Wilderness Youth Project Incorporated
Santa Barbara, CA
$625.1KTax year 2024
Grant purpose
REACH Fellowship, supporting first generation college going, lower income youth to achieve their full potential
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Private foundation · EIN 47-4602068 · IRS 990-PF filings through tax year 2025
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Reported organization name: Audacious Foundation
Giving by tax year
Year-level totals across every reported grant in this profile — a summary, not a filter. The awards further down are the largest individual grants across all years, not each year's complete list.
| Tax year | Grants paid | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | $968.2K |
| 2024 | 20 | $1.3M |
Where Audacious Foundation gives
States of grant recipients reported on the foundation's 990-PF filings, by dollars received.
Largest reported grants
Historical awards reported to the IRS. These are examples of past giving, not open opportunities.
Wilderness Youth Project Incorporated
Santa Barbara, CA
$503.9KTax year 2025
Grant purpose
REACH Fellowship, supporting first generation college going, lower income youth to achieve their full potential
Explore Ecology
Santa Barbara, CA
$340KTax year 2024
Grant purpose
Garden Explorers Early Childhood Education Project in 24-25
Explore Ecology
Santa Barbara, CA
$250KTax year 2025
Grant purpose
"Garden Explorers" cultivating garden education opportunities in early childhood communities, including TK teachers in a three year program
Children and Family Resource Services
Santa Barbara, CA
$95KTax year 2025
Grant purpose
conclusion of the Future Smiles program, supporting 343 patients enrolled and documenting program tools, successes and evaluation data for potential future use
Showing 5 of the 25 largest grants (37 reported in all).
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Figures are aggregated from Audacious Foundation's IRS Form 990-PF electronic filings (2 filings on file, most recent tax year 2025). Totals reflect grants the foundation reported as paid, and can lag the current year because foundations file annually and often on extension. Source: IRS 990-PF filing on ProPublica. Raw e-file archive (ZIP) — a large IRS yearly archive download.
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