California · Nonprofit
LA WYLD
LA WYLD (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,500 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($85,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2019
- $583
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $142k
- Net assets
- $4k
What La Wyld does
Mission
Our mission is to connect urban youth with wilderness education experiences that foster personal growth..We further our purposes by conducting the following two outdoor education program activities: .1. Our flagship program model empowers urban youth through mentorship by community members and guides using nature as a platform for restoration, bonding, and transformation. We engage with youth throughout middle school. We collaborate with agencies that do gardening to link students to nature in a hands on manner. We then help these youth make a farm to forest connection. The natural restoration and bonding that takes place on the hikes creates an interest the environment and provides personal growth and transformation. .2. For our customized wilderness outings program, we work with charitable and other organizations to provide reduced-cost excursions for their youth or clientele.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
LA WYLD Corp. moved all of its programming underneath to a fiscal sponsor, Community Partners. For more information about our programs being operated by Community Partners, please go to https://communitypartners.org/project/wylderness-youth-leadership-diversity or www.wyld.org
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $29k to $4k (−86%).
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.
100% of LA WYLD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $91k → $500.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 LA WYLD’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
LA WYLD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% 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 LA WYLD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 63% · 2019 95% · 2020 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
64% of LA WYLD's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $52k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LA WYLD's revenue fell 98% between 2018 and 2019.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,858 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2019
Organizations like LA WYLD
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
68%
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 LA WYLD: 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 LA WYLD?
- LA WYLD (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,500 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($85,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LA WYLD have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $141,500 in grants to LA WYLD, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LA WYLD?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LA WYLD 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 FY2019 (financials across 2018–2019), and the filings of 4 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