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Ecotrust

ECOTRUST works across the region from california to alaska at the intersection of equity, the economy, and the environment.

$820k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$163k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$681kEmployment$621kFood & Nutrition$581kEducation$471kCivil Rights$219kArts & Culture$28k
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $705,794 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $820,094 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $114,300 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $173k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $517k
$18,073
Median grant
4
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
YAKUTAT TLINGIT TRIBE$10,000
KLAWOCK COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION$10,000
CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE UMATILLA INDIAN RESERVATION$10,000
02The need
03

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%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SALISH KOOTENAI: $50k → 18%SPRING ALASKA SCHREINER: $16k → 10%CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE UMATILLA INDIAN RESERVATION: $13k → 12%ECOTRUST FORESTS II LLC: $250k → 12%OREGON AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION: $25k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%CASCADE PACIFIC RC&D INC: $79k → 18%UNITED SOUTH AND EASTERN TRIBES: $12k → 14%AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $20k → 10%NORTHWEST NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP: $17k → 9%SWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL COMMUNITY: $80k → 11%NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%HERITAGE UNIVERSITY: $22k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%AHTNA HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 18%HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION: $20k → 18%LAND TO PLATE: $26k → 10%THE BLUEPRINT FOUNDATION: $23k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%AMERICAN INDIAN SCHLORSHIP: $20k → 10%SWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL COMMUNITY: $47k → 11%NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 18%CAL POLY HUMBOLD SPONSORED PROGRAMS FOUNDATION: $21k → 18%BLUEPRINT FOUNDATION: $18k → 12%SIUSLAW WATERSHED COUNCIL: $125k → 15%SWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL COMMUNITY: $30k → 11%NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%SALMON NATION TRUST: $18k → 12%MCKENZIE RIVER TRUST: $26k → 15%NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE: $20k → 12%THE BLUEPRINT FOUNDATION: $14k → 12%SIUSLAW WATERSHED COUNCIL: $109k → 15%WISDOM OF THE ELDERS: $13k → 12%SELF ENHANCEMENT INC: $17k → 12%SIUSLAW WATERSHED COUNCIL: $38k → 15%SELF ENHANCEMENT INC: $14k → 12%NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER: $163k → 12%NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER: $71k → 12%NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER: $12k → 12%MUDBONE GROWN LLC: $322k → 12%AFFILIATED TRIBES OF NORTHWEST INDIANS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $154k → 12%INTERTRIBAL TIMBER COUNCIL: $19k → 12%WISDOM OF THE ELDERS INC: $16k → 12%WISDOM WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: $15k → 12%WISDOM OF THE ELDERS INC: $12k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 19 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.

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

19
14

Total granted

$1.5M
$711k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+48%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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 INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $272k · revenue +167%
  • NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER
    5× · 2018–2024 · $264k · revenue +158%
  • SK
    SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC
    3× · 2017–2023 · $90k · revenue +24%

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.

1
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
2
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
3
Intertribal Agriculture Council

The intertribal agriculture council was founded in 1987 to pursue and promote the conservation, development and use of our agricultural resources of american indian and alaska native tribes.

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4
Oregon Websites and Watershed Project Inc

Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.

Environment
5
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.

Education
6
Puget Sound Restoration Fund

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

Environment
7
Northwest Environmental Defense Center

Nedc's mission is to work toward a future in which the pacific northwest leads the nation in developing, implementing & enforcing strong laws and regulations that protect the environment & human health, and where our governments &…

—
8
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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9
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…

Environment
10
Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild

Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.

Environment
11
Southern Oregon Land Conservancy Inc

To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.

Environment
12
Alaska Nannut Co-Management Council

The alaska nannut co-management council (ancc) was established to represent the collective alaska native voice in polar bear co-management. ancc is a tribally authorized organization with membership consisting of the 15 tribes in alaska…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Economic Development Corporation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsYouth Development ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Food Banks and Pantries
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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr13%8%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr19%48%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr16%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%9%<5yr13%6%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr19%57%20–35yr12%16%35–55yr16%6%55yr+

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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/43
the rest of the field
11%
2,771/25,388

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.

