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BRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER FOUNDATION

BRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER FOUNDATION (Wyoming) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $692,059 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ($542,159). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$383k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$692k
Net assets
$274k
9/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 56%
01What it does

What Bridger-Teton Avalanche Center Foundation does

Mission

To provide funding in support of the bridger-teton national forest avalanche center(btac)

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operational funding via a collection agreement with the bridger- teton national forest which operates a network of remote weather stations issuing daily avalanche hazard bulletins and providing other critical decision making information for the travelers in avalanche terrain in addition to providing avalanche hazard education opportunities and direct support to both human-powered and mech- anized users.

    $334,556 spent$303,442 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $334,556.

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 ($89k) Expenses 100 ($81k) Net assets 100 ($56k)2018 Revenue 145 ($129k) Expenses 147 ($119k) Net assets 117 ($66k)2019 Revenue 153 ($136k) Expenses 149 ($121k) Net assets 145 ($82k)2020 Revenue 164 ($146k) Expenses 172 ($139k) Net assets 156 ($88k)2021 Revenue 204 ($182k) Expenses 156 ($126k) Net assets 254 ($143k)2022 Revenue 297 ($264k) Expenses 269 ($218k) Net assets 0 ($0)2023 Revenue 316 ($281k) Expenses 334 ($271k) Net assets 353 ($199k)2024 Revenue 464 ($413k) Expenses 401 ($325k) Net assets 509 ($288k)2025 Revenue 430 ($383k) Expenses 490 ($397k) Net assets 485 ($274k)
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Revenue (430)Expenses (490)Net assets (485)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 $143k to $0 (−100%).

$56k
$66k
$82k
$88k
$143k
$0
$199k
$288k
$274k
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2023 11% · 2024 24% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of BRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,485 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’17
$10k
’18
$16k
’19
$6k
’20
$55k
’21
$46k
’22
$10k
’23
$88k
’24
−$14k
’25
8.3
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.

Board chair

Mitch Dann

Board chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed11121013
Joined·+2+2+3
No longer listed·140
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $53k → $158k.

4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 BRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER FOUNDATION’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

BRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

91% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER FOUNDATION.

78%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 99% · 2020 96% · 2021 97% · 2022 78% · 2023 68% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

50% of BRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

88% of BRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $81k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Wyoming, across 6 states.

ID
MI
WY
NJ
CO
TX

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Wyoming out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $611k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

BRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 8%Fundraising 7%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds BRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER FOUNDATION?
BRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER FOUNDATION (Wyoming) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $692,059 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ($542,159). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $692,059 in grants to BRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER FOUNDATION?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE is the largest funder on record, with $542,159 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wyoming. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 12 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