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National Park Trust Inc

To preserve parks today and create park stewards for tomorrow.

$544k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$55k
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 2025.

Environment$2.1MRecreation & Sports$590kPublic Benefit$422kPhilanthropy$152kHuman Services$115kEducation$110kArts & Culture$82kYouth Development$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $206,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $543,690 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $337,690 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $137k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS (TAPS)$55,000
PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC$45,500
OUR MILITARY KIDS$40,000
ARMED SERVICES ARTS PARTNERSHIP$20,000
THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC$19,000
GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS INSTITUTE INC$12,500
ACCOKEEK FOUNDATION$8,000
HCST EXPLORE MIDDLE SCHOOL$6,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%GLEN CANYON OUTDOOR ACADEMY SCHOOL: $27k → 16%LOWELL PARKS AND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $25k → 8%MISSISSIPPI PARK CONNECTION: $25k → 14%STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER INC: $25k → 6%POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE ASSOCIATION: $25k → 8%SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS FUND: $25k → 10%COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $25k → 10%SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $25k → 10%FRIENDS OF EASTERN CALIFORNIA MUSEUM: $25k → 11%REDWOOD PARKS CONSERVANCY: $25k → 17%HALEAKALA CONSERVANCY INC: $25k → 9%ROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS: $25k → 18%TIMUCUAN PARKS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%NORTH COUNTRY TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC: $23k → 11%ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC: $25k → 10%THE BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS & TEACHING IN: $24k → 17%ZION NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION: $25k → 10%CHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER: $25k → 13%Wilderness Land Trust: $150k → 6%KNOX COUNTY CISMA: $24k → 15%APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY (VEN): $25k → 9%OUR MILITARY KIDS: $50k → 6%TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS (TAPS): $68k → 7%GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $24k → 11%THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $480k → 9%TEACHING RESPONSIBLE EARTH EDUCATION: $25k → 23%PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $46k → 8%LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $24k → 19%APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB: $25k → 16%MISSISSIPPI PARK CONNECTION: $25k → 14%POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE ASSOCIATION: $25k → 8%RECREATE RESPONSIBILITY COALITION CO EMBRACING THE BEAR LLC: $62k → 14%NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $169k → 14%CHATTAHOOCHEE NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $25k → 13%OUR MILITARY KIDS: $40k → 6%TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS (TAPS): $65k → 7%THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $53k → 9%PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $42k → 8%NATUREBRIDGE: $25k → 8%NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $155k → 14%OUR MILITARY KIDS: $40k → 6%TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS (TAPS): $55k → 7%DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $91k → 14%OUR MILITARY KIDS: $40k → 6%TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS (TAPS): $40k → 7%NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $84k → 14%National Park Service: $80k → 14%NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $42k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MN
WI
MI
MA
NV
IN
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
LA
GA
FL
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 20 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
40

Total granted

$2.6M
$997k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+21%

Still filing today

85%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationPublic BenefitArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    2× · 2018–2019 · $533k · revenue +119%
  • BS
    BLUE STAR FAMILIES INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $422k · revenue +397%
  • OM
    OUR MILITARY KIDS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $170k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WILDERNESS LAND TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +77%
  • RR
    RECREATE RESPONSIBILITY COALITION CO EMBRACING THE BEAR LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $62k
  • LP
    LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · $46k · revenue -17%
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
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust

The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust leads and inspires action to conserve and enhance the landscape of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.

Environment
2
Glacier National Park Conservancy

The glacier national park conservancy works to preserve and protect glacier national park for future generations.

Recreation & Sports
3
Partnership for the National Trails System Inc

Our mission is to connect, strengthen and amplify a vibrant network of partners united to preserve, enhance and promote national historic & scenic trails.

Environment
4
Rocky Mountain Conservancy

The rocky mountain conservancy promotes stewardship of rocky mountain national park and similar lands through education and philanthropy.

Recreation & Sports
5
Pacific Crest Trail Association

The pacific crest trail association's mission is to advocate for the pacific crest trail as an inspirational outdoor experience, to connect people to the pct, and to conserve the trail.

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6
Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics

Grounded in science and driven by education and stewardship, leave no trace empowers people to protect the outdoor places we share, ensuring a sustainable future for the environment and our collective outdoor experiences.

