California · Nonprofit
Western States Trail Endowment Fund
Western States Trail Endowment Fund (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,392 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($6,892). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $81k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $896k
What Western States Trail Endowment Fund does
Mission
The organization was created as a supporting organization for the Western States Trail Foundation. Its main purpose is to manage the endowment fund for use in the charitable purposes of the Western States Trail, such as preservation and maintenance of the historic trail.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Trail Improvement Program:This additional program is for the preservation and improvement of land surrounding the Western States Trail recreation area. A $50,000 restricted donation for the care and upkeep of the Robie Equestrian Park was received this year towards this mission. Funds of $78,814 were distributed to the supported organization towards expansion of the Trail.Development of a memorial structure at the Auburn Staging area is still in process.
$78,814 spentof which $78,814 as grants90% of program spendingAdopt-The-Trail Program: Management of investment activity consisted of selling $222,794 of various securities resulting in net realized gain of $7,852. Most proceeds were re-invested. Dividend and interest income, including capital gain distributions less foreign tax paid, of $21,468 was earned on investments. Investment management fees were $8,859. The organization's investments' market value ended the year with an unrealized gain of $71,828.
$8,859 spent10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $87,673.
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 2021 to 2022, from $993k to $802k (−19%).
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.
64% of Western States Trail Endowment Fund’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $1k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 Western States Trail Endowment Fund’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
Western States Trail Endowment Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% 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
51% 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 Western States Trail Endowment Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 87% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
51% of Western States Trail Endowment Fund'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 $7k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
Western States Trail Endowment Fund's revenue fell 47% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Western States Trail Endowment Fund
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.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Western States Trail Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Western States Trail Endowment Fund: 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 Western States Trail Endowment Fund?
- Western States Trail Endowment Fund (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,392 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($6,892). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Western States Trail Endowment Fund have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $13,392 in grants to Western States Trail Endowment Fund, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Western States Trail Endowment Fund?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,892 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Western States Trail Endowment Fund 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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