04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUDBONE GROWN LLC — $322,320 · OtherMUDBONE GROWN LLCECOTRUST FORESTS II LLC — $250,000 · OtherECOTRUST FORESTS II LLCSWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL COMMUNITY — $156,777 · OtherSWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL COMMUNITYSALMON NATION TRUST — $58,073 · OtherSALMON NATION TRUSTSELF ENHANCEMENT INC — $37,600 · Other+15 more — $202,297 · Other+15 moreNORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $140,000 · EducationNORTHWEST INDIAN COL…SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC — $90,000 · EducationSALISH KOOTENAI COLL…UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $70,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON…UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION — $70,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $40,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLL…HERITAGE UNIVERSITY — $30,118 · EducationHERITAGE UNIVERSITYCAL POLY HUMBOLDT SPONSORED PROGRAMS FOUNDATION — $21,189 · EducationSIUSLAW WATERSHED COUNCIL INC — $272,140 · EnvironmentSIUSLAW WATERSHE…McKenzie River Trust — $31,417 · EnvironmentMcKenzie River T…INTERTRIBAL TIMBER COUNCIL — $30,000 · EnvironmentINTERTRIBAL TIMB…NORTHWEST NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP — $23,645 · EnvironmentNORTHWEST NATURA…+3 more — $27,520 · Environment+3 moreNATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER — $264,360 · Youth DevelopmentNATIVE AMERIC…The Blueprint Foundation — $55,300 · Youth DevelopmentThe Blueprint…Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $154,000 · Community ImprovementAffiliated…Cascade Pacific RC&D Area — $79,474 · Community ImprovementCascade Pa…SUSTAINABLE NORTHWEST — $10,000 · Community ImprovementBLACK FARM BUREAU — $90,200 · Food & NutritionOREGON AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · Food & NutritionWisdom of the Elders Incorporated — $39,770 · Arts & CultureJilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSIUSLAW WATERSHED COUNCIL INC — $272,140 over 3y, 15% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER — $264,360 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetAffiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $154,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetNORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $140,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetBLACK FARM BUREAU — $90,200 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetSALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC — $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCascade Pacific RC&D Area — $79,474 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Blueprint Foundation — $55,300 over 3y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWisdom of the Elders Incorporated — $39,770 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetSELF ENHANCEMENT INC — $37,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMcKenzie River Trust — $31,417 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHERITAGE UNIVERSITY — $30,118 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERTRIBAL TIMBER COUNCIL — $30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNORTHWEST NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP — $23,645 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCAL POLY HUMBOLDT SPONSORED PROGRAMS FOUNDATION — $21,189 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH UMPQUA RURAL COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP — $11,220 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetJilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center — $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSUSTAINABLE NORTHWEST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOUR UNITED VILLAGES — $9,600 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMAGINE BLACK — $7,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTILLAMOOK ESTUARIES PARTNERSHIP — $6,700 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAFFILIATED TRIBES OF NORTHWEST INDIANS — $5,871 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 TrustThe Oregon Community …The Ford Family Found…Seeding JusticeThe Roundhouse Founda…First Nations Develop…The Collins FoundationNational Forest Found…Inatai FoundationNational Fish and Wil…Gray Family FoundationThe Bullitt Foundation
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

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 organization 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Tillamook Estuaries Partnership — 100% of income from government
  • Siuslaw Watershed Council Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Intertribal Timber Council — 100% of income from government
  • South Umpqua Rural Community Partnership — 100% of income from government
  • Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Economic Development Corporation — 28% of income from government
  • Native American Youth and Family Center — 23% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians — 10% of income from government
  • The Blueprint Foundation — 10% of income from government
  • McKenzie River Trust — 8% of income from government
  • Sustainable Northwest — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines