Arizona · Nonprofit
YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE
YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE (Arizona) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,079,920 to it, the largest being THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ($234,850). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $578k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $114k
What Youth Outdoor Experience does
Mission
To create healthy and resilient communities, Ironwood Tree Experience makes it possible for young people to engage with the natural world and be stewards of the environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Youth Outdoor Education Programming: Ironwood Tree Experience partners with teachers and community experts to deliver hands-on outdoor, nature-based education for middle and high school students in Southern Arizona. Through field trips to public lands and urban landscapes, students explore wildlife and plant science, local culture, and community issues while developing nature-based leadership skills. The organization provides experienced staff, transportation, equipment, and curriculum to support teachers and enhance student learning. By working with community experts and conducting field studies, youth build connections with peers and mentors, present their findings publicly, and engage in outdoor activities that strengthen their understanding of the Southwests natural landscapes and communities. Total Number of Persons Benefitted: 766 Students Engaged: 553 Other Persons Engaged: 213
$238,327 spent$484,433 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $238,327.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $13k to $117k (+831%).
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: 2018 16% · 2019 68% · 2020 48% · 2021 72% · 2022 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Suzanne Dhruv
Executive Director
Board chair
Corina T Ontiveros
President of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $21k → $224k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE’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
YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
71% 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 YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 89% · 2019 38% · 2020 33% · 2021 71% · 2022 49% · 2023 40% — 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
40% of YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $226k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of the Interior$580k
- Department of Agriculture$483k
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.
Organizations like YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE: 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 YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE?
- YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE (Arizona) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,079,920 to it, the largest being THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ($234,850). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,079,920 in grants to YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE?
- THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $234,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 20 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