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The Backcountry Charitable Trust Grants

Private foundation · EIN 26-1214808 · IRS 990-PF filings through tax year 2025

Total grants paid
$1.3M
Grants reported
12
Typical grant
$18.5K
Future commitments
Not reported

Future commitments are grants the foundation has reported but not yet paid.

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Original filing text

Reported organization name: THE BACKCOUNTRY CHARITABLE TRUST

Giving by tax year

Year-level totals across every reported grant in this profile — a summary, not a filter. The awards further down are the largest individual grants across all years, not each year's complete list.

Tax yearGrants paidAmount
20258$627K
20244$666.3K

Where The Backcountry Charitable Trust gives

States of grant recipients reported on the foundation's 990-PF filings, by dollars received.

Largest reported grants

Historical awards reported to the IRS. These are examples of past giving, not open opportunities.

USA Nordic Sport

Park City, UT

$646KTax year 2024

General

USA Nordic Sport

Park City, UT

$415KTax year 2025

General

Innerscience Research Fund

Yelm, WA

$72KTax year 2025

General

Nuclear Threat Initiative

Washington, DC

$50KTax year 2025

General

Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

Philadelphia, PA

$50KTax year 2025

General

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About this data

Figures are aggregated from The Backcountry Charitable Trust's IRS Form 990-PF electronic filings (2 filings on file, most recent tax year 2025). Totals reflect grants the foundation reported as paid, and can lag the current year because foundations file annually and often on extension. Source: IRS 990-PF filing on ProPublica. Raw e-file archive (ZIP) — a large IRS yearly archive download.

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