California · Nonprofit
OUTDOOR AFRO
OUTDOOR AFRO (California) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,733,842 to it, the largest being WAVERLEY STREET FOUNDATION ($3,000,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 92
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Outdoor Afro does
Mission
Outdoor Afro is a national not-for-profit organization that celebrates and inspires black connections and leadership in nature. Our organization aims to empower more black people to enter into prominent leadership roles within the conservation movement, in outdoor companies, in education, and in public agencies charged with protecting our natural heritage. Outdoor Afro works to reconnect black americans to land, water, and wildlife while uplifting their roles as leaders and stewards of the natural world. From its humble beginning as a social enterprise and outdoor blog, today Outdoor Afro is a nationwide movement that has successfully observed and measured significant positive changes in outdoor engagement, media representation, and new professional leadership and affinity groups among more black people and black communities in outdoor recreation, education, and conservation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Outdoor Afro is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating and inspiring black connections and leadership in nature. Through a network of more than 100 certified volunteer leaders serving 70 u.s. Markets, Outdoor Afro provides outdoor trips, education, and community experiences reaching up to 24,000 participants annually, with an additional 200,000+ individuals engaging through digital content and online platforms, including 15,000+ app users. Since 2019, its signature making waves program has supported more than 7,000 new swimmers through swim scholarships provided in partnership with certified instructors to address disparities in water safety. Ninety-nine percent of trip participants report increased intent to recreate outdoors, advocate for outdoor spaces, and recommend participation to others, demonstrating measurable impact in expanding access and engagement in the outdoors.
$2,113,992 spentof which $1,275 as grants$15,163 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,113,992.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.1M to $7.1M (+72%).
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: 2020 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
106% of OUTDOOR AFRO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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
Rue Mapp
CEO & president
Board chair
Morgan Mccray
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $393k → $2.2M.
19 of 92 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 OUTDOOR AFRO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 92 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
OUTDOOR AFRO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
40% 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 OUTDOOR AFRO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 35% · 2019 40% · 2020 37% · 2021 17% · 2022 39% · 2023 57% — 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
31% of OUTDOOR AFRO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
67% of OUTDOOR AFRO's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
OUTDOOR AFRO holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding OUTDOOR AFRO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $125k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$120k
- Department of the Interior$5k
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 OUTDOOR AFRO
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OUTDOOR AFRO: 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 OUTDOOR AFRO?
- OUTDOOR AFRO (California) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,733,842 to it, the largest being WAVERLEY STREET FOUNDATION ($3,000,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OUTDOOR AFRO have?
- IRS filings report 92 organizations giving $11,733,842 in grants to OUTDOOR AFRO, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OUTDOOR AFRO?
- WAVERLEY STREET FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OUTDOOR AFRO 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 92 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