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WILDERNESS RIDGE

WILDERNESS RIDGE (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,400 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$57k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$51k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Wilderness Ridge does

Mission

We provide Christ-centered, servant-leadership-focused wilderness camping experiences for young men through safe, healthy and financially accessible programs. We program and facilitate weekend and week-long camps dedicated to the spiritual growth of the campers. We serve both families and individual youths.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Provided spiritual training through weekend retreats for fathers and sons focused on the transition to manhood for the young men attending.

    $3,075 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Provide spiritual training to boys and young men through week-long camp experience in a primitive setting. Training and activities focus on the development of skills and knowledge needed to exhibit the characteristics of Biblical manhood.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $3,075.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($5k) Expenses 100 ($2k) Net assets 100 ($2k)2021 Revenue 902 ($43k) Expenses 1142 ($26k) Net assets 1134 ($28k)2022 Revenue 976 ($46k) Expenses 2362 ($54k) Net assets 813 ($20k)2023 Revenue 779 ($37k) Expenses 875 ($20k) Net assets 1502 ($37k)2024 Revenue 1280 ($61k) Expenses 1721 ($40k) Net assets 2369 ($58k)2025 Revenue 1189 ($57k) Expenses 3914 ($90k) Net assets 2084 ($51k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (1189)Expenses (3914)Net assets (2084)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 $2k to $28k (+1034%).

$2k
$28k
$20k
$37k
$58k
$51k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of WILDERNESS RIDGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,623 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’20
$17k
’21
−$8k
’22
$17k
’23
$21k
’24
−$34k
’25
16
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed55567
Joined·+1+0+1+4
No longer listed·1003
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $7k.

Funder
'22
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 WILDERNESS RIDGE’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.

Where its funders are

100% of WILDERNESS RIDGE'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WILDERNESS RIDGE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−59% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)64% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like WILDERNESS RIDGE

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In Texas

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

52%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

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Questions and answers

Who funds WILDERNESS RIDGE?
WILDERNESS RIDGE (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,400 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WILDERNESS RIDGE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,400 in grants to WILDERNESS RIDGE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WILDERNESS RIDGE?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $25,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WILDERNESS RIDGE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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