ENVIRONMENTAL TRAVELING COMPANIONS

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C60Z

Classification

1200

Street

2 MARINA BLVD FORT MASON CENTER C38

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• Youth LEAD Program- Teens from under-resourced urban areas (ages 14-18) join ETC on 14 to 21-day summer leadership expeditions. Students from diverse backgrounds live and learn together 24-7 as they build leadership and communication skills, learn about the environment, and develop a stewardship ethic. While sea kayaking, river rafting, or backpacking in the Sierra, our students are offered a supportive community to face challenges, gain confidence, and to realize their dreams, often against the odds. The program serves 48 students on five courses annually. For eight outstanding alumni, ETC offers an intensive and educational 8-month Fellowship program that provides follow-up mentorship and opportunities for students to put their new leadership skills into action. By getting young people out of the inner city and into the wilderness, we offer them opportunities to discover themselves and the natural resources that sustain our lives.

  Expenses $389,435 · Grants $17,315 · Revenue $129,367

• River Program- With the expertise and enthusiasm of highly trained volunteer guides and a paid core river staff, ETC annually provides accessible and educational whitewater rafting trips for over 1,500 participants with disabilities and youth from under resourced backgrounds. ETC's River Program partners with over 50 agencies and schools to serve a diverse client base including economically disadvantaged youth, people with mobility and visual impairments; people with developmental disabilities; and those with life threatening illnesses. While paddling through class lll rapids or floating through tranquil stretches of the river, ETC's participants challenge themselves and discover new strengths. They learn about the human and natural history of the watershed, riparian ecology, river conservation and how to protect our water resources. The majority of our river trips are conducted on the South Fork American River and based from ETC's beautiful, accessible, and ecologically designed River Camp in Coloma, California. ETC also offers Shared River Expeditions for people with disabilities and the general public on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, The Rogue River in Oregon, and other rivers outside of California.

  Expenses $388,696 · Grants $3,388 · Revenue $251,676

• Sea Kayak Program- Paddlers of all abilities and youth from under resourced backgrounds join ETCs highly trained and enthusiastic volunteer guides to gain sea kayak paddling and safety skills before venturing out on the water to discover the diverse bay fauna from buffleheads and bat rays to harbor seals and heron. ETC's Sea Kayak Program has two main bases of operation: Schoonmaker Point Marina in Sausalito on Richardson Bay and Heart's Desire Beach at Tomales Bay State Park. Whether kayaking on San Francisco or Tomales Bay, our participants delight in sharing the adventure and learning about the natural and human history of these unique estuaries. They also are introduced to ways they can become wiser stewards of our precious water resources. ETCs accessible and educational sea kayaking adventures serve 1100 participants annually. ETC also conducts Shared Sea Kayak Expeditions for paddlers with disabilities combined with the general public. These inclusive and life-changing adventures are offered in: Baja on the Sea of Cortez, Emerald Bay on Lake Tahoe, and on the Big River and Coast of Mendocino.

  Expenses $339,752 · Grants $7,565 · Revenue $78,329

• Benefit Trips & Shared Adventures- Every year ETC offers sea kayak and river trips for the general public. From full moon dinner paddles on SF Bay, to family whitewater rafting trips or a longer Baja sea kayak expedition. The goal of these adventures is to raise ETC scholarship funds, build awareness of ETC's mission and to have FUN Whenever possible we integrate paddlers and guides with disabilities on these trips to illuminate the ETC mission and message.

  Expenses $100,842 · Revenue $96,300

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $1,433,603

  Expenses

  $1,638,220

  Contributions

  $815,324

  Grants paid

  $28,268

• 2024

  Revenue

  $1,475,680

  Expenses

  $1,483,048

  Contributions

  $951,911

  Grants paid

  $23,552

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,582,924

  Expenses

  $1,554,523

  Contributions

  $1,067,144

  Grants paid

  $19,821

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,084,759

  Expenses

  $1,102,913

  Contributions

  $611,549

  Grants paid

  $11,364

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,903,684

  Expenses

  $946,383

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,239,441

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $850,890

  Expenses

  $777,964

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,207,256

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,256,991

  Expenses

  $1,202,311

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,160,095

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,155,851

  Expenses

  $1,141,751

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,961,584

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,257,921

  Expenses

  $1,111,244

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,994,739

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,161,394

  Expenses

  $1,154,909

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,828,903

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,063,170

  Expenses

  $1,111,999

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,835,681

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $128,500

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC

  $100,000

  2023 · UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $60,000

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $53,550

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

  $50,500

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $47,800

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION

  $40,000

  2022 · ADVISED - FOR YOUTH LEAD AND WOMEN AND GIRLS. ADVISED - FOR YOUTH LEAD AND WOMEN & GIRLS.

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $39,950

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FORT MASON CENTER

  $39,472

  2023 · TO ASSIST RESIDENCE BY SUBSIDIZING RENTS.

• FORT MASON CENTER

  $39,472

  2024 · TO ASSIST RESIDENCE BY SUBSIDIZING RENTS.

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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