· Public charity
Choose Outdoors Inc
To promote outdoor recreation and active lifestyles through support for public lands and waters; recreation infrastructure; and programs connecting americans to the outdoors.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $339,896 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $352,860 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,964 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
- $10k–50k14 grants · $276k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONIFER ROTARY FOUNDATION | $64,300 |
| WILDERNESS RESTORATION VOLUNTEERS | $25,000 |
| MOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| PHILMONT SCOUT RANCH | $25,000 |
| ADVENTURE WEST COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS | $25,000 |
| VENTURA BOTANICAL GARDENS | $22,000 |
| ALDO LEOPOLD FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD | $20,000 |
| ECO FORESTERS | $19,996 |
| TRAILS GROUP | $15,000 |
| SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS | $15,000 |
| THE WRIGHT OPERA HOUSE | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MOUNT EVANS AND LOST | $12,000 |
| FIRE ADAPTED BAILEY | $11,600 |
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 (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
Poudre Wilderness Volunteers (PWV) is a Larimer County, Colorado, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1996. The mission of PWV is to assist the Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the United States Forest Service in managing and…
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…
Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.
To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…
The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.
Rocky Mountain Field Institute conserves and protects public lands in Southern Colorado through volunteer-based trail and restoration projects, environmental education, and restoration research.
To Promote Stewardship of our public lands by engaging the community in education, conservation and restoration projects.
Motivate and enable people to be active stewards of colorado's natural resources.
Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
Educate the public on forest conservation issues in New Mexico
we ensure the availability of critical field data that accelerates conservation and climate solutions. we achieve our mission by mobilizing and training outdoor enthusiasts and local communities to collect high-quality scientific data that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Restoration Volunteers and the most unlike its peers is Fire Adapted Bailey. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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.
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 Conifer Rotary Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUE ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE WEST COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WILDLANDS RESTORATION VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds VENTURA BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD ↗
- Who funds ALDO LEOPOLD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EcoForesters ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WRIGHT OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TRAIL GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MOUNT EVANS & LOST CREEK WILDERNESSES ↗
- Who funds FIRE ADAPTED BAILEY ↗
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: The Nature Conservancy · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Choose Outdoors 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.
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.
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