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WILD SOULS RANCH

WILD SOULS RANCH (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $213,607 to it, the largest being CHRISTINE & JALMER BERG FOUNDATION ($60,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.8M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$214k
Net assets
$3.0M
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Wild Souls Ranch does

Mission

Provide an equine learning center to the at-risk youth, adopted youth, and foster youth of humboldt county.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide an equine learning center to the at-risk youth, adopted youth, and foster youth of humboldt county.

    $1,627,352 spent$1,614,772 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,627,352.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($232k) Expenses 100 ($217k) Net assets 100 ($28k)2018 Revenue 256 ($595k) Expenses 241 ($522k) Net assets 361 ($100k)2019 Revenue 486 ($1.1M) Expenses 466 ($1.0M) Net assets 787 ($218k)2020 Revenue 724 ($1.7M) Expenses 696 ($1.5M) Net assets 1462 ($406k)2021 Revenue 981 ($2.3M) Expenses 857 ($1.9M) Net assets 3184 ($883k)2022 Revenue 1284 ($3.0M) Expenses 1073 ($2.3M) Net assets 5550 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 1556 ($3.6M) Expenses 1211 ($2.6M) Net assets 9117 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 1479 ($3.4M) Expenses 1264 ($2.7M) Net assets 11617 ($3.2M)2025 Revenue 769 ($1.8M) Expenses 936 ($2.0M) Net assets 10735 ($3.0M)
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Revenue (769)Expenses (936)Net assets (10735)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $572k to $1.8M (+209%).

$31k
$132k
$253k
$572k
$1.8M
$2.5M
$3.3M
$4.0M
$3.7M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 5% · 2021 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

3% of WILD SOULS RANCH’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,035 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
’17
$72k
’18
$118k
’19
$171k
’20
$420k
’21
$656k
’22
$990k
’23
$694k
’24
−$245k
’25
0.2
months of
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

Murray Koch

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed346655666
Joined·+3+2+3+2+3+2+3+1
No longer listed·20333131
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $18k → $13k.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 SOULS RANCH’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 SOULS RANCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

28%
largest funder
64%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 52% · 2019 96% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 39% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

0% of WILD SOULS RANCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

73% of WILD SOULS RANCH's grant income comes from California funders.

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CA
KS
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WILD SOULS RANCH has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−14% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding WILD SOULS RANCH receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $289k on record.

Federal$289k
grants $289kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$289k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 19%Fundraising 1%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds WILD SOULS RANCH?
WILD SOULS RANCH (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $213,607 to it, the largest being CHRISTINE & JALMER BERG FOUNDATION ($60,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WILD SOULS RANCH have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $213,607 in grants to WILD SOULS RANCH, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WILD SOULS RANCH?
CHRISTINE & JALMER BERG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WILD SOULS RANCH 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 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