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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $705,794, the rows itemized in this filing. The $820,094 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $114,300 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
JILKAAT KWAAN HERITAGE CENTER$10,000
CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE UMATILLA INDIAN RESERVATION$10,000
YAKUTAT TLINGIT TRIBE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 19 repeat orgs$1.0M 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

19
14

Total granted

$1.5M
$711k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+102%

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
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.

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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund

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

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 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 &…

—
6
Wild Salmon Rivers

To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…

Environment
7
Puget Sound Restoration Fund

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

Environment
8
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
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
10000 Years Institute

10,000 Years Institute evaluates the ecological effects of human activities on natural environments, and promotes the maintenance and restoration of ecological integrity through the integration of reliable scientific information, sound…

Unclassified
11
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
12
Washington Water Trust

Wwt's mission is to protect and restore water in rivers and streams across washington state. washington water trust restores and protects water in rivers and streams and promotes sustainable freshwater management in washington, and, more…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sustainable Northwest; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ALASKA FOUNDATION: $70,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA…UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $70,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON…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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 ALASKA FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ecotrust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ecotrust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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