How much did Outdoor Alliance grant in FY2024?

Outdoor Alliance reported 7 grants totaling $101,358 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Outdoor Alliance based?

Outdoor Alliance is based in DC.

Outdoor Alliance

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· Public charity

Outdoor Alliance

Our mission is to unite the voices of outdoor enthusiasts to protect the humanpowered outdoor recreation experience and conserve Americas public lands.

$101k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$50k

Largest

01What you fund

0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$440kHuman Services$108kRecreation & Sports$46kOther$117k

02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k6 grants · $41k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$8,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

The Mountaineers$50,000
American Whitewater$9,000
Surfrider Foundation$9,000
Access Fund$8,000
Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance$5,000
Washington Climbers Coalition$5,000
Washington Trails Association$5,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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 edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$679k · 10 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$679k

$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+150%

Still filing today

100%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

TM
The Mountaineers
4× · 2021–2024 · $219k · revenue +38%
AW
American Whitewater
8× · 2017–2024 · $158k · revenue +44%
WW
Winter Wildlands Alliance
6× · 2018–2023 · $108k · revenue +18%

Funded once

MB
Mountain Bike the Tetonsgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +150%
C
Cultivate
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -19%
MT
Mountain Truegraduated
one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +258%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Tahoe Rim Trail Association

To maintain and enhance the tahoe rim trail system, practice and inspire stewardship, and preserve recreational access to the natural beauty of the lake tahoe region.

Recreation & Sports

Colorado Mountain Bike Association

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

Recreation & Sports

Beaverhead Trails Coalition

Enhancement and development of trails on public lands in Beaverhead County

Environment

Mountainfilm

To use the power of film, art and ideas to inspire audiences to create a better world.

Arts & Culture

Alpine Trails Foundation

Trail maintenance

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Mountain America Foundation

Philanthropy

International Mountain Bicycling Association

Mountain biking trail construction and maintenance

Recreation & Sports

Cascade Bicycle Club

Cascades mission is to improve lives through bicycling through education programs policy initiatives and world-class events and rides.

Recreation & Sports

Minority Outdoor Alliance

Education

International Mountain Bicycling Association

Effort to create enhance and preserve trail experiences for mountain bicycling

Recreation & Sports

Teton Freeriders Inc

Maintain, sustain, and promote safety through trail building.

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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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mountaineers and the most unlike its peers is American Whitewater. 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

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/15

Grantees still filing

14/15

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Environment$440,391Other$116,750Human Services$107,671Recreation & Sports$45,750

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.

PatagoniaorgCA19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Clif Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Ge Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Outdoor Alliance 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.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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.

05Through 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: Concerned Off-Road Bicyclists Assoc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 954124454 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 Concerned Off-Road Bicyclists Assoc, 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 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% 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.

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How do I get to Outdoor Alliance?

Find your warmest path to Outdoor Alliance 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.

Outdoor Alliance

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Outdoor Alliance?

More from the funding graph

Outdoor Alliance

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Outdoor Alliance?

More from the funding graph