· Public charity
American Hiking Society
To empower all to enjoy, share, and preserve the hiking experience.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $140,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $159,540 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,540 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OZARK TRAIL ASSOCIATION | $21,000 |
| TRAILS FOR ILLINOIS | $19,600 |
| THE SAN DIEGO RIVER PARK FOUNDATION | $18,200 |
| SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS TRAILS COUNCIL | $16,800 |
| VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO | $14,000 |
| BAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY | $12,600 |
| FRIENDS OF VAN CORTLANDT PARK | $9,800 |
| WOODLANDS CONSERVANCY | $8,400 |
| THE FLORIDA TRAIL ASSOCIATION | $7,000 |
| BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION | $7,000 |
| FRIENDS OF GOVERNMENT CANYON | $5,600 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Promoting Responsible Recreation and Environmental Stewardship
To protect, restore, and inspire appreciation of the natural world.
Maintain Trails for US Forest Service
To conserve lands for recreational, educational, ecological, agricultural, scenic & open space opportunities. We develop & maintain public access ways & trails to the ocean, rivers & other natural or scenic features along coastal Mendocino…
Our mission is to protect public trail access build and maintain safe and sustainable trails and promote public engagement in land stewardship and trail use for all types of outdoor recreation.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
The Beaver Creek Wetlands Association preserves and restores our endangered wetland habitat through conservation, stewardship, education and providing public access.
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust leads and inspires action to conserve and enhance the landscape of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.
To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…
To protect, enhance and connect the Ann and Roy Butler Trail at Lady Bird Lake for the benefit of all.
Friends of Edgewood Natural Preserve engages in land and wildlife stewardship nature education and interpretive programs that support Edgewood Park and Natural Preserve. Our mission is to protect Edgewoods extraordinary biodiversity and…
Conservation Volunteers International Program is dedicated to helping sustain some of the worlds greatest landscapes cultural heritage sites and biodiversity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Florida Trail Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Buckeye Environmental Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OZARK TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The San Diego River Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds SANTA MONICA MOUNTAIN TRAILS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO ↗
- Who funds BAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds VAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WOODLANDS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BUCKEYE ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Hiking Society funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Florida Trail Association Inc — 100% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.