Washington · Nonprofit
DESCHUTES ESTUARY RESTORATION TEAM
DESCHUTES ESTUARY RESTORATION TEAM (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,360 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($71,350). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $229k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $167k
- Net assets
- $94k
What Deschutes Estuary Restoration Team does
Mission
The Deschutes Estuary Restoration Team or DERT advocates for the removal of Olympia's 5 th Avenue Dam and the full restoration of the Deschutes Estuary. We actively educate our community on the benefits of estuary restoration and advocate for funding and necessary studies. We envision a restored urban estuary and functioning ecosystem in the headwaters of Puget Sound.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Program Services-We educated the public about estuaries with 56 volunteers who provided over 550 hours of volunteer service in 8 kayak patrols, and 4 community forums. We performed micro plastic analysis and provided a pollution hotline.
$4,614 spent$13,060 earned by the program9% of program spendingCoordinate the heritage Festival with the Squaxin Island Tribe in 2024. Coordinate with the tribe on Capital Lake Dam Removal process with the proper authorities
$45,187 spent$82,736 earned by the program91% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $49,801.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $20k to $94k (+368%).
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: 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of DESCHUTES ESTUARY RESTORATION TEAM’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 4 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.
Board chair
David Monthie
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $25.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 DESCHUTES ESTUARY RESTORATION TEAM’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
DESCHUTES ESTUARY RESTORATION TEAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 DESCHUTES ESTUARY RESTORATION TEAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
DESCHUTES ESTUARY RESTORATION TEAM draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
DESCHUTES ESTUARY RESTORATION TEAM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like DESCHUTES ESTUARY RESTORATION TEAM
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
32% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DESCHUTES ESTUARY RESTORATION TEAM: 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 DESCHUTES ESTUARY RESTORATION TEAM?
- DESCHUTES ESTUARY RESTORATION TEAM (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,360 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($71,350). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DESCHUTES ESTUARY RESTORATION TEAM have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $167,360 in grants to DESCHUTES ESTUARY RESTORATION TEAM, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DESCHUTES ESTUARY RESTORATION TEAM?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $71,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DESCHUTES ESTUARY RESTORATION TEAM 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 5 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