Wyoming · Nonprofit
NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL
NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL (Wyoming) receives grants from 206 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,380,780 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($4,106,911). 127 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $43M
- Funders on record
- 206
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $115M
What National Outdoor Leadership School does
Mission
The mission of the National Outdoor Leadership School is to be the leading source and teacher of wilderness skills and leadership that serve people and the environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The school offers an extensive curriculum of outdoor courses. The program is designed to provide leadership training and training in wilderness medicine and wilderness education to approximately 22,600 students.
$28,284,581 spentof which $1,402,307 as grants$31,073,085 earned by the program98% of program spendingThe school provides general information to the public regarding conservation and preservation of our natural resources through published materials and seminars.
$576,254 spent$267,581 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,860,835.
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 2020 to 2021, from $114M to $133M (+17%).
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.
21% of NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
N Stuart Harris
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 58 funders to 85 funders, grant income rose $988k → $3.6M.
43 of 206 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 206 funders by total. 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
NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
60% 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 NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 33% · 2019 12% · 2020 17% · 2021 16% · 2022 31% · 2023 32% — 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
43% of NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
60% of NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL'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 $9.5M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Wyoming, across 34 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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
NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL receives grants from 206 organizations whose IRS filings report $23M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $795k on record.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$488k
- Department of Defense$142k
- Department of Agriculture$91k
- Department of Commerce$54k
- 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 NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL
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 Wyoming
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- National Outdoor Leadership School Society · disregarded
- National Outdoor Leadership School Mexico Sc · disregarded
- Nandadevi Outdoor Leadership School · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: 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 NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL?
- NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL (Wyoming) receives grants from 206 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,380,780 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($4,106,911). 127 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 206 organizations giving $23,380,780 in grants to NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL, 127 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,106,911 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wyoming. 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 206 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing