California · Nonprofit
VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR CALIFORNIA
VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,898 to it, the largest being Bay Area Barns and Trails ($37,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $84k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $54k
- Net assets
- $64k
What Volunteers for Outdoor California does
Mission
Purpose is to engage in charitable, scientific, literary, and educational programs and activities, which motivate and enable people to be active stewards of California's public and protected lands and environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2025 Volunteers for Outdoor California were able to resumee normal operations although agency partners were still imposing some project size restrictions. Trail work: In 2025, Volunteers for Outdoor California worked in 5 parks and had 1 approved project cancelled by agency partners at the last minute (within a month of the scheduled event) for soil conditions. Our volunteers built over 1/2 miles of new trail on a steep grade, built 3 sets of stairs, repaired and restored over 4 miles of trail, including repairing 2 retaining walls. These projects were all done on either public lands(state, regional & local parks) or publicly accessible lands, organizing and directing the efforts of over 480 volunteers in stewardship efforts.
$46,032 spentof which $38,687 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,032.
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 2023 to 2024, from $24k to $64k (+169%).
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.
100% of VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR CALIFORNIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Cathy Moyer
Exec. Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $3k → $23k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR CALIFORNIA’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
VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR CALIFORNIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
31% 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 VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR CALIFORNIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 71% — 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
100% of VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR CALIFORNIA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $123 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.
Against its field
VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR CALIFORNIA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR CALIFORNIA
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 VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR CALIFORNIA: 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 VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR CALIFORNIA?
- VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,898 to it, the largest being Bay Area Barns and Trails ($37,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR CALIFORNIA have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $53,898 in grants to VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR CALIFORNIA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR CALIFORNIA?
- Bay Area Barns and Trails is the largest funder on record, with $37,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR CALIFORNIA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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