Washington · Nonprofit
COLUMBIA LAND TRUST
COLUMBIA LAND TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,807,405 to it, the largest being Hollis Foundation ($4,085,000). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $145M
What Columbia Land Trust does
Mission
The Columbia Land Trust conserves signature landscapes and vital habitat together with the landowners and communities of the columbia river region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Land conservation: Columbia Land Trust conserves and cares for the lands, waters, and wildlife of the lower columbia river region through sound science and strong relationships. The land trust finds common ground with landowners and community stakeholders to permanently conserve the scenic and intrinsic values of land and water. In 2024, the land trust conserved 448 acres across its service area, which extends along the columbia from the dalles, oregon to the pacific ocean. This included over 107.4 acres of forestland in washington state.
$2,592,856 spent$617,395 earned by the program32% of program spendingPublic outreach: the land trust's outreach and engagement efforts support conservation in priority areas by highlighting successful projects, promoting environmental stewardship, and connecting people to nature. These efforts include guided tours, volunteer events, educational publications, and community gatheringsall designed to deepen public understanding and support for conservation. Each year, Columbia Land Trust publishes two print editions of its newsletter, fieldbook, sends a monthly email update called the moss, and produces a year-end conservation report. The organization also maintains an active digital presence to engage and update people on its work. Continued on schedule oin partnership with bird alliance of oregon, the land trust also leads the backyard habitat certification program, which empowers urban residents to restore nature in their own yards and shared spaces. This program offers tools and educational resources for creating pollinator friendly gardens, helping residents of the portland-vancouver metro area connect more deeply with nature and support biodiversity.
$1,040,924 spent13% of program spendingLand stewardship: protecting and enhancing the conservation values of conserved lands is some of the most important work for Columbia Land Trust. It is the responsibility of the stewardship program to protect conservation values and to be a good neighbor and community member for all Columbia Land Trust properties through science-based management. The land trust evaluates each property for its conservation value, the threats to these values, and for opportunities to enhance conservation through responsible management. A stewardship plan is developed and implemented based on this analysis to include annual monitoring as part of an adaptive management framework.continued on schedule othe stewardship program is responsible for over 38,900 acres of land. The land trust are active in resource management, striving to improve habitat function and values on all of its properties. Restoration actions are implemented including improving hydrologic connectivity, habitat diversity and composition, and reducing risks such as wildfire. In recent years, this has included removing levees, planting tens of thousands of trees and shrubs, controlling invasive species, and thinning forests to improve…
$4,475,573 spent55% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,109,353.
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 $107M to $128M (+20%).
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 54% · 2018 50% · 2019 30% · 2020 63% · 2021 32% · 2022 27% · 2023 74% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of COLUMBIA LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Megan Rutledge
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $601k → $2.1M.
12 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 COLUMBIA LAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 funders by total. 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
COLUMBIA LAND TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
72% 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 COLUMBIA LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 50% · 2019 69% · 2020 21% · 2021 54% · 2022 30% · 2023 23% — broadly stable.
“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
52% of COLUMBIA LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
COLUMBIA LAND TRUST draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
COLUMBIA LAND TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 330 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 330 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding COLUMBIA LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record — $1.6M federal, $851k state.
- Department of the Interior$1.6M
- Department of Agriculture$22k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$797k
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$30k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT>$75K$24k
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 COLUMBIA 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLUMBIA 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 COLUMBIA LAND TRUST?
- COLUMBIA LAND TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,807,405 to it, the largest being Hollis Foundation ($4,085,000). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLUMBIA LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $17,807,405 in grants to COLUMBIA LAND TRUST, 53 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLUMBIA LAND TRUST?
- Hollis Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,085,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLUMBIA 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 87 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