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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by OUTDOOR ALLIANCE.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,497,356
Total expenses
$1,695,788
Contributions and grants received
$1,469,615
Grants paid
$101,358
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$20,005
Other revenue
$7,736
Total assets, end of year
$1,373,612
Total liabilities, end of year
$8,005
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,365,607
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,201,299
Management and general expenses
$395,277
Fundraising expenses
$99,212
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,201,299

Program services were 70.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $54,000

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,415,615

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $94,510

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $20,005 · excluded $20,005

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: Other

    total $7,736 · related or exempt $7,736

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $7,736

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $101,358 · program services $101,358

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $209,650 · program services $132,891 · management and general $60,361 · fundraising $16,398

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $703,896 · program services $446,177 · management and general $202,663 · fundraising $55,056

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $25,599 · program services $16,237 · management and general $7,364 · fundraising $1,998

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $71,589 · program services $37,545 · management and general $29,506 · fundraising $4,538

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $70,659 · program services $43,826 · management and general $21,429 · fundraising $5,404

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $24,666 · management and general $24,666

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $199,617 · program services $196,898 · management and general $2,719

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $12,664 · program services $12,287 · fundraising $377

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $62,414 · program services $54,420 · management and general $7,414 · fundraising $580

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $14,957 · program services $1,680 · management and general $13,277

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $153,923 · program services $123,589 · management and general $18,160 · fundraising $12,174

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $2,642 · management and general $2,642

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $5,098 · program services $22 · management and general $5,076

  • 24a · Other expenses: Communications & Research

    total $30,395 · program services $30,395

  • 24b · Other expenses: Economic Study

    total $3,974 · program services $3,974

  • 24c · Other expenses: Development

    total $2,687 · fundraising $2,687

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $175,636 · end of year $100,909

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $981,890 · end of year $863,754

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $371,750 · end of year $355,000

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $1,096 · end of year $3,518

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $51,133

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $46,267

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $4,610 · end of year $4,866

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $42,764 · end of year $42,765

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $2,800 · end of year $2,800

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $16,507 · end of year $8,005

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,226,031 · end of year $772,599

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $338,008 · end of year $593,008

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Our mission is to unite the voices of outdoor enthusiasts to protect the humanpowered outdoor recreation experience and conserve Americas public lands.

  • Conservation Policy: Research, analysis, and evaluation of state and federal public land policy (including federal agency regulations and legislation) as it relates to conserving and protecting the outdoors and providing clean air and water, healthy ecosystems, and opportunities for sustainable human powered outdoor recreation. Develop community-wide conservation access policy priorities, including various protective land and water designations, and educate state and federal policymakers regarding the same. Provide training for local Grasstops leaders in areas of civic engagement, government processes, and community leadership. Collaborate with various conservation stakeholders, including the sportsmen community, traditional environmental community, and the outdoor business community.

    Expenses $693,113 · Grants $100,612

  • Data and Communications: Educate organizations and people within the human powered outdoor recreation community regarding conservation policy and related civic engagement opportunities. Develop internal organizational capacity regarding policy analysis, communications, and community organizing. Develop and provide professional support for state-level networks to enable local human powered organizations and local leaders to identify and pursue local conservation and sustainable recreational access priorities.

    Expenses $368,918 · Grants $389

  • Geographic Information System Laboratory: The GIS Lab enables community and policy makers to better evaluate, understand and visualize complex geospatial relationships that will result in better policy outcomes for public lands.

    Expenses $71,771 · Grants $357

  • Lobbying: We work to ensure the best protections for places that matter to the outdoor recreation community. Our campaigns advocate for stronger legislative protection for landscapes that support sustainable public access to the outdoors, including places that provide climbing, paddling, mountain biking, hiking, surfing, backcountry skiing, and mountaineering opportunities.

    Expenses $67,497

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Adam Cramer

    Chief Executive Officer

    Total calculated
    $215,115
    From this org
    $209,650
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,465
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $194,000
    Bonus
    $15,650
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $5,465
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $215,115

  • Tania Lown-Hecht

    VP Communications & Strategy

    Total calculated
    $117,982
    From this org
    $114,763
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,219
    Hours/week
    40

  • Louis Geltman

    VP Policy & Gov Affairs

    Total calculated
    $117,568
    From this org
    $114,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,068
    Hours/week
    40

  • Beth Spilman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lindsey Davis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Luther Propst

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jenni Henry

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Anneliese Steel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ben Gabriel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lindsay Knight

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Page

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brian Joyner

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Katherine Tsai

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Chad Nelsen

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tom Vogl

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
9 July 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.1
Source object
202521919349300017

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