Alaska · Nonprofit
RIDING ON INSULIN
RIDING ON INSULIN (Alaska) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $288,717 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($232,581). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $338k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $289k
- Net assets
- $125k
What Riding on Insulin does
Mission
Riding on Insulin serves to empower, activate, and connect the global diabetes community through shared experience and action sports. The organization hosts action sports programs for kids, teens, and adults living with type 1 diabetes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Action sports camp: Riding on Insulin hosted 9 ski/-snowboard, surf and adventure camps for kids ages 7-17 with type 1 diabetes (t1d) and their siblings. Through those events, the organization served hundreds of individuals across the usa. The action sports camps empower kids to take good care of their t1d especially while doing exercise, activates the kids to learn a new skill (or improve an existing one), and connects all the attendees (kids, parents, and volunteers) with others who are just like them, connected to t1d, excited about action sports, and willing to network with others in the community. In preparation for the camps, Riding on Insulin created a leadership team of adult skiers and snowboarders living with t1d. Through our leadership training camp, our 80+ coaches have been trained to be leaders in the community.
$221,655 spent100% of program spendingAction sports camp: Riding on Insulin hosted 9 ski/-snowboard, surf and adventure camps for kids ages 7-17 with type 1 diabetes (t1d) and their siblings. Through those events, the organization served hundreds of individuals across the usa. The action sports camps empower kids to take good care of their t1d especially while doing exercise, activates the kids to learn a new skill (or improve an existing one), and connects all the attendees (kids, parents, and volunteers) with others who are just like them, connected to t1d, excited about action sports, and willing to network with others in the community. In preparation for the camps, Riding on Insulin created a leadership team of adult skiers and snowboarders living with t1d. Through our leadership training camp, our 80+ coaches have been trained to be leaders in the community.
$455 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $222,110.
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 2017 to 2018, from $321k to $179k (−44%).
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 82% · 2021 86% · 2022 82% · 2023 69% · 2024 76% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of RIDING ON INSULIN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $6k → $5k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 RIDING ON INSULIN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 18 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
RIDING ON INSULIN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 RIDING ON INSULIN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 58% · 2019 97% · 2020 87% · 2021 65% · 2022 96% · 2023 48% — 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
36% of RIDING ON INSULIN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
84% of RIDING ON INSULIN'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 Alaska, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $243k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
RIDING ON INSULIN's revenue fell 38% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RIDING ON INSULIN
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 Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RIDING ON INSULIN: 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 RIDING ON INSULIN?
- RIDING ON INSULIN (Alaska) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $288,717 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($232,581). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RIDING ON INSULIN have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $288,717 in grants to RIDING ON INSULIN, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIDING ON INSULIN?
- NEW VENTURE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $232,581 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIDING ON INSULIN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 18 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