Washington · Nonprofit
RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS
RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $652,150 to it, the largest being GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($185,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $506k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $652k
- Net assets
- $143k
What Rite of Passage Journeys does
Mission
Offer intentional rite of passage experiences for youth and adults. Significant activities are wilderness and community programs including guided wilderness experiences leadership trainings and community workshops.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wilderness programs served 81 youth and 4 adults on one to three week trips.
$232,836 spentof which $39,580 as grants$171,327 earned by the program75% of program spendingCommunity school-year and leadership development programs served 119 adults and 18 youth through trainings retreats and workshops.
$77,537 spentof which $2,773 as grants$57,445 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $310,373.
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 $41k to $173k (+324%).
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 0% · 2021 19% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 8% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $19k → $203k.
8 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS’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
RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
64% 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 RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 51% · 2020 74% · 2021 68% · 2022 55% · 2023 47% — 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
50% of RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
64% of RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS'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 $235k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $418k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS has grown faster than half of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS: 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 RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS?
- RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $652,150 to it, the largest being GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($185,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $652,150 in grants to RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS?
- GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 11 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