California · Nonprofit
OUTDOOR OUTREACH
OUTDOOR OUTREACH (California) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,895,669 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($1,292,464). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 90
- Grants received
- $7.9M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Outdoor Outreach does
Mission
The mission of the Organization is to connect youth to the transformative power of the outdoors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Outdoor Outreach (the Organization) was organized in September 1999 under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for public and charitable purposes. The mission of the Organization is to connect youth to the transformative power of the outdoors. With every opportunity to hike, bike, kayak, or climb, the youth in our programs gain two things that greatly increase their chances of success:First, opportunities to share new experiences, explore their world, and discover what theyre capable of. And second, a meaningful connection with a support system of peers and mentors who believe in them and who show them that they matter.Positive Youth DevelopmentOur overarching purpose is to support critical needs of youth from under-resourced communities through meaningful outdoor experiences and mentorship. Outdoor Outreachs adventure-based program model provides youth with tools, support systems, and confidence to face down their unique challenges, thrive, and succeed.Workforce DevelopmentOur intensive, nature-based job training program connects participants with pathways to employment in the outdoor industry and beyond. This type of early work experience has been shown to help young…
$2,429,957 spent$468,307 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,429,957.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.5M to $1.2M (−50%).
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: 2017 12% · 2018 11% · 2019 13% · 2020 13% · 2021 23% · 2022 20% · 2023 32% · 2024 34% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of OUTDOOR OUTREACH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Sergio Langarica
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $348k → $1.0M.
14 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 OUTREACH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 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 OUTREACH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
49% 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 OUTREACH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 26% · 2019 34% · 2020 25% · 2021 21% · 2022 27% · 2023 20% — 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.
How long its funders stay
55% of OUTDOOR OUTREACH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
72% of OUTDOOR OUTREACH's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 OUTREACH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding OUTDOOR OUTREACH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $998k on record.
- Department of the Interior$998k
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 OUTREACH
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 OUTDOOR OUTREACH: 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 OUTREACH?
- OUTDOOR OUTREACH (California) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,895,669 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($1,292,464). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OUTDOOR OUTREACH have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $7,895,669 in grants to OUTDOOR OUTREACH, 53 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OUTDOOR OUTREACH?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,292,464 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OUTDOOR OUTREACH 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 90 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