Oregon · Nonprofit
WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER
WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,540 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR AVALANCHE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC ($12,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $119k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $101k
What Wallowa Avalanche Center does
Mission
Education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided avalanche forecasting, observations and awareness presentations throughout the winter season. From Nov 12 to Apr 13 WAC provided 299 avalanche forecasts across four zones, 104 general advisories across four zones, 1 avalanche warning, 159 snowpack observations (48 from Forecasters; 15 from Pro Observers), and 4 avalanche awareness presentations to 120 people. Expenses include payment for Forecasters, Professional Observers, Awareness Presentations, and field instrumentation. Stipends are also provided for forecasting mileage.
$22,473 spent39% of program spendingProvided Avalanche courses: Taught 4 non-motorized AIARE Level 1&2 Avalanche Courses, 2 motorized AIARE Level 1&2 Avalanche Courses, and 2 Companion Rescue classes. A total of 108 students taught through AIARE. Expenses include AIARE Instructor payroll, personal snowmobile use and fuel, WAC snowmobile fuel and maintenance, and AIARE fees.
$32,700 spent56% of program spendingProvided 2 Snowmobile Riding Clinics across 1 weekend which taught better and safer riding practices to a total of 24 people. Taught 2 non-AIARE Companion Rescue Clinics to 35 students. Expenses include Clinic Instructor fees, lodging, and a gas stipend.
$3,066 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $58,239.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $84k to $101k (+21%).
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.
48% of WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $12 → $16.
1 of 3 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 WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER’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
WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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 WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40 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
WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$10k
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 WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER: 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 WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER?
- WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,540 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR AVALANCHE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC ($12,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $17,540 in grants to WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER?
- AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR AVALANCHE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WALLOWA AVALANCHE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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