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International Mountain Bicycling Association

IMBA's focus is more trails close to home.

$55k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$203kEnvironment$45k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $25,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $55,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,000 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 $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$8,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mid-Atlantic Off Road Enthusiasts$10,000
SORBA Huntsville (HAMR)$8,000
Southern Maryland Mountain Biking$7,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Central Iowa Trail Association: $8k → 10%Potawatomi Mountain Bike Association: $15k → 14%Central Oregon Trail Alliance: $50k → 10%Hood River Area Trail Stewards: $25k → 10%Roaring Fork Mountain Bike Association: $30k → 6%Trust for Public Land: $45k → 12%Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance: $25k → 9%Mid-Atlantic Off Road Enthusiasts: $10k → 7%Southern Maryland Mountain Biking: $7k → 8%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

WA
MI
OR
IA
CO
VA
MD
AL
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
Overland Mountain Bike Association

Promote and support skills and safety for mountain biking in and around the front range of northern Colorado and southern Wyoming. This includes trail upkeep and expansion and safe biking education.

Recreation & Sports
2
Tarheel Trailblazers

The organization promotes mountain bike riding in the community through building and maintaining natural surface bike trails.

Recreation & Sports
3
Trailbuilders of Quiet Waters Mtb Trails Inc
Recreation & Sports
4
Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association

TAMBA is dedicated to the stewardship of sustainable, multiple-use trails and to preserving access for mountain bikers through advocacy, education and promotion of responsible trail use. TAMBA is primarily a trail building…

Recreation & Sports
5
International Mountain Bicycling Association

CORA is dedicated to mobilizing resources and fostering community awareness, action and education to serve as the catalyst for a vibrant outdoor culture centered on natural surface trails. We focus on enhancing engagement, connectivity and…

Recreation & Sports
6
California Mountain Biking Coalition

The California Mountain Biking Coalitions mission is to Improve and increase trail access for mountain biking throughout California by providing a unified statewide voice for organizations and individuals

Human Services
7
Boulder Mountainbike Alliance

The Boulder Mountainbike Alliance exists to serve as a positive voice for mountain biking in the greater Boulder County, Colorado area by improving the trail experience for all users through social rides and events, advocacy, and trail…

Recreation & Sports
8
International Mountain Bicycling Association Central Wyoming Trails Alliance

CWTA seeks to preserve, protect, and promote mountain biking, trail running, hiking and equestrian access on public and publicly accessible private lands. Through effective communication and education, we advocate for diverse use…

Recreation & Sports
9
Crested Butte Mountain Bike Association

Cbmba's mission is to build, maintain, and advocate for sustainable trails and to steward the landscape of crested butte and beyond.

Recreation & Sports
10
Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association

The VVMTA's mission is to connect our coummunity to the outdoors through sustainable recreation. The VVMTA advocates for soft surface trails, manages trail stewardship programs, maintains and builds trails, coordinates and trains…

Environment
11
Berks Area Mountain Biking Assn

Promote mountain biking, by providing safe rideable mountain bike trails in berks county pa.

Recreation & Sports
12
Colorado Mountain Bike Association

COMBA is dedicated to protecting and improving mountain biking on the Colorado Front Range.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Trail Alliance Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Trust for Public Land. 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Central Oregon Trail Alliance: $50,000 · EnvironmentCentral Oregon Trail AllianceTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $45,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDEvergreen Mountain Bike Alliance: $25,000 · EnvironmentEvergreen Mountain Bike AllianceROARING FORK MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION - RFMBA: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsROARING FORK MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION - RF…Northwest Trail Alliance Inc: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwest Trail Alliance IncHOOD RIVER AREA TRAIL STEWARDS: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsHOOD RIVER AREA TRAIL STEWARDSPotawatomi Mountain Bike Association: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsPotawatomi Mountain Bike AssociationINTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN BICYCLING ASSOCIATION: $8,000 · OtherINTERNATIO…SOUTHERN OFF-ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION: $8,000 · OtherSOUTHERN O…SOUTHERN MARYLAND MOUNTAIN BIKERS L TD: $7,000 · OtherSOUTHERN M…Mid-Atlantic Off-Road Enthusiasts Inc: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Environment$120,000Recreation & Sports$95,000Other$23,000Community Improvement$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCentral Oregon Trail Alliance: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROARING FORK MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION - RFMBA: $30,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetNorthwest Trail Alliance Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetEvergreen Mountain Bike Alliance: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOOD RIVER AREA TRAIL STEWARDS: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMid-Atlantic Off-Road Enthusiasts Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 International Mountain Bicycling Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Mountain Bicycling Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Central Oregon Trail Alliance: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report 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 11 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.

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