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American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education Inc

Saving lives through avalanche education

$57k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$68kEmployment$24kRecreation & Sports$20kEducation$20kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $29,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $56,550 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $26,650 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL OREGON AVALANCHE ASSN$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE UTAH AVALANCHE CENTER$10,000
FRIENDS OF PAYETTE AVALANCHE CENTER$9,900
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FRIENDS OF PAYETTE AVALANCHE CENTER: $10k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE FLATHEAD AVALANCHE CENTER: $20k → 11%BRIDGEPORT AVALANCHE CENTER: $10k → 8%CENTRAL OREGON AVALANCHE ASSN: $10k → 10%WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER: $13k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE UTAH AVALANCHE CENTER: $10k → 8%NORTHWEST AVALANCHE CENTER: $10k → 9%HATCHER PASS AVALANCHE CENTER: $13k → 10%BRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER: $13k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
ID
MT
OR
WY
CA
UT
CO
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The West Central Montana Avalanche Foundation

The mission of the wcmaf is to support avalanche information and education for all backcountry users.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
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
3
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
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
Cb Avalanche Center Inc

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
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
7
Sierra Avalanche Center

The sierra avalanche center provides avalanche forecasts and education for safe winter backcountry travel in tahoe.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Alaska Avalanche School Inc

The mission of the Alaska Avalanche School is to provide exceptional experience-based avalanche safety education to all users of the mountain environment.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Friends of the Sawtooth National Forest Avalanche Center Inc

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
10
Friends of the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center Inc

Avalanche forecasting and education

Public Safety & Disaster
11
American Association of Avalanche Professionals

The american avalanche association promotes professional excellence in avalanche safety, education, and research in the united states.

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12
Friends of Chugach National Forest Avalanche Information Center

To increase avalanche awareness in the turnagain area through advisories and public education.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Utah Avalanche Fore Cast Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER: $12,500 · Public Safety & DisasterWALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTERHATCHER PASS AVALANCHE CENTER INC: $12,500 · Public Safety & DisasterHATCHER PASS AVALANCHE CENTER INCBRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Public Safety & DisasterBRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER FOUNDATIONNORTHWEST AVALANCHE CENTER: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNORTHWEST AVALANCHE CENTERCentral Oregon Avalanche Center: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCentral Oregon Avalanche CenterFRIENDS OF COLORADO AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFRIENDS OF COLORADO AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTERFRIENDS OF THE GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST: $24,365 · EmploymentFRIENDS OF THE GALL…FRIENDS OF THE FLATHEAD AVALANCHE CENTER INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF THE F…FRIENDS OF UTAH AVALANCHE FORE CAST CENTER INC: $19,500 · EducationFRIENDS OF UTAH…FRIENDS OF PAYETTE AVALANCHE CENTER: $9,900 · Other
Public Safety & Disaster$67,500Employment$24,365Recreation & Sports$20,000Education$19,500Other$9,900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST: $24,365 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FLATHEAD AVALANCHE CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFRIENDS OF UTAH AVALANCHE FORE CAST CENTER INC: $19,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER: $12,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetHATCHER PASS AVALANCHE CENTER INC: $12,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetBRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetNORTHWEST AVALANCHE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCentral Oregon Avalanche Center: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF COLORADO AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Frey FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Frey FoundationMI13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Frey Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Wallowa Avalanche Center: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $28k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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