Utah · Nonprofit
National Parks Traveler
National Parks Traveler (Utah) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,640 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($64,597). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $183k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $122k
- Net assets
- $112k
What National Parks Traveler does
Mission
National Parks Traveler is the world's top-rated, editorially independent, nonprofit media organization dedicated to covering national parks and protected areas on a daily basis. The traveler's journalists work to inform the general public of environmental, scientific, and newsworthy developments surrounding, involving, and affecting these areas and their governing bodies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
National Parks Traveler is the only media organization focused specifically on editorial coverage of national parks and protected areas. It provides free coverage through its flagship website, nationalparkstraveler.org, a weekly podcast series, its Apple News feed, and its social media platforms. During FY24-25, traffic across all platforms dipped ~ 5.3% percent from the previous fiscal year. Looking across all platforms, Traveler's content generated ~ 1.84 million views from around the world. While the bulk of the editorial coverage stems from day-to-day events across the National Park System, the past year saw the rise of issues that deserved extended coverage. For example, how the National Park Service is struggling to deal with increasing visitation and decreasing staff, how climate change is impacting national parks and their natural resources, how the National Park Service is funded, how its employees are compensated, and biodiversity issues across the National Park System. During calendar Year 2025, traffic to National Parks Traveler content on its flagship website, Apple News feed, and podcast channel more than doubled, to 4.5 million readers and listeners. The National…
$180,535 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $180,535.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $55k to $143k (+158%).
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.
98% of National Parks Traveler’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Kurt J Repanshek
Director/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $25k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 Parks Traveler’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 Traveler leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 Traveler.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 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.
Where its funders are
63% of National Parks Traveler'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 $46k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Utah, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k 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
National Parks Traveler has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like National Parks Traveler
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 14 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for National Parks Traveler: 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 Traveler?
- National Parks Traveler (Utah) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,640 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($64,597). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does National Parks Traveler have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $121,640 in grants to National Parks Traveler, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of National Parks Traveler?
- THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $64,597 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like National Parks Traveler find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 2020–2025), 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