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Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc

Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $893,690 to it, the largest being LUBBE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($250,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$787k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$894k
Net assets
$2.3M
10/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%
01What it does

What Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc does

Mission

Mt. Ascutney Outdoors, Inc's mission is to promote vitality within the community by providing affordable and unique recreational, cultural and educational activities to local residents and visitors from the Upper Valley region of Vermont and beyond. Our events and activities are set amongst an exceptionally diverse ecosystem and stunning trail system, and the Ascutney Outdoor Center offers diverse programs for nature, conservation, cultural activities and events. Our community-driven approach is self-sustaining and designed to engage volunteers and passionate participants.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Mt. Ascutney Outdoors, Inc. offers a remarkable four-season venue for lovers of nature and outdoor activities. The community and visitors enjoy public access to trails, forests and fields for walking and hiking, mountain biking, trail running, alpine skiing and snow tubing, and back-country skiing and snowshoeing. Alpine skiers have been thrilled about Ascutney's varied terrain and friendly appeal for over sixty years. Building on this tradition, Mt. Ascutney Outdoors operates a 1,800' Doppelmayr T-bar. The T-bar serves a number of trails on the lower mountain slopes with skiing for all abilities. Our lifts are adjacent to the Ascutney Outdoors Center, which serves as a hub for recreational activities, community activities and a diverse array of events.We rely on the wonderful support and hard work of more than one hundred volunteers to run our operation and keep our operation sustainable.

    $304,155 spent$123,456 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $304,155.

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 ($495k) Expenses 100 ($137k) Net assets 100 ($413k)2018 Revenue 113 ($559k) Expenses 39 ($53k) Net assets 243 ($1.0M)2019 Revenue 137 ($680k) Expenses 87 ($118k) Net assets 379 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 91 ($452k) Expenses 159 ($218k) Net assets 436 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 56 ($279k) Expenses 165 ($225k) Net assets 449 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 55 ($272k) Expenses 209 ($286k) Net assets 445 ($1.8M)2023 Revenue 69 ($343k) Expenses 285 ($389k) Net assets 433 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 80 ($395k) Expenses 265 ($362k) Net assets 443 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 73 ($360k) Expenses 249 ($340k) Net assets 449 ($1.9M)2026 Revenue 159 ($787k) Expenses 235 ($321k) Net assets 563 ($2.3M)
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Revenue (159)Expenses (235)Net assets (563)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 2017 to 2018, from $415k to $1.1M (+157%).

$415k
$1.1M
$1.6M
$1.8M
$1.9M
$1.8M
$1.8M
$1.8M
$1.9M
$2.3M
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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
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 8% · 2021 5% · 2023 34% · 2024 28% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

82% of Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$359k
’17
$506k
’18
$561k
’19
$235k
’20
$54k
’21
−$14k
’22
−$46k
’23
$33k
’24
$20k
’25
$465k
’26
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.

Board chair

Steve Wood

Chair

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.

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Listed119109101012121110
Joined·+2+3+1+2+1+4+1+4+2
No longer listed·422112153
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $46k → $63k.

6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc’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

Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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

48% 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 Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc.

28%
largest funder
57%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 35% · 2019 50% · 2020 41% · 2021 32% · 2022 63% · 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

36% of Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 7 states in all.

ME
VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
CT

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

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Vermont out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $407k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 442 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin59% · top quartile
Months of reserve15.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 442 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Government funding Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $36k on record.

State$36k
16
20
Top programs
  • Grants to Municipalities$36k

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 Mt Ascutney Outdoors 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 Vermont

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

74%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc?
Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $893,690 to it, the largest being LUBBE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($250,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $893,690 in grants to Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc?
LUBBE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 19 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