Alaska · Nonprofit
VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE
VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE (Alaska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,742 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($21,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $256k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $63k
What Valdez Adventure Alliance does
Mission
Valdez Adventure Alliance seeks to improve quality of life through equitable access to outdoor recreation resources education and events. We promote community development through outdoor experiences and events that improve physical and mental health. We develop improve maintain and manage outdoor recreation infrastructure. We implement education and activities in environmental stewardship skills and safety. We advocate for increasing access and participation in outdoor recreation for everyone including under-represented populations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
TRAILS: We are currently rebuilding Gold Beach Trail and Gold Creek Trail. This requires enormous amounts of work to get and implement grants to do this trail rebuilding. We actively engage community members of all ages as volunteers on trails. We have produced and continue to add to a Field Guide that focuses on traditional Native uses of the plants along the trail. We continue to update produce and distribute the brochure we created about Health Benefits of Trails. We distribute trail and outdoor recreation education materials at all outreach booths all year. We employ 15 people to do this work.
$116,071 spent$161,312 earned by the program58% of program spendingEVENTS: We hosted the Valdez Fat Bike Bash event where we gave out free safety and educational materials to attendees of all ages. This event has several activities that encourage family building including a free Friday evening ride and a Saturday evening social event. This event is also an important boost to the local businesses and thus their employees. Bike Bash served 45 people. We hosted Odyssey Off-Trail Race where we also gave out educational and safety materials. This served 25 people. Disc Golf
$41,457 spent$24,743 earned by the program21% of program spendingPARKS We manage Worthington Glacier State Recreation Site Blueberry Lake Campgrounds and Shoup Bay Cabins. All of these parks are owned by the State of Alaska but the State was going to close them because they are remote and difficult and expensive to maintain. Hosts are trained with an educational script and information to share with guests and safety and educational materials are given out and or posted at all locations. At Worthington Glacier we served about 32,000 people; Blueberry Lake Campgrounds we served about 3,500 people; Cabins we served about 700 people.
$40,244 spent$56,039 earned by the program20% of program spendingOutreach Program provides communications educational materials resources to the public.
$3,279 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $201,051.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $21k to $63k (+197%).
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 67% · 2021 48% · 2022 6% · 2023 8% · 2024 11% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $974 → $1k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE’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
VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
31% 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 VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 93% · 2022 59% · 2023 97% — broadly stable.
“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
69% of VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $159 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
VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE
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 Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE: 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 VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE?
- VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE (Alaska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,742 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($21,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $41,742 in grants to VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE?
- RASMUSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $21,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 4 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