Wisconsin · Nonprofit
ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC
ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,666,706 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($1,761,020). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Ice Age Trail Alliance Inc does
Mission
The mission of the alliance is to conserve, create, maintain, and promote the ice age national scenic trail.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Trails - the alliance has built and maintainsed more than 700 miles of the ice age national scenic trail. Alliance staff coordinate this effort among 19 volunteer chapters and volunteers from across the upper midwest. In addition to trail construction, maintenance, stewardship, and outreach and educational activities, the alliance added appoximately 6.7 miles of new trail and started the process to build another 15 new miles in the future. All told, the alliance's 1,986 volunteers contributed 103,439 hours - a new record.
$1,076,699 spent40% of program spendingLands - the alliance completed eleven land transactions while helping partners complete three additional acquisitions and thereby protected 188 acres of land and added an estimated 3.2 miles of future trail. Properties were protected in both fee and easement. All these lands will host a variety of public recreational opportunities that include the ice age national scenic trail. The alliance also hosted 3 habitat improvement projects, designed to remove invasive species, collected 308 pounds of native seeds, and burned more than 300 acres.
$859,958 spent32% of program spendingOutreach - the alliance continues to engage new members and trail users. 2024 included the 5th mammoth hike challenge with more than 9,000 registrants with 78% being new. Our saunters and think outside youth education work drew more than 10,000 youth to the trail. We increased the number of communities designated as ice age trail communities to 24. Membership continued to grow to 6,945 members. Ice age trail license plates continue to generate revenue and marketing opportunities for the alliance.
$749,269 spent$212,247 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,685,926.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $11M to $13M (+18%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 39% · 2018 28% · 2019 19% · 2020 25% · 2021 17% · 2022 18% · 2023 14% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Luke Kloberdanz
Executive director & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $80k → $1.1M.
15 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 funders by total. 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
ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
73% 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 ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 35% · 2019 62% · 2020 36% · 2021 61% · 2022 48% · 2023 33% — 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
32% of ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
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
ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Government funding ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.9M on record.
- Department of the Interior$2.8M
- Department of Agriculture$63k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC
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.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Swansons Northwoods LLC · disregarded
- Goths Northwoods LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC?
- ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,666,706 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($1,761,020). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $5,666,706 in grants to ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC?
- NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,761,020 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 75 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing