in addition, casting for recovery for women who are breast cancer survivors is a major focus for gpff.gpff provides services to the trout in the classroom program conducted by the state of california, department of fish and game. Club members build aquariums for this educational program, which allows school children to follow the development of trout eggs into fry, which are then released into local waters. Club members act as a resource and support the teacher participants in the program.gpff teams with c.a.s.t. For kids foundation in organizing and hosting events that provide disabled and disadvantaged children with the…

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($13k) Expenses 100 ($8k) Net assets 100 ($23k)2018 Revenue 193 ($25k) Expenses 156 ($13k) Net assets 153 ($35k)2019 Revenue 77 ($10k) Expenses 138 ($12k) Net assets 151 ($35k)2020 Revenue 30 ($4k) Expenses 75 ($6k) Net assets 141 ($33k)
2017201820192020
Revenue (30)Expenses (75)Net assets (141)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $26k to $38k (+44%).

$26k
$38k
$38k
$35k
2017201820192020
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of GRIZZLY PEAK FLYFISHERS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,075 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
$12k
’18
−$1k
’19
−$2k
’20
03Who funds it

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 GRIZZLY PEAK FLYFISHERS’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 GRIZZLY PEAK FLYFISHERS's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GRIZZLY PEAK FLYFISHERS's revenue fell 70% between 2017 and 2020.

Operating margin−61% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−33% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,774 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2020

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds GRIZZLY PEAK FLYFISHERS?
GRIZZLY PEAK FLYFISHERS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH E BETTELHEIM FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GRIZZLY PEAK FLYFISHERS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to GRIZZLY PEAK FLYFISHERS.
Who is the largest funder of GRIZZLY PEAK FLYFISHERS?
ELIZABETH E BETTELHEIM FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GRIZZLY PEAK FLYFISHERS 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), 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