Wisconsin · Nonprofit
THE BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS AND TEACHING
THE BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS AND TEACHING (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $171,731 to it, the largest being THE NEXT 100 SYNDICATE ($48,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $375k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $172k
- Net assets
- $151k
What The Bus for Outdoor Access and Teaching does
Mission
The Bus for Outdoor Access & Teaching or BOAT strives to empower impact organizations to get more people outside. We put a full-service outdoor program in the hands of community leaders addressing barriers to remote outdoor experiences. By honoring and enabling the vision of others we leverage the power of building community outside to achieve greater goals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
BOAT partners with community leaders and provides them with equipment transportation food support insurance risk management and other elements necessary for successful outdoor experiences. Those trip leaders then get to lead trips that support their own work and mission on their own terms.
$303,127 spent$247,920 earned by the program100% of program spendingBOAT partners with organizations and provides them with equipment transportation food support insurance risk management and other elements necessary for residential camp or other experiential learning programs.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $303,127.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $77k to $225k (+191%).
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: 2024 28% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of THE BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS AND TEACHING’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $14k → $32k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS AND TEACHING’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 BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS AND TEACHING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS AND TEACHING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 75% — 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
THE BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS AND TEACHING draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
THE BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS AND TEACHING has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS AND TEACHING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $361k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$295k
- Department of the Interior$66k
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 THE BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS AND TEACHING
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
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 THE BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS AND TEACHING: 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 THE BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS AND TEACHING?
- THE BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS AND TEACHING (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $171,731 to it, the largest being THE NEXT 100 SYNDICATE ($48,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS AND TEACHING have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $171,731 in grants to THE BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS AND TEACHING, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS AND TEACHING?
- THE NEXT 100 SYNDICATE is the largest funder on record, with $48,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS AND TEACHING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 7 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing