California · Nonprofit
JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION
JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $398,805 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($209,275). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $399k
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Joshua Tree National Park Association does
Mission
Joshua Tree National Park Association works in partnership with joshua tree national park to help in its achievement of programming goals in education, interpretation, scientific and historic research activities via operation of 5 visitor center/park stores; 2 education programs (desert institute and discoverjtree) and membership and fundraising efforts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Joshua Tree National Park Association (jtnpa) is a private, nonprofit corporation organized and operating under the laws of the state of california. It is a 'cooperating association', 'friends group', and 'concessionaire' as defined in regulations of the national park service (nps) of the department of the interior, operating in a partnership with the nps with respect to its joshua tree national park. The organization assists the nps in its achievement of programming goals in education, interpretation, scientific and historic research activities. We achieve this mission via a number of different programs, the primary of which is the operation of 5 (five) visitor center/park stores and a related online retail outlet. Revenues are generated via the sales of goods and safety items, and these revenues are used to provide direct financial aid to joshua tree national park to help support park programs such as the historic keys ranch tours, tortoise telemetry and bighorn sheep collaring programs, and field trips for elementary students. Additionally, jtnpa staff work in conjunction with park rangers and volunteers at the visitor centers to provide safety and recreational information to…
$3,362,005 spentof which $646,090 as grants$4,297,830 earned by the program82% of program spendingThe desert institute is operated by Joshua Tree National Park Association (jtnpa) and serves as an extension of joshua tree national park's educational program. It offers classes in cultural history, natural science, survival skills, desert naturalist studies, women's programs, citizen science, and creative arts. All programs are taught by expert instructors who provide a personal learning experience on these educational adventures. The desert institute is committed to providing a rich, inclusive learning environment aimed at inpsiring people of all ages and backgrounds to appreciate and preserve cultural resources and natural places associated with joshua tree national park and surrounding public lands. Discover jtree is jtnpa's newest program. Entirely grant-funded, this program focuses on in school and field trip programming for tk-12th grade students in the morongo basin, as well as providing park related after school programming for the morongo unified school district via their elop program.
$348,781 spent$43,679 earned by the program8% of program spendingThe development program serves as the membership arm of the Joshua Tree National Park Association and a fundraising entity for joshua tree national park. The program achieves its goals via a variety of methods, including special events, membership drives, donation boxes, private donations, and memoranda of intent. An annual work plan is authored by park personnel each fiscal year to delineate park needs and funding goals for that year. Programs funded range from wildlife research and preservation to the junior ranger program to the desert plant restoration program.
$410,479 spent$92,778 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,121,265.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.9M to $4.7M (+21%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Jacqueline Guevara
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $31k → $151k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK 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.
How concentrated its funding is
JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 100% · 2019 80% · 2020 100% · 2022 75% · 2023 60% — diversifying over time.
“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
0% of JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 18% 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
JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $113k 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
JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- Department of the Interior$10k
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 JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK 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.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION?
- JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $398,805 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($209,275). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $398,805 in grants to JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $209,275 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK 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.
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 11 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