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Yosemite Climbing Association

Yosemite Climbing Association (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $268,000 to it, the largest being ARNOLD AND MABEL BECKMAN FOUNDATION ($155,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$505k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$268k
Net assets
$221k
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Yosemite Climbing Association does

Mission

To preserve the history of Yosemite Climbing

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.

Programs & Development which includes Facelift events to organize volunteers to help clean up national parks.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).

  1. A museum to Preserve the history of Yosemite Climbing

    $146,163 spentof which $116,063 as grants$-5,822 earned by the program
    51% of program spending
  2. Programs & Development which includes Facelift: a clean up event fueled by volunteers to help keep national parks clean.

    $140,672 spentof which $157,724 as grants$83,944 earned by the program
    49% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $286,835.

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 ($120k) Expenses 100 ($91k) Net assets 100 ($58k)2021 Revenue 155 ($185k) Expenses 134 ($122k) Net assets 210 ($121k)2022 Revenue 245 ($293k) Expenses 379 ($345k) Net assets 230 ($133k)2023 Revenue 448 ($535k) Expenses 640 ($583k) Net assets 131 ($76k)2024 Revenue 440 ($525k) Expenses 504 ($459k) Net assets 218 ($126k)2025 Revenue 422 ($505k) Expenses 449 ($409k) Net assets 382 ($221k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (422)Expenses (449)Net assets (382)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 2024 to 2025, from $130k to $222k (+71%).

$58k
$121k
$138k
$82k
$130k
$222k
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

92% of Yosemite Climbing Association’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 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.

$29k
’20
$63k
’21
−$52k
’22
−$47k
’23
$66k
’24
$96k
’25
4.0
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.

2022202320242025
Listed4443
Joined·+0+3+0
No longer listed·031
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $500.

4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Yosemite Climbing Association’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

Yosemite Climbing Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

32% 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 Yosemite Climbing Association.

58%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 80% · 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.

How long its funders stay

20% of Yosemite Climbing Association's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

85% of Yosemite Climbing Association's grant income comes from California funders.

NJ
CA
UT

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

’17
’19
’20
’21
’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53k 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

Yosemite Climbing Association has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve4.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)33% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Yosemite Climbing Association

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 30%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
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 Yosemite Climbing Association?
Yosemite Climbing Association (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $268,000 to it, the largest being ARNOLD AND MABEL BECKMAN FOUNDATION ($155,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Yosemite Climbing Association have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $268,000 in grants to Yosemite Climbing Association, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Yosemite Climbing Association?
ARNOLD AND MABEL BECKMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Yosemite Climbing Association 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 8 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