Washington · Nonprofit
BLUE MOUNTAIN LAND TRUST
BLUE MOUNTAIN LAND TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,278,886 to it, the largest being BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,284,048). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $858k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Blue Mountain Land Trust does
Mission
We protect the lands and waters of the blue mountain region for people, agriculture, and wildlife. We do this through conservation, stewardship, and community engagement across southeast washington and eastern oregon.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Conservation - bmlt made significant progress on several conservation easement acquisitions that will protect land and water in both oregon and washington when they close in 2025. Projects include both habitat conservation and farmland preservation.
$200,015 spent$72,444 earned by the program38% of program spendingRecreation - bmlt repaired and stewarded recreational trails in the north fork umatilla wilderness for accessible outdoor access for the public. Bmlt also maintained and expanded winter trail access at the horseshoe prairie nordic ski area and constructed a new seasonal warming hut. Provided opportunities for the public to engage with natural resource experts and get hands on experience working outdoors at volunteer events.
$194,359 spent$12,815 earned by the program37% of program spendingStewardship - bmlt stewarded its more than 23,327 acres of protected lands including completing annual monitoring visits to ensure compliance with conservation easement terms. Staff conducted on-property research to assess riparian and forest habitat conditions, document bird and plant species, and worked with other conservation partners to plan for future restoration projects.
$128,194 spent25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $522,568.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $940k to $1.9M (+105%).
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: 2017 37% · 2018 21% · 2019 48% · 2020 30% · 2021 16% · 2022 3% · 2023 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of BLUE MOUNTAIN LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Amanda Martino
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $77k → $334k.
6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 BLUE MOUNTAIN 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
BLUE MOUNTAIN LAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 BLUE MOUNTAIN LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 77% · 2019 66% · 2020 52% · 2021 84% · 2022 65% · 2023 59% — 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.
How long its funders stay
64% of BLUE MOUNTAIN LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
62% of BLUE MOUNTAIN LAND TRUST's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $859k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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
BLUE MOUNTAIN LAND TRUST has grown faster than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding BLUE MOUNTAIN LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record — $547k federal, $1.1M state.
- Department of Agriculture$547k
- LAND USE RIGHTS>=$5K$819k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$285k
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 BLUE MOUNTAIN 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLUE MOUNTAIN 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 BLUE MOUNTAIN LAND TRUST?
- BLUE MOUNTAIN LAND TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,278,886 to it, the largest being BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,284,048). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BLUE MOUNTAIN LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,278,886 in grants to BLUE MOUNTAIN LAND TRUST, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE MOUNTAIN LAND TRUST?
- BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,284,048 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE MOUNTAIN LAND TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing