Where the money goes, and who decides.

On the record

The legal facts.

Where the money goes

One number drives everything.

A fully outfitted, guided youth hunt costs roughly $2,500. That is not a figure we rounded up for a brochure. It is what it costs, and it is exactly why a kid without a hunting family never gets a first season.

It is also a budgeting balance rather than a price list. Four of these costs are close to fixed. The animal is whatever is left, and that is the line that moves.

• Gear, about $1,000 — boots, field clothing, hearing and eye protection. Everything a first-timer does not already own, and the largest predictable line.
• Travel, $300 to $400 — fuel and food, there and back. The country is rarely close to home.
• Ammunition, $50 to $250 — depending entirely on caliber.
• License and tags, $50 to $60 — the young shooter’s own license.
• The animal, whatever is left — priced by species. This line absorbs the difference, which is why the total lands near $2,500. When an outfitter donates the animal, that money goes straight into the next kid’s hunt.
• A vetted mentor’s time, $0 — donated, not billed.

Donations run through Zeffy, which charges nonprofits no platform fee and no processing fee. Most donation tools take roughly 3% before a dollar reaches the organization. Every dollar you give reaches Range + Keep.

No one at Range + Keep draws a salary. Not the founder, not the mentors, not anyone. There is no payroll, and there is no plan for one. Every dollar raised goes to the cost of putting a young person in the field.

The founder does not keep the books. Elisa Gomez, co-founder and treasurer, records and reconciles what comes in and what goes out. The person spending the money is not the person accounting for it — which is the whole point of saying so here.

The organization owns nothing. Not a rifle, not a truck, not an optic. Every rifle and vehicle Range + Keep puts in the field is the founder’s own, bought years before this organization existed. Donations pay for the hunt — tags, outfitter fees, fuel, ammunition, protection for young ears and eyes — not for the guns. If that ever changes, and the organization buys equipment or is given it, this page will say so.

Safeguarding

The rules we do not bend.

• A parent or legal guardian attends. Every time, without exception. There is no version of this where you drop your child off with us.
• Every mentor is vetted personally by the founder before they are anywhere near a young person. That is why there is no application button on this site — mentoring starts with an email and a conversation.
• We stay small on purpose. The founder runs the first hunts himself, helped by his teenage sons. We add mentors only as fast as we can properly vet them.
• Success is not measured by whether a child takes an animal. A season where nothing is harvested but a young person learns patience, safety and respect is a season that worked.

These four are the summary. the full youth protection policy is published in its entirety — screening, supervision, firearms, media, and what we do if someone raises a concern.