How much does Ecotrust give?

Ecotrust reported 18 itemized grants totaling $705,794, out of $820,094 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Ecotrust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (26%), Employment (24%), Food & Nutrition (22%).

Who are Ecotrust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mudbone Grown LLC ($322k), Siuslaw Watershed Council Inc ($272k), Native American Youth and Family Center ($264k).

Does Ecotrust fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ecotrust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Meyer Memorial Trust, The Oregon Community Foundation, The Ford Family Foundation.

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Oregon · Public charity

Ecotrust

ECOTRUST works across the region from california to alaska at the intersection of equity, the economy, and the environment. We collaborate with partners to advance stewardship of lands and waters in ways that are ecologically and culturally restorative and racially and economically just; build broadly shared, intergenerational wealth for…

$820k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 18
Itemized grants FY2024: 12
Organizations funded FY2023: 25%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $706k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $18,073
Largest grant, FY2024: $163,360
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 12; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 4
Total assets, FY2024: $38M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Ecotrust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	18	$706k	50%
FY2023	12	$378k	25%
FY2022	4	$53k	100%
FY2021	2	$22k	50%
FY2020	7	$95k	71%
FY2019	10	$626k	60%
FY2018	9	$264k	44%
FY2017	10	$438k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$681kEmployment$621kFood & Nutrition$581kEducation$471kCivil Rights$219kArts & Culture$28k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Mudbone Grown LLC	$322,320	1	n/a
Siuslaw Watershed Council Inc	$272,140	3	15%
Native American Youth and Family Center	$264,360	5	1%
Ecotrust Forests II LLC	$250,000	1	n/a
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community	$156,777	3	n/a
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION	$154,000	1	19%
Northwest Indian College Foundation	$140,000	4	8%
Black Farm Bureau	$90,200	2	4%
Salish Kootenai College Inc	$90,000	3	0%
Cascade Pacific RC&D Area	$79,474	1	2%

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All grantees of Ecotrust by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Mudbone Grown LLC	$322,320	1	n/a
Siuslaw Watershed Council Inc	$272,140	3	15%
Native American Youth and Family Center	$264,360	5	1%
Ecotrust Forests II LLC	$250,000	1	n/a
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community	$156,777	3	n/a
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION	$154,000	1	19%
Northwest Indian College Foundation	$140,000	4	8%
Black Farm Bureau	$90,200	2	4%
Salish Kootenai College Inc	$90,000	3	0%
Cascade Pacific RC&D Area	$79,474	1	2%
University of Alaska Foundation	$70,000	2	0%
University of Oregon Foundation	$70,000	2	0%
Salmon Nation Trust	$58,073	2	n/a
The Blueprint Foundation	$55,300	3	11%
American Indian College Fund	$40,000	2	0%
Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated	$39,770	3	4%
Self Enhancement Inc	$37,600	3	0%
McKenzie River Trust	$31,417	2	1%
Heritage University	$30,118	2	0%
Intertribal Timber Council	$30,000	2	2%
Land to Plate	$25,822	1	n/a
Oregon Aquaculture Association	$25,000	1	n/a
Northwest Natural Resource Group	$23,645	2	2%
Wisdom Workforce Development	$22,500	2	n/a
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation	$22,500	2	n/a
Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation	$21,189	1	0%
Ahtna Heritage Foundation	$20,000	1	n/a
Sakari Farms	$16,364	1	n/a
United South and Eastern Tribes	$12,240	1	n/a
South Umpqua Rural Community Partnership	$11,220	1	6%
Klawock Cooperative Association	$10,000	1	n/a
Jilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center	$10,000	1	4%
Yakutat Tlinglt Tribe	$10,000	1	n/a
Sustainable Northwest	$10,000	1	0%
Our United Villages	$9,600	1	1%
Hoopa Valley Tribe	$8,000	1	n/a
Chatham School District	$8,000	1	n/a
Oregon Food Bank	$7,500	1	0%
Imagine Black	$7,500	1	4%
Tillamook Estuaries Partnership	$6,700	1	0%
Taste for Life	$6,000	1	n/a
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians	$5,871	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ecotrust supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Meyer Memorial TrustOR28.5× affinity12 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 Ford Family Foundation · Seeding Justice · The Roundhouse Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · The Collins Foundation · National Forest Foundation · Inatai Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Gray Family Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation

How this is measured

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

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About Ecotrust

How much does Ecotrust give?: Ecotrust reported 18 itemized grants totaling $705,794, out of $820,094 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ecotrust fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (26%), Employment (24%), Food & Nutrition (22%).
Who are Ecotrust's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mudbone Grown LLC ($322k), Siuslaw Watershed Council Inc ($272k), Native American Youth and Family Center ($264k).
Does Ecotrust fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ecotrust?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Meyer Memorial Trust, The Oregon Community Foundation, The Ford Family Foundation.
Where is Ecotrust based?: Ecotrust is based in OR.