Outdoor Alliance
“To protect public lands and waters for human-powered outdoor recreation.”
The work
What they do
Coalition of human-powered outdoor recreation organizations protecting public lands and waters.
Every year they sign one sentence and file it with the federal government: “Our mission is to unite the voices of outdoor enthusiasts to protect the humanpowered outdoor recreation experience and conserve Americas public lands.”
Where the money went, FY2025
The work, and what it cost
Bringing people into the fight
$891KConservation 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...
Including $90,000 granted onward, most of it $50,000 to The Mountaineers.
Read it as they filed it
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.
IRS Form 990 Part III, fiscal year 2025, signed under penalty of perjury.
Bringing people into the fight
$665KData and Communications: Educate organizations and people within the human powered outdoor recreation community regarding conservation policy and related civic engagement opportunities.
Read it as they filed it
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.
IRS Form 990 Part III, fiscal year 2025, signed under penalty of perjury.
Pressing the policymakers
$77KGeographic 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 publi...
Read it as they filed it
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.
IRS Form 990 Part III, fiscal year 2025, signed under penalty of perjury.
Pressing the policymakers
$9KLobbying: We work to ensure the best protections for places that matter to the outdoor recreation community.
Read it as they filed it
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.
IRS Form 990 Part III, fiscal year 2025, signed under penalty of perjury.
Follow the dollar
90 cents of every dollar goes to the work
That ratio is a good sign, not a scorecard. Plenty of great groups run leaner and lumpier. What matters is the extremes, and Outdoor Alliance is nowhere near one.
Backed on the record by Wilburforce Foundation, Walton Family Foundation and Pew Charitable Trusts, latest filing FY24.
$1,642,249 programs, $116,556 management, $73,199 fundraising. Form 990, FY2025.
The people
Who does the work
Honesty note: leadership comes from each year’s federal filing, so it can run a year behind. Orgs that claim their page can update it same-day. Work at OA? Claim this page.
Those 14 volunteers are people who decided this ground was theirs to defend. If OA is fighting for your place too, the matchmaker will find your way in.
Make it 15The filings
11 years of filings
11 years of filings
Total revenue by fiscal year, as filed. Point at the line for any year.
| Year | Revenue |
|---|---|
| 2014 | $799,955 |
| 2015 | $688,560 |
| 2016 | $435,838 |
| 2017 | $909,780 |
| 2018 | $871,102 |
| 2019 | $883,893 |
| 2020 | $1,318,217 |
| 2021 | $1,253,959 |
| 2022 | $1,330,523 |
| 2023 | $1,370,125 |
| 2025 | $1,747,439 |
From $800K in 2014 to $1.7M in FY25, across 11 public filings. The 2025 peak of $1.7M reads like one-time gifts, so trust the line, not the peak.
Ways in
How to help
90 cents of your dollar goes straight to the work above.
Give on their site ↗Show upVolunteer with themFind their volunteer door on their own site.
Find it on their site ↗SpeakComment and callOpen comment windows and call scripts for fights like these, ready to send.
Public Lands Action NetworkFollowWatch the mapEvery threatened place in the country, tracked, with who stands for each.
Threatened Lands MapStand with Outdoor Alliance
22 years on the ground, 14 volunteers, 90 cents of every dollar on the line. That is who is holding it. There is room for one more.