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THE OUTDOOR FOUNDATION

EIN 84-1549065 BOULDER, CO

Revenue 2025
$1,561,107
Expenses 2025
$1,003,614

Program services were 82.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B99
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 21497

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).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE FOUNDATION IS ORGANIZED EXCLUSIVELY FOR CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES RELATED TO OUTDOOR RECREATION ACTIVITES AND EDUCATION, INCLUDING THE PRESERVATION OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, ADDRESSING ISSUES OF THE OUTDOOR INDUSTRY AND PROMOTING PARTICIPATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO INSPIRE AND GROW GENERATIONS OF OUTDOOR ENTHUSIASTS.

  • CONVENING AND PARTICIPATION: FOSTERING COLLABORATION AND ACTION - THE FOUNDATION IS WORKING TO BRING TOGETHER TOP LEADERS, KEY ORGANIZATIONS, AND YOUTH ACTIVISTS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN A RANGE OF ACTION-ORIENTED CONVENING EVENTS, FROM INTIMATE HIGH-POWERED GATHERINGS TO LARGE-SCALE YOUTH FESTIVALS. A FOCUS OF THIS WORK INCLUDES EXPLORATION OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE OUTDOOR INDUSTRY, NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO JOIN FORCES AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE. THE FOUNDATION WORKS WITH ORGANIZATIONS AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL TO DRIVE OUTDOOR PARTICIPATION. THE THRIVE OUTSIDE PROGRAM INVOLVES SUPPORTING EXISTING PROGRAMS AND PROVIDING THE INFRASTRUCTURE, PLANNING, AND RESOURCES NEEDED TO BUILD A LIFELONG COMMITMENT TO THE OUTDOORS. ADDITIONALLY, THE FOUNDATION PARTNERS WITH MEMBERS AND AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS TO EXECUTE AND ADMINISTER GRANT PROGRAMS THAT ALSO RESULT IN INCREASED OUTDOOR PARTICIPATION.

    Expenses $823,935 · Grants $514,029

  • RESEARCH: IDENTIFYING BEST PRACTICES AND TRENDS - THE FOUNDATION PRODUCES SPECIALIZED REPORTS EXPLORING THE TRENDS AND IMPACT OF OUTDOOR ACTIVITY IN AMERICA. STUDIES INCLUDE NATIONAL PARTICIPATION TRENDS, SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE INACTIVITY AND OBESITY CRISIS, AND SEEKING TO UNDERSTAND AND REVERSE THE GROWING INACTIVITY CRISIS AMONG YOUTH AND THE GROWING DISCONNECT BETWEEN YOUTH AND THE OUTDOORS.

  • MISCELLANEOUS PROGRAM EXPENSES

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.

  • Jil Littlejohn Bostick

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Danica Carey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Amy Dominguez-Arms

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Hilary Hartley

    SECRETARY-TR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bill Neff

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jen Neuhaus

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nate Simmons

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,561,107
    Expenses
    $1,003,614
    Contributions
    $1,502,571
    Grants paid
    $514,029
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $824,925
    Expenses
    $1,231,540
    Contributions
    $803,799
    Grants paid
    $662,212
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,020,247
    Expenses
    $1,753,203
    Contributions
    $972,195
    Grants paid
    $826,372
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,636,844
    Expenses
    $2,217,006
    Contributions
    $2,636,844
    Grants paid
    $1,314,469

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
    $2,553,438
    Expenses
    $1,659,800
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,612,993

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,423,237
    Expenses
    $1,095,688
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,662,305

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,423,237
    Expenses
    $1,095,688
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,662,305

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,907,778
    Expenses
    $1,693,219
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,275,083

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,733,221
    Expenses
    $1,923,281
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,027,468

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,106,830
    Expenses
    $2,232,488
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,172,485

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,156,218
    Expenses
    $2,303,886
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,372,168

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,226,457
    Expenses
    $1,936,579
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,455,850

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,655,470
    Expenses
    $1,604,557
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,141,654

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,700,834
    Expenses
    $1,572,391
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,072,832

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.