Oregon · Nonprofit
BLACK OREGON LAND TRUST
BLACK OREGON LAND TRUST (Oregon) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,583,815 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($450,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $470k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $732k
What Black Oregon Land Trust does
Mission
We ensure that black communities have secure and affordable land access, protected ecosystems, and earth stewardship skills to create thriving futures through unprecedented change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Land acquistion and management - our land acquisition program conserves working farmland and riparian areas and holds them permanently under trust, for the purposes of environmental conservation and providing affordable and secure land acess to black farming families. Our first land purchase was made in october 2022, preserving 10 acres of farmland, stream and forest that now houses a black farming family doing regenerative livestock work, and also serves as our first headquarters for educational programming.
$189,204 spent51% of program spendingMothers and families - mother and child-centered opportunities for climate-forward skill building, intergenerational, nature-based play, and family-centered workshops. We provide farm-grown food, agricultural skill shares, and community nourishment for local mothers of children ages 0-10, with opportunities for them to build land-based relationships in an integenerational setting.
$80,003 spent22% of program spendingYouth education - bolt's nature school program provides afterschool and seasonal farm-based education to youth ages 4-11, for students to learn climate resilient and ancestrally-rooted land based skills such as water conservation, plant life cycles, seed saving, livestock care, and natural dyeing. Nature school provides opportunities for urban youth to gain land based skills in a culturally-relevant environment, through play-based learning. Nature school served over 40 youth in 2024.
$59,598 spent16% of program spendingOther programs which include bass pdx, black farmer and third party grants.
$41,508 spentof which $1,170 as grants11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $370,313.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $627k to $1.0M (+66%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 0% · 2023 5% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BLACK OREGON LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Qiddist Ashe
Executive director
Board chair
Marquishia Winters
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $56k → $329k.
7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BLACK OREGON LAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BLACK OREGON LAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BLACK OREGON LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 65% · 2023 30% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
69% of BLACK OREGON LAND TRUST's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $733k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BLACK OREGON LAND TRUST has grown faster than half of the 2,975 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,975 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding BLACK OREGON LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$2.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BLACK OREGON LAND TRUST
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLACK OREGON LAND TRUST: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLACK OREGON LAND TRUST?
- BLACK OREGON LAND TRUST (Oregon) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,583,815 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($450,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACK OREGON LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,583,815 in grants to BLACK OREGON LAND TRUST, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACK OREGON LAND TRUST?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACK OREGON LAND TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 21 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing