California · Nonprofit
Renewal Retreats
Renewal Retreats (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $533,000 to it, the largest being WALKER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($408,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $188k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $533k
- Net assets
- $29k
What Renewal Retreats does
Mission
Presentation of workshops and retreats to parents and children, couples and partners, young women and women with cancer to educate the participants on how to form healthy relationships and lead wholesome, integrated lives within their communities, Equine Guided Personal Growth & Wellness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Renewal Retreats held three 2-day events, a popular repeat program. Certain participants attended with no charge or at a discounted rate. The retreat was for people living with cancer: men, women, family, partners & friends. Participants learned tools for creating a healthy lifestyle in a supportive community of experts: guided imagery & movement for stress reduction, how to use and prepare a nutritious cancer-fighting culinary toolkit, the components of a well-balanced, safe & effective exercise program to optimize health, minimize symptoms and side effects. The workshop leaders were conducted by: Rebecca Katz, a nationally recognized chef and educator; Carol Augustus, mind-body consultant and coach; Patricia Newmann, a nationally recognized professional coach and group facilitator; Jillian Shay, cancer & exercise specialist. There were 4 workshops over the course of 2 days: 1) 30 participants; 2) 25 participants; 3) 21 participants
$50,641 spent38% of program spendingRenewal Retreats held three 2-day events: 1) 30 women; 2) 20 women; 3) 24 women; This is a popular repeat program, which we have continued to expand, centered on yoga, meditation, stress reduction, spiritual awareness and life management for women to experience transformation. Certain participants attended at discounted rates.
$60,936 spent46% of program spendingRenewal Retreats continued the MedaFit program promoting exercise for people living with serious and chronic health conditions. It connects patients and their medical teams to health clubs and other exercise programs with the goal of promoting exercise to health. We have exercise counselors at UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center in San Francisco, CA providing a free consultation to all cancer patients, as well as at Marin General in Greenbrae, CA. In partnership with Five Points Fitness in Corte Madera, CA and Rolling Hills Club in Novato, CA, we offered 5 indoor classes and outdoor classes per week most weeks averaging 15-20 people per class, offering most participants discounted rates or no charge.
$21,455 spent16% of program spendingRenewal Retreats Wellness on Demand program which began in 2021 continued to expand in 2024. Renewal Retreats offers virtual retreats and a Free Online Directory of Health & Wellness recommended providers, specifically for the 55+ community in NorCal. We have continued developing the programs & reaching out to providers. The directory includes provider specialties & bios, calendar of events, videos, in-depth profiles, blogs, expert advice & resources, support groups and more.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $133,032.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $21k to $55k (+162%).
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.
37% of Renewal Retreats’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $55k → $82k.
From the IRS filings of Renewal Retreats’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
Renewal Retreats leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 94% · 2019 91% · 2020 91% · 2021 93% · 2022 72% · 2023 61% — 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
Renewal Retreats draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
Renewal Retreats's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Renewal Retreats
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.
Public support
69%
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 Renewal Retreats: 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 Renewal Retreats?
- Renewal Retreats (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $533,000 to it, the largest being WALKER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($408,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Renewal Retreats have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $533,000 in grants to Renewal Retreats, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Renewal Retreats?
- WALKER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $408,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Renewal Retreats 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 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