Environment
7
The Jmt Wilderness Conservancy

Working to restore the watersheds, wilderness, and wildlife in the high sierra nevada following the john muir trail (est. 1915) for all life in california.

Environment
8
Parks California

As california state parks' statutory non-profit partner, we have a clear mission - to help strengthen parks and inspire all people to experience these extraordinary places.

Environment
9
Washington Trails Association

Washington trails association is on a mission to connect everyone to the outdoors and build a community that gives back to trails and public lands.

—
10
National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports
11
National Park Foundation

As the official philanthropic partner of the national park service, the national park foundation generates private support and builds strategic partnerships to protect and enhance america's national parks for present and future generations.

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12
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naturebridge; the most unlike its peers is Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc. 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

54 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. 54 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
41/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $533,050 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDTHE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST: $150,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS LAND TRUSTMISSISSIPPI PARK CONNECTION: $50,000 · EnvironmentPoint Reyes National Seashore Association: $50,000 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mountain Club: $47,000 · EnvironmentLOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST: $45,600 · Environment+17 more: $477,800 · Environment+17 moreNATIONAL MALL AND MEMORIAL PARKS: $625,655 · OtherNATIONAL MALL AND MEMORIAL PARKSTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS (TAPS): $133,000 · OtherTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVO…RECREATE RESPONSIBILITY COALITION CO EMBRACING THE BEAR LLC: $61,845 · OtherICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 · OtherACCOKEEK FOUNDATION INC: $42,500 · Other+17 more: $336,405 · Other+17 moreBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC: $421,947 · Public BenefitBLUE STAR FAMI…+3 more: $32,000 · Public Benefit+3 moreTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $117,500 · HealthPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $97,500 · HealthOUR MILITARY KIDS INC: $170,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $25,000 · PhilanthropyGLEN CANYON OUTDOOR ACADEMY: $26,912 · EducationSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $25,000 · EducationLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $24,000 · EducationArmed Services Arts Partnership: $20,000 · EducationEDUCATION FOR CHANGE: $7,000 · EducationAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsCHATTAHOOCHEE NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF MAMMOTH CAVE NATIONAL PARK: $13,000 · Recreation & Sports
Environment$1,353,450Other$1,244,405Public Benefit$453,947Health$215,000Philanthropy$195,000Education$102,912Recreation & Sports$63,000

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 budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $533,050 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC: $421,947 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetOUR MILITARY KIDS INC: $170,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST: $150,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $117,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $97,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetMISSISSIPPI PARK CONNECTION: $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPoint Reyes National Seashore Association: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $47,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST: $45,600 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetZION NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS AND TEACHING: $44,300 over 2y, 20% of budgetACCOKEEK FOUNDATION INC: $42,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAKAKA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL FORESTS: $40,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetRock Creek Conservancy Inc: $39,100 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $39,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $33,500 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetGLEN CANYON OUTDOOR ACADEMY: $26,912 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTIMUCUAN PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTeaching Responsible Earth Education TREE: $25,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetREDWOOD PARKS CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EASTERN CALIFORNIA MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetROSIE THE RIVETER TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS INSTITUTE INC: $24,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSanta Monica Mountains Fund: $24,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA: $23,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY TRAIL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $23,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetArmed Services Arts Partnership: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN HIKING SOCIETY: $17,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION: $14,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MAMMOTH CAVE NATIONAL PARK: $13,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARIZONA TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHISTORIC WHIDBEY: $11,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetWILDERNESS LOUISVILLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

National Park Foundat…National Fish and Wil…Community InitiativesPatagoniaorgPartnership for the N…National Environmenta…The Outdoor FoundationThe Nature ConservancyRei Cooperative Actio…American TrailsThe San Francisco Fou…Ibm International Fou…
National Park FoundationDC53.1× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Park Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Community Initiatives · Patagoniaorg · Partnership for the National Trails System Inc · National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Inc · The Outdoor Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Rei Cooperative Action Fund · American Trails · The San Francisco Foundation · Ibm International 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 National Park Trust Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Park Trust Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 44%
  • Rock Creek Conservancy Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Accokeek Foundation Inc: 44% of income from government
  • American Hiking Society: 14% of income from government
  • Living Classrooms Foundation: 7% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 61 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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