Wyoming · Nonprofit
NATIONAL PARKS FRIENDS ALLIANCE
NATIONAL PARKS FRIENDS ALLIANCE (Wyoming) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,212,543 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($3,206,543). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What National Parks Friends Alliance does
Mission
To enhance support for national park sites by creating a space for collaboration creativity and support of philanthropic partnerships between the national park service and their official non profits
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The national park friends alliance hosts an annual fall gathering in collaboration with the national park service and the national park foundation. The 2025 meeting took place september 15-17 in st. Louis, mo. We had 324 philantropic partner and national park leaders at this event for networking field trips plenary and breakout sessions. The session topics included best practices in fundraising philanthropic leadership skills innovative partnership case studies program updates from the national park service and national park foundation and collaboration models for public private partnership.
$125,954 spent$114,450 earned by the program29% of program spending4b. The national park friends alliance provides a membership program for philanthropic partners of the national park service. Program benefits include monthly webinars, a spring virtual event that includes keynotes updates and programmatic best practices in partnership philanthropy, and organization practices access to a web networking platform to collaborate with and receive peer support from other members access to special affinity groups organized by topic or organization size and partnership support. There are 150 active members.
$302,510 spent$7,082 earned by the program71% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $428,464.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $246k to $2.8M (+1052%).
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: 2023 4% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of NATIONAL PARKS FRIENDS ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Ryan Mcclure
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 NATIONAL PARKS FRIENDS ALLIANCE’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
NATIONAL PARKS FRIENDS ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 PARKS FRIENDS ALLIANCE.
“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
NATIONAL PARKS FRIENDS ALLIANCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wyoming, across 2 states in all.
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.
Against its field
NATIONAL PARKS FRIENDS ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL PARKS FRIENDS ALLIANCE
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
82% 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL PARKS FRIENDS ALLIANCE: 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 PARKS FRIENDS ALLIANCE?
- NATIONAL PARKS FRIENDS ALLIANCE (Wyoming) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,212,543 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($3,206,543). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL PARKS FRIENDS ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,212,543 in grants to NATIONAL PARKS FRIENDS ALLIANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL PARKS FRIENDS ALLIANCE?
- NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,206,543 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL PARKS FRIENDS ALLIANCE 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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