Colorado · Nonprofit
WAYFARING BAND INC
WAYFARING BAND INC (Colorado) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,080 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($59,271). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $512k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $143k
- Net assets
- $292k
What Wayfaring Band Inc does
Mission
To create inclusive experiences that amplify the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, cultivate connections, and transform perspectives to alter the way people view disability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Wayfaring Band travel programs are not typical vacations. They are unique, innovative, and designed to meet the social, emotional, and physical needs of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). From overnight getaways to week-long road trips and even longer international adventures, The Band's travel programs are mind-expanding opportunities for adults living with I/DD to gain a sense of independence, learn invaluable social skills, and teach the world around them to see people with disabilities in a new, more empathetic, and inclusive way. Every day, we challenge our travelers to take risks in a safe and supportive group that encourages self-advocacy. Our proprietary anti-ableist leadership curriculum guides an active learning process that improves lives and creates a world where all disabled people can fully participate in society, where their needs are met, and where their rights are respected and upheld.
$342,993 spent$343,554 earned by the program94% of program spendingThe Everybody In, Disrupting Ableism training program guides and supports businesses, potential co- workers, and others who are interested in becoming allies to the disability community with an explicit focus on our neighbors who experience disabilities. By professionally framing the lived experience of our clientele to help create workplace environments that are safe and responsive to the needs of all stakeholders, including those who experience intellectual disabilities, our customized training courses create vibrant environments in which individuals with I/DD can learn, grow, and thrive while making meaningful contributions to the organizations for whom they work.
$11,082 spent$51,300 earned by the program3% of program spendingParticipants of the Supper Club program gather once a month to learn globally practiced cooking techniques with a Chef and then dine together as an important part of community gathering around a common table.
$8,905 spent$20,115 earned by the program2% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $362,980.
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 2017 to 2018, from $112k to $240k (+116%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 23% · 2022 6% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of WAYFARING BAND INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Kendall Hagar
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $6k → $34k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 WAYFARING BAND INC’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
WAYFARING BAND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 WAYFARING BAND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 92% · 2021 24% · 2022 36% · 2023 50% — 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
75% of WAYFARING BAND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% 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
66% of WAYFARING BAND INC'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 $49k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
WAYFARING BAND INC is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WAYFARING BAND INC
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 WAYFARING BAND INC: 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 WAYFARING BAND INC?
- WAYFARING BAND INC (Colorado) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,080 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($59,271). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WAYFARING BAND INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $143,080 in grants to WAYFARING BAND INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAYFARING BAND INC?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $59,271 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAYFARING BAND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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