New Hampshire · Nonprofit
UPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION
UPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION (New Hampshire) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $814,702 to it, the largest being Share Winter Foundation ($300,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $815k
- Net assets
- $622k
What Upper Valley Snow Sports Foundation does
Mission
The Upper Valley Snow Sports Foundation's mission is to sustain whaleback ski area as a community sports facility that welcomes everyone to discover a lifelong joy of snow sports.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Upper Valley Snow Sports Foundation maintains and operates whaleback mountain, a multi-use, community supported snow venue. We offer affordable ski and snowboard opportunities for all members of the upper valley region of nh and vt. As a result of the generosity of our community, whaleback is able to offer affordable winter activities for all members of the community, especially children, school groups and alpine racing clubs. The learning center at whaleback mountain offers winter camps, after school programs, clinics and lessons. Financial aid is available upon request in order to make these activities affordable and accessible for all members of the community.
$1,138,190 spent$862,329 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,138,190.
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 2022 to 2023, from $826k to $1.1M (+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: 2020 1% · 2021 27% · 2022 18% · 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of UPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Jon Hunt
Executive director
Board chair
Danielaa Reichstetter
President/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $10k → $241k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 UPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION’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
UPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 UPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 62% · 2021 57% · 2022 45% · 2023 24% — 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
50% of UPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
UPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside New Hampshire, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $123k 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
UPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION
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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION: 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 UPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION?
- UPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION (New Hampshire) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $814,702 to it, the largest being Share Winter Foundation ($300,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $814,702 in grants to UPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION?
- Share Winter Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 17 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