Outdoor Alliance
“To protect public lands and waters for human-powered outdoor recreation.”
10 comments to the agencies, 90 cents of every dollar to the work.
The work
What they do
Coalition of human-powered outdoor recreation organizations protecting public lands and waters.
Where the money went, FY2025
The work, and what it cost
Conservation Policy
$891K, 49% of spendingResearch, 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…
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.
Data and Communications
$665K, 36% of spendingEducate 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.
Geographic Information System Laboratory
$77K, 4% of spendingThe 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.
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.
Lobbying
$9,067, under 1% of spendingFollow the dollar
90 cents of every dollar goes to the work
A good sign, not a scorecard: what matters is the extremes, and this is nowhere near one.
$1,642,249 programs, $116,556 management, $73,199 fundraising. Form 990, FY2025.
The backers
Backed on the record by Wilburforce Foundation, Walton Family Foundation and Pew Charitable Trusts, latest filing FY24.
The people
Who does the work
Honesty note: leadership comes from each year’s federal filing, so it can run a year behind. If it’s out of date, tell us. Work at the Outdoor Alliance? Claim this page.
Those 14 volunteers are people who decided this ground was theirs to defend. If the Outdoor Alliance is fighting for your place too, the matchmaker will find your way in.
Find your way inThe filings
11 years of filings
Total revenue by fiscal year, as filed. Point at or tap 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 (none on record for 2024). FY25 is the highest year on file.
The record
On the record with the agencies
10 comments on federal decisions since 2023, each filed under the group’s own name on regulations.gov. The latest on decisions we track:
Year by year
The record, in order
- 2004Outdoor Alliance is formed.the directory; the return’s own formation year is 2013
- 2022First appears in Wilburforce Foundation’s grants.the funder’s return
- 2023First appears in Pew Charitable Trusts’ grants.the funder’s return
- 2024First appears in Walton Family Foundation’s grants.the funder’s return
- 20254 comments to federal agencies, the Bureau of Land Management among them, under the group’s own name.regulations.gov
- 20266 comments, most to the Bureau of Land Management, under the group’s own name.regulations.gov
Green, a funder’s return. Hollow, a filing. Every row is a record we hold: 10 comments filed under its own name, 3 funders whose returns name it. Nothing here is written from memory.
Under threat right now
The most urgent fights on the record
Open comment windows first, then live federal cases. Each opens the groups defending it.
- Comments close Oct 16 · 9 days leftCumberland Island National SeashoreGeorgia
- Comments close Oct 23White Mountain National ForestNew Hampshire
- Comments close Oct 26Gifford Pinchot National ForestWashington
- Comments close Nov 2Gates of the Arctic (Ambler Road)Alaska
Every place under threat, the fifty states and the wildlife, each with who’s on the record for it.
Ways in
How to help
Straight to their own donation page. Your dollar never passes through us.
Give on their site ↗Show upVolunteer with themFind their volunteer door on their own site.
Find it on their site ↗FollowWatch the mapEvery threatened place in the country, tracked, with who stands for each.
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The mission is theirs. The backing is yours.