California · Nonprofit
HEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES
HEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,723 to it, the largest being SF Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Pride Celebration Cmte ($19,261). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $181k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $53k
- Net assets
- $43k
What Healing Waters Wilderness Adventures does
Mission
Healing Waters seeks to enrich lives and empower people by providing safe, inclusive, and nonjudgmental outdoor wilderness experiences supported by a community of passionate volunteers. Founded in 1996 to serve those affected by HIV and AIDS, Healing Waters mission is to inspire and enrich the lives of people impacted by chronic health, economic, or social disadvantage. To provide access to the healing properties of nature through wilderness experiences in a safe, supportive, and nonjudgmental environment. And to foster a working community among participants and volunteers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
General Programs: Community events and activities such as creek clean ups, working the booth at SF Pride, and other community building activities for Healing Waters Volunteers.
$12,724 spent15% of program spendingCamping & rafting trips: Held eleven weekend camping trips, three mid-week youth trips, and four one-day mid week trips. Serving a total of 430 participants from youth to adults. Participants served are living or dealing with chronic illness and or in recovery. Trips are designed provide a healing environment through nature activities. Trips are led by Healing Waters volunteers. Healing Waters provides rafting and camping supplies, meals and transportation.
$61,417 spent74% of program spendingHeld two, two-day swift water rescue trainings for 28 river guides. All river guides were certified through the training. Held three CPR and first aide trainings for 36 future Healing Waters volunteers that would allow them to be cook, hosts or river guides.
$8,655 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $82,796.
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 2021 to 2022, from $37k to $9k (−77%).
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.
62% of HEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $94.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 HEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES’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
HEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 HEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 99% · 2019 69% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of HEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
HEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $53k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES
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 HEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES: 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 HEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES?
- HEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,723 to it, the largest being SF Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Pride Celebration Cmte ($19,261). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $52,723 in grants to HEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES?
- SF Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Pride Celebration Cmte is the largest funder on record, with $19,261 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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