Missouri · Nonprofit
FOREST LAKE AREA TRAIL SYSTEM
FOREST LAKE AREA TRAIL SYSTEM (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $82 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($82). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $93k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $82
- Net assets
- $8k
What Forest Lake Area Trail System does
Mission
Build and maintain a network of recreational hiking and bicycling trails in an and around Kirksville, Missouri.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Continued maintenance of 10 miles of public trail located in Thousand Hills State Park and Missouri Department of Conservation Land. Maintenance is carried out through volunteer hours and use of FLATS equipment.
$0 spent0% of program spendingEngaged the service of Athco incorporated to build a large steel pavilion and decorative sign at the FLATS Theta-Psi Trailhead in Kirksville Missouri, funded with donations from individuals, local businesses and civic organizations. Total costs incurred in this project are $62557. Activity objective is to create a park for public use that will facilitate access to our trail with the intention of connecting it to Thousand Hills State Park. The trailhead and pavilion are used daily by residents of Kirksville for recreation.
$62,557 spent96% of program spendingConducted the 13th annual FLATS Trail Half Marathon, a footrace located within Thousand Hills State Park, one of the trails which our organization maintains. Approximately 80 participants registered and raced on September 30, 2023.
$2,784 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $65,341.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $40k to $8k (−79%).
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.
82% of FOREST LAKE AREA TRAIL SYSTEM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Daniel Martin
Board President (2020-Present)
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $47 → $19.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FOREST LAKE AREA TRAIL SYSTEM’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FOREST LAKE AREA TRAIL SYSTEM'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
FOREST LAKE AREA TRAIL SYSTEM's revenue fell 43% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like FOREST LAKE AREA TRAIL SYSTEM
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In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOREST LAKE AREA TRAIL SYSTEM?
- FOREST LAKE AREA TRAIL SYSTEM (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $82 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($82). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOREST LAKE AREA TRAIL SYSTEM have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $82 in grants to FOREST LAKE AREA TRAIL SYSTEM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOREST LAKE AREA TRAIL SYSTEM?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $82 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOREST LAKE AREA TRAIL SYSTEM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 1 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