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Alaska Mountain & Wilderness Huts Association dba Alaska Huts Association

Alaska Mountain & Wilderness Huts Association dba Alaska Huts Association (Alaska) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $700,198 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($370,424). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$449k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$700k
Net assets
$1.1M
3/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 62%
01What it does

What Alaska Mountain & Wilderness Huts Association dba Alaska Huts Association does

Mission

To build and maintain lodgings that promote camaraderie, stewardship, outdoor education and Alaska's cultural heritage.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The organization operates Manitoba Cabin and opened it as a facility to serve backcountry hikers and skiers, as well as a venue for school groups and educational programming.

    $23,489 spent$138,131 earned by the program
    66% of program spending
  2. Alaska Huts has proposed to build a three hut system that would provide a unique hut to hut experience in SouthCentral Alaska. This would allow opportunities to view glaciers, wildlife and enjoy the Alaska backcountry.

    $11,920 spent
    34% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $35,409.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($94k) Expenses 100 ($111k) Net assets 100 ($41k)2018 Revenue 78 ($73k) Expenses 81 ($90k) Net assets 60 ($24k)2019 Revenue 126 ($119k) Expenses 105 ($116k) Net assets 66 ($27k)2020 Revenue 116 ($109k) Expenses 83 ($93k) Net assets 133 ($55k)2021 Revenue 480 ($453k) Expenses 81 ($90k) Net assets 1023 ($419k)2022 Revenue 864 ($816k) Expenses 111 ($124k) Net assets 2565 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 268 ($253k) Expenses 131 ($146k) Net assets 541 ($222k)2024 Revenue 856 ($808k) Expenses 144 ($160k) Net assets 2124 ($871k)2025 Revenue 476 ($449k) Expenses 155 ($172k) Net assets 2802 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (476)Expenses (155)Net assets (2802)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $609k to $1.1M (+84%).

$193k
$176k
$171k
$217k
$609k
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

67% of Alaska Mountain & Wilderness Huts Association dba Alaska Huts Association’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$17k
’17
−$17k
’18
$2k
’19
$17k
’20
$363k
’21
$692k
’22
$107k
’23
$648k
’24
$276k
’25
16
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20212022202320242025
Listed88101010
Joined·+0+6+2+0
No longer listed·0420
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $8k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Alaska Mountain & Wilderness Huts Association dba Alaska Huts Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Alaska Mountain & Wilderness Huts Association dba Alaska Huts Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

53%
largest funder
96%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 91% · 2022 69% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

78% of Alaska Mountain & Wilderness Huts Association dba Alaska Huts Association's grant income comes from Alaska funders.

AK
WA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
Alaska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Alaska Mountain & Wilderness Huts Association dba Alaska Huts Association runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin62% · top quartile
Months of reserve15.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Alaska Mountain & Wilderness Huts Association dba Alaska Huts Association

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

21% of spending goes to programs.

Program 21%Management 79%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Alaska Mountain & Wilderness Huts Association dba Alaska Huts Association?
Alaska Mountain & Wilderness Huts Association dba Alaska Huts Association (Alaska) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $700,198 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($370,424). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Alaska Mountain & Wilderness Huts Association dba Alaska Huts Association have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $700,198 in grants to Alaska Mountain & Wilderness Huts Association dba Alaska Huts Association, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Alaska Mountain & Wilderness Huts Association dba Alaska Huts Association?
RASMUSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $370,424 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Alaska Mountain & Wilderness Huts Association dba Alaska Huts Association find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing