Utah · Nonprofit
WANDER PROJECT
WANDER PROJECT (Utah) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,760 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($42,617). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $365k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $89k
- Net assets
- $271k
What Wander Project does
Mission
Empowering individuals to transform outdoor adventures into platforms that raise awareness for charitable causes
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Charity bibs - Wander Project works with event companies to secure free or reduced entries to their events. We then provide our participants with the option to raise funds (a set amount that varies based on the event) in lieu of paying for the event. In 2024 we partnered with 6 event companies: vacation races, aravipa - cocodona & javelina, navajo yes, transrockies run, orca running, and aktive soles. The supply of our charity bibs relies entirely on these companies (and expanding). In 2025, we are planning to expand our event offerings. We give participants the choice to select a charity of their choosing to raise funds for. In 2024, we were able to donate over 205,000 to nonprofits because of our charity bib athletes. Nonprofit partnerships - Wander Project partners with various nonprofits across the country to promote their work. Nonprofit partners collaborate with Wander Project to promote the charity bib program in order to harness the power of supporters to raise funds for their organization.
$346,556 spentof which $205,594 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $346,556.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $156k to $297k (+91%).
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 1% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of WANDER PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $19k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 WANDER PROJECT’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
WANDER PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 WANDER PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 70% — 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
95% of WANDER PROJECT'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Utah, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k 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
WANDER PROJECT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WANDER PROJECT
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 WANDER PROJECT: 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 WANDER PROJECT?
- WANDER PROJECT (Utah) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,760 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($42,617). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WANDER PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $88,760 in grants to WANDER PROJECT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WANDER PROJECT?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $42,617 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WANDER PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing