California · Nonprofit
SAN GORGONIO WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION
SAN GORGONIO WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,899 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $86k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $102k
What San Gorgonio Wilderness Association does
Mission
We train and equip volunteers to maintain forest and wilderness areas for recreation use by the public, working in partnership with the USFS. We patrol the wilderness for permit compliance, and we educate the public in using the recreation in accordance with the Wilderness Act of 1964, that is, keeping the wilderness in it's natural state without evidence of man's presence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provide volunteers to staff two Forest Service visitor Center's to provide information about hiking and camping, and issue hiking permits for areas limited to x number of people allowed per day. Contact is 10-20,000 people per year in person and by telephone. Volunteer hours save the USFS 150-200,000 dollars per year.
$16,486 spent17% of program spendingSGWA providestrained volunteers and the tools necessary to maintain and clear wilderness trails for hikers. The USFS values this at $300,000 in saved salaries.
$59,643 spentof which $35,000 as grants62% of program spendingProvide patrols to monitor compliance with wilderness regulations. Our volunteer patrols have contact with over 100,000 visitors supplying information and education. The Forest Service determines the value of the volunteer hours to be 250-350,000 dollars in saved salaries.
$20,851 spentof which $19,000 as grants22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $96,980.
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.
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 $146k to $109k (−25%).
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 32% · 2021 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Valerie Silva
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $483.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 SAN GORGONIO WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION’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
SAN GORGONIO WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 SAN GORGONIO WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
SAN GORGONIO WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Government funding SAN GORGONIO WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $322k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$322k
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 SAN GORGONIO WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION
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
100%
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 SAN GORGONIO WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: 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 SAN GORGONIO WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION?
- SAN GORGONIO WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,899 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAN GORGONIO WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $19,899 in grants to SAN GORGONIO WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN GORGONIO WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN GORGONIO WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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