Washington · Nonprofit
The Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School
The Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School (Washington) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $807,022 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($311,719). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $807k
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What The Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School does
Mission
Wilderness Awareness School provides educational programs for youth and adults that helps cultivate healthy relationships with nature, community and self.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Youth Programs - We offer nature education programs for youth (ages 4-18) during the summer and school year. Our students discover the wonders of nature, explore our natural environment and build friendships. Our school year youth programs consisted of roots and wings (one day per week, ages 4-6, 25 students), youth school (one day per week, ages 7-12, 84 students), community school (one day per week, ages 13-18, 27 students), wild within (one weekend per month, ages 14-18, 40 students) and monthly program (once per month, ages 7-12, 284 students). Our summer youth programs, which consisted of day camps, overnight camps and expeditions served 1,998 students. Overall 2,458 students were served through our youth programs.
$1,524,357 spentof which $49,320 as grants$1,917,097 earned by the program61% of program spendingAdult Programs - We offer a variety of programs for adults that range from a 2 hour workshop to a 9-month intensive. Through nature connection and cultural mentoring, our programs provide transformational experiences that awaken people's unique gifts, deepen their relationship with nature, and empower them to enrich the health of their communities. The immersion (our premier program for adults) met 3 days per week for the school year and covered our core curriculum of tracking, bird language, naturalist skills, survival skills, edible and medicinal plants and mentoring skills. We had 35 students for the year. The tracking intensive met for 10 weekends to focus on the art of tracking. We had 24 students for the year. The plant intensive met for 10 weekends to focus on learning about edible and medicinal plants. We had 20 students for the year. The 19 natural instruction training students spent one day per week at our youth programs and the immersion to learn our educational methodology, as well as increase the quality of these offerings. Adult programs also included once per month tracking clubs, and other special programs as well as weekend and week-long classes and expeditions,…
$944,429 spentof which $39,795 as grants$528,312 earned by the program38% of program spendingRetail Sales - Retail sales provides educational resources to parents and students in order to deepen their understanding and appreciation of nature, community and self.
$17,219 spent$16,013 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,486,005.
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.
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 $3.4M to $4.7M (+39%).
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: 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $208k → $25k.
8 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 The Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School’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
The Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 The Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 59% · 2019 72% · 2020 52% · 2021 47% · 2022 58% · 2023 23% — 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
73% of The Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
87% of The Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School'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 $107k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $700k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School?
- The Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School (Washington) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $807,022 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($311,719). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $807,022 in grants to The Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $311,719 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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