Idaho · Nonprofit
Idaho Trails Association
Idaho Trails Association (Idaho) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $536,217 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($159,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $486k
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $536k
- Net assets
- $380k
What Idaho Trails Association does
Mission
To keep Idaho's hiking trails open for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
2024 was a successful year for the Idaho Trails Association (ITA). With the help of 943 volunteers, ITA organized 98 projects in diverse geographic locations, from incredibly remote places to trails just outside Boise and Sandpoint, ranging from one-day projects to two week trips. The projects completed were all based on public lands throughout the state. After hikes, flights, or jet boat rides to the remote project sites, ITA crews worked a total of 16,614 hours, cleared 401 miles of trail, removed 5,601 logs, built or maintained 936 water bars, fixed 48,474 feet of tread, and brushed 94 miles of trail. (Continued on Schedule O) ITA organized their third and fourth Wilderness Immersion Trips, 10-day projects in the Frank Church Rover of No Return and Sawtooth Wilderness for volunteers to experience a lengthier immersion into wilderness and trail work. They also organized nine youth trips for teens aged 14-18 and six all-women's trips.
$344,684 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $344,684.
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.
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 $295k to $400k (+35%).
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: 2021 26% · 2022 30% · 2023 44% · 2024 39% · 2025 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Idaho Trails Association’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Melanie Vining
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $3k → $60k.
7 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Idaho Trails 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
Idaho Trails Association has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
39% 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 Idaho Trails Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 47% · 2019 48% · 2020 47% · 2021 39% · 2022 16% · 2023 25% — 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
29% of Idaho Trails Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
Idaho Trails Association draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Idaho, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
Idaho Trails Association holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Idaho Trails Association receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.1M
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 Idaho Trails 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.
In Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Idaho Trails Association: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Idaho Trails Association?
- Idaho Trails Association (Idaho) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $536,217 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($159,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Idaho Trails Association have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $536,217 in grants to Idaho Trails Association, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Idaho Trails Association?
- M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $159,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Idaho Trails Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. 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 30 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