· Public charity
The Access Fund
The mission of THE ACCESS FUND is to lead and inspire the climbing community toward sustainable access and conservation of the climbing environment.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $20,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $76,882 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $56,882 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLIMBING ASSOCIATION OF | $10,000 |
| WISCONSIN CLIMBERS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% 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.
Advocate for rock climbing in the state of arkansas, maintain trails and infrastructure for rock climbing in arkansas, put on events for the rock climbing community in Arkansas.
CRAG-VT is a non-profit dedicated to preserving and protecting Vermont climbing. Our work spans from securing access to cliffs, serving climbers and stakeholders as an educational resource, and helping to nurture a responsible and strong…
The mission of the access fund is to lead and inspire the climbing community toward sustainable access and conservation of the climbing environment.
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 American Safe Climbing Association is a non-profit organization of climbers who are dedicated to making the sport of rock climbing safer by replacing unsafe bolts and anchors and by educating climbers, land managers and the public…
Promote competition in sport climbing by supporting the training and development of athletes in sport climbing
The wmcc builds grass roots support for climbers concerns and promotes the natural resources of western massachusetts for outdoor recreation through environmental stewardship and education.
The pacific crest trail association's mission is to advocate for the pacific crest trail as an inspirational outdoor experience, to connect people to the pct, and to conserve the trail.
The Washington Climbers Coalition WCC is a nonprofit organization and enjoys the benefit of 501c3 status. Donations to the WCC are tax deductible. Through donations and support, WCC's goal is to keep Washington Climbing vibrant by working…
Reserve and acquire green space and park lands for recreational use.
The teton climbers' coalition stewards, advocates and engages on behalf of teton climbers.
To preserve climbing areas in the southeast for future generations to enjoy. The organization works hand in hand with the access fund, trust for public land and national park services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carolina Climbers Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Western Reserve Land Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 12 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 THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CLIMBING ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds SALT LAKE CLIMBERS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CLIMBERS ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GUNKS CLIMBERS COALITION ↗
- Who funds NEW RIVER ALLIANCE OF CLIMBERS INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA CLIMBERS COALITION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 The Access Fund 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.