Montana · Nonprofit
PEAK INNOVATIONS
PEAK INNOVATIONS (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $386,807 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($202,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $142k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $387k
- Net assets
- $179k
What Peak Innovations does
Mission
Peak Innovations is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to improving mountain experiences by rethinking the fundamentals of gear, guiding, education, and research making mountain travel safer and more accessible.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Peak Innovations operates as a single integrated program - mountain safety education & innovation through which all activities are delivered under a unified operational structure by the same personnel and resources. The program encompasses guiding, education, professional rescue training, online learning, and research, all in service of the organization's core mission. Rather than siloed departments, these activity areas are deeply interconnected and mutually reinforcing. We provided online educational content reached over 10,000 views across video platforms, niche technical equipment developed through the gear lab program distributed several hundred units and in-person programs delivered intensive, high-quality instruction with particular emphasis on professional rescue organizations whose training multiplies safety impact across the broader community. Peak Innovations delivered the following interconnected activities in 2025: guided expeditions & outings - professional mountain guiding services including running a course in squamish, bc, an alaska expedition, and guided outings throughout montana. Programs were offered at subsidized rates with flexible payment options to reduce…
$125,080 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $125,080.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $432 to $179k (+41380%).
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.
71% of PEAK INNOVATIONS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 PEAK INNOVATIONS’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
PEAK INNOVATIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 PEAK INNOVATIONS.
“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.
Where its funders are
52% of PEAK INNOVATIONS'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 $185k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Montana funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $202k 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
PEAK INNOVATIONS has grown faster than half 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
Organizations like PEAK INNOVATIONS
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PEAK INNOVATIONS: 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 PEAK INNOVATIONS?
- PEAK INNOVATIONS (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $386,807 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($202,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PEAK INNOVATIONS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $386,807 in grants to PEAK INNOVATIONS.
- Who is the largest funder of PEAK INNOVATIONS?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $202,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEAK INNOVATIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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