· Public charity
American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education Inc
Saving lives through avalanche education
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $29,900 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $56,550 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $26,650 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL OREGON AVALANCHE ASSN | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE UTAH AVALANCHE CENTER | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PAYETTE AVALANCHE CENTER | $9,900 |
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 (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 88% 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.
The mission of the wcmaf is to support avalanche information and education for all backcountry users.
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…
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…
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…
The mission of the cbac is to inform the public about the dangers of human triggered and natural avalanches in crested butte and the surrounding backcountry.
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.
The sierra avalanche center provides avalanche forecasts and education for safe winter backcountry travel in tahoe.
The mission of the Alaska Avalanche School is to provide exceptional experience-based avalanche safety education to all users of the mountain environment.
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…
Avalanche forecasting and education
The american avalanche association promotes professional excellence in avalanche safety, education, and research in the united states.
To increase avalanche awareness in the turnagain area through advisories and public education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Utah Avalanche Fore Cast Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wallowa 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.
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 10 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 FRIENDS OF THE GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FLATHEAD AVALANCHE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UTAH AVALANCHE FORE CAST CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HATCHER PASS AVALANCHE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST AVALANCHE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Central Oregon Avalanche Center ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF COLORADO AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER ↗
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: Frey Foundation · American Endowment 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 organization 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wallowa Avalanche Center — 8% 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.