Vermont · Nonprofit
Upper Valley Trails Alliance Inc
Upper Valley Trails Alliance Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $997,815 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($266,955). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $482k
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $998k
- Net assets
- $636k
What Upper Valley Trails Alliance Inc does
Mission
We advocate for the use, maintenance and development of trails in the region. Through education, outreach, and stewardship, we promote active lifestyles through trail use in all seasons, connect people and places through a regional trail network, and lead a coalition of local trail groups and advocates.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Trail Services: We are the premier trail services organization in the Upper Valley completely dedicated to trails. For more than 25 years, we have been building, maintaining and improving trails. We work with municipalities, conservation commissions, trail groups, nonprofits, private landowners, and others to provide the highest quality trail services. Our 2025 trail projects included: (a) building the Village Trail connecting Vershire Town Center and community resources to an expanding trail network; (b) improving a portion of the wheelchair accessible River Loop Trail on the Montshire Science Museum campus; (c) repairing and improving steep and eroding sections of the Cross Rivendell Trail on Mt. Cube; and (d) creating the new Kendall Connector Trail to safely and sustainably link two of the Hanover Conservancy's beautiful properties via the historic Harris Trail.
$180,953 spent$139,824 earned by the program52% of program spendingEducation and Outreach programs include: (1) the Upper Valley High School Trail Corps program; (2) Passport to Winter Fun; (3)"Trail Finder", and (4) outdoor events. - Our High School Trail Corps program provides an opportunity for high school students to spend time outdoors while learning to build trails in a sustainable way. Each year, our trail corp crews help improve more than 50 miles of trails. - Passport to Winter Fun is a fitness incentive program designed to keep children physically active during the winter season. Each participant receives a booklet in which they track their physical activity. There are prizes based on achievement and participants who complete the program are entered into a raffle. During 2025, we distributed more than six thousand booklets to children in schools and home school groups. - Trail Finder, which has been named the "official trail resource" for NH and VT, is a comprehensive online resource that contains detailed trail maps, directions to trailheads, current trail alerts and other useful information. Trail Finder had more than 300,000 users in 2025. - Outdoor events include the Tour de Taste which is a scenic pedaling picnic through the…
$170,190 spent$3,430 earned by the program48% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $351,143.
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 2017 to 2018, from $403k to $496k (+23%).
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 18% · 2021 20% · 2022 2% · 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of Upper Valley Trails Alliance Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Karen Kaliski
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $71k → $136k.
6 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Trails Alliance Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
Upper Valley Trails Alliance Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
66% 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 Trails Alliance Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 43% · 2019 70% · 2020 19% · 2021 21% · 2022 43% · 2023 47% — 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
63% of Upper Valley Trails Alliance Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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 Trails Alliance Inc draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $386k 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 Trails Alliance Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Upper Valley Trails Alliance Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $170k on record.
- Grants$154k
- Small Tools$7k
- Software - Desktop$4k
- Other Purchased Services$3k
- Subscriptions$3k
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.
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In Vermont
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 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Upper Valley Trails Alliance Inc?
- Upper Valley Trails Alliance Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $997,815 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($266,955). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Upper Valley Trails Alliance Inc have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $997,815 in grants to Upper Valley Trails Alliance Inc, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Upper Valley Trails Alliance Inc?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $266,955 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Upper Valley Trails Alliance 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.
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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 37 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