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AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR AVALANCHE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC
Saving lives through avalanche education
$133k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants
7
Communities
$24k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $102k
$12,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
- GNFAC$24,365
- FRIENDS OF THE FLATHEAD AVALANCHE CENTER$20,000
- WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER$12,500
- HATCHER PASS AVALANCHE CENTER$12,500
- BRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER$12,500
- NORTHWEST AVALANCHE CENTER$10,000
- FRIENDS OF CAIC$10,000
- BRIDGEPORT AVALANCHE CENTER$9,500
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 84% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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The West Central Montana Avalanche
The mission of the wcmaf is to support avalanche information and education for all backcountry users.
Public Safety & Disaster
2
Friends of the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center
Avalanche forecasting and education
Public Safety & Disaster
3
Juneau Ski Club
To teach & promote amateur ski racing.
Youth Development
4
Climb Avy Aware
Promotion of avalanche awareness and safety for climbers and the education of climbers and other members of the public who might be recreating in Colorado's backcountry avalanche terrain. Specifically, provides climbers with important…
Public Safety & Disaster
5
Friends of the Mount Shasta Avalanche Center
Friends of the mt shasta avalanche center functions as a partnership between the us forest service and fmsac to endeavor to sustain our local avalanche center. we strive to keep safe those that find their soul in the freedom of our…
Philanthropy
6
Alaska Avalanche Information Center Inc
To Support and promote avalanche forecasts, observations, education, research and professional development in the pursuit of healthy lifestyles and the reduction of unintentional injuries and deaths related to avalanche and backcountry…
Public Safety & Disaster
7
Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage
Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage (NSAA) is dedicated to promoting all forms of Nordic skiing as a healthy form of individual and family activity. See Part III, line 1 and Schedule O for additional details.
Recreation & Sports
8
Fire Weather & Avalanche Center
The Fire, Weather & Avalanche Center's (FWAC) mission as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization is to build user-friendly products for the publicwith an emphasis on the backcountry.
Public Safety & Disaster
9
Central Oregon Avalanche Center
The Central Oregon Avalanche Center empowers the backcountry community to make informed decisions by providing avalanche forecasting, observations, and education.
Public Safety & Disaster
10
American Snowsports Education
Cooperates with asea in education of ski and snowboard instruction and coaching.
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11
Beaverhead Trails Coalition
Enhancement and development of trails on public lands in Beaverhead County
Environment
12
Friends of the Sawtooth National
Our organization, friends of the sawtooth national forest avalanche center supports the snfac and promotes life-saving avalanche education and outreach throughout southern and central idaho. we do this by providing direct financial support…
Public Safety & Disaster
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Utah Avalanche and the most unlike its peers is Northwest Avalanche Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Public Safety & Disaster$57,500Employment$24,365Recreation & Sports$20,000Education$9,500
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.
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.
Frey FoundationMI13.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Frey Foundation · 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 organisation AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR AVALANCHE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HATCHER PASS AVALANCHE CENTER.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 842765579 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on HATCHER PASS AVALANCHE CENTER, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education Inc?
Find your warmest path to American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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