Oregon · Nonprofit
WILD DIVERSITY
WILD DIVERSITY (Oregon) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,580,776 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($470,550). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $595k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $0
What Wild Diversity does
Mission
To help create a personal connection to the outdoors for black, indigenous, all people of color (bipoc) & the lgbtq2s+ communities, through outdoor adventures and education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Wild Diversitys last program activity was september 28th, 2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
We welcome and create a sense of belonging in the outdoors for the bipoc & lgbtq+ communities. We host outdoor adventures, provide outdoor education, and facilitate community workshops. We build community through outdoor group adventure programs including, day and weekend trips, and community workshops. We provide resources through community workshops, our gear library to increase accessibility to the outdoors, and our support for our local community partnerships through our curriculum and resources. We equip the next generation by creating equitable access to outdoor adventures and youth ecology program and adventure guide development training. Additional details listed in schedule o.
$597,794 spent$44,477 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $597,794.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $235k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Mercy Mfon Shammah
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $8k → $432k.
8 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 WILD DIVERSITY’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
WILD DIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
68% 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 WILD DIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 79% · 2021 31% · 2022 42% · 2023 23% — 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
55% of WILD DIVERSITY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 45% 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
54% of WILD DIVERSITY's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $578k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like WILD DIVERSITY
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 Oregon
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
74%
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 WILD DIVERSITY: 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 WILD DIVERSITY?
- WILD DIVERSITY (Oregon) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,580,776 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($470,550). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILD DIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,580,776 in grants to WILD DIVERSITY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILD DIVERSITY?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $470,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILD DIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 22 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