How much did ECOTRUST grant in FY2024?

Education$461kEnvironment$385kYouth Development$320kCommunity Improvement$243kFood & Nutrition$115kArts & Culture$50kPhilanthropy$20kCivil Rights$8kOther$1000k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

scholarshipindianeducational nativegreen workforce

2019

watershed restorationindiangreen workforceforestry

2020

imaginealternativesblackworkforce

2021

strengthen ecologicalecological vitalityvitality northwestnorthwest forests

2022

blackfood

2023

workforce collaborativecollaborative membershipmembership collaborationscholarshipseducational nativegreen workforce

2024

systems subgrantworkforce collaborativecollaborative membershipmembership collaborationindigenous leadershipleadership awardsawards honorarium

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $16k
$10k–50k11 grants · $173k
$50k–250k5 grants · $517k

$18,073

Median grant

States reached

$38M

Total assets

Largest grants

NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER$163,360
AFFILIATED TRIBES OF NORTHWEST INDIANS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$154,000
CASCADE PACIFIC RC&D INC$79,474
BLACK FOOD SOVEREIGNTY COALITION$70,000
NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION$50,000
OREGON AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION$25,000
HERITAGE UNIVERSITY$22,198
CAL POLY HUMBOLD SPONSORED PROGRAMS FOUNDATION$21,189
SALMON NATION TRUST$18,073
SELF ENHANCEMENT INC$17,000
WISDOM OF THE ELDERS INC$15,500
THE BLUEPRINT FOUNDATION$14,000
KLAWOCK COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION$10,000
JILKAAT KWAAN HERITAGE CENTER$10,000
YAKUTAT TLINGIT TRIBE$10,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 97% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.5M · 19 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$731k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%

+69%

Still filing today

74%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $326k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

SW
SIUSLAW WATERSHED COUNCIL
3× · 2017–2019 · $272k · revenue +167%
NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER
5× · 2018–2024 · $264k · revenue +67%
NI
NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION
4× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +40%

Funded once

MG
MUDBONE GROWN LLC
one grant, 2019 · $322k
EF
ECOTRUST FORESTS II LLC
one grant, 2017 · $250k
LT
LAND TO PLATE
one grant, 2023 · $26k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically underserved communities throughout the Northwest.

Education

Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund

Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregons wildlands wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations

Environment

Agricultural Research Foundation

To encourage and engage activities in agriculture and natural resources throughout oregon.

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Whatcom Land Trust

Protecting the rich and vibrant lands for a healthy, thriving Whatcom County for generations to come.

Environment

Chugach Regional Resources Commission

The Chugach Regional Resources Commission (the Commission) was established for the purpose of providing formal advocacy to manage natural resources in ways consistent with the cultural traditions of the Chugach Native people.

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Intertribal Agriculture Council

Pursuing conservation, development & use of ag resources for the native american people

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Pacific Northwest Economic Region

To increase the economic well-being and quality of life for all citizens of the region; to coordinate provincial, territorial, and state policies throughout the region; to identify and promote "models of success and to serve as a conduit…

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Puget Sound Restoration Fund

To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound

Environment

Southeast Alaska Indiginous Transboundary Commissi

Protecting tribal land and waterways for future generations

Animals

Okanogan Land Trust

The trust collaborates with landowners, community members, organizations, and businesses to conserve and protect natural landscapes, wide open spaces, working farms and ranches, clean air and water, and abundant wildlife.

Environment

Taala Fund

To provide business development and build assets on the Quinault Indian Reservation and among Quinault tribal members improving the quality of life for its people and communities.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native American Youth and Family Center and the most unlike its peers is University of Oregon Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/42

the rest of the field

2,407/25,389

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/28

Grantees still filing

22/28

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,027,067Education$461,307Environment$384,722Youth Development$319,660Community Improvement$243,474Food & Nutrition$115,200Arts & Culture$49,770

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Meyer Memorial TrustOR31.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Meyer Memorial Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Gray Family Foundation · Inatai Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Seeding Justice · National Forest Foundation · Northwest Health Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation ECOTRUST funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

4rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: AFFILIATED TRIBES OF NORTHWEST INDIANS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 911923482 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on AFFILIATED TRIBES OF NORTHWEST INDIANS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 19% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Ecotrust?

Find your warmest path to Ecotrust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ECOTRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ecotrust?

More from the funding graph

ECOTRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ecotrust?

More from the funding graph