Oregon · Nonprofit
ECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS
ECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS (Oregon) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,399,439 to it, the largest being Gray Family Foundation ($221,700). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $554k
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Ecology in Classrooms and Outdoors does
Mission
Ecology in classrooms & outdoors (eco) connects kids to nature through exploration of the local ecology. Eco engages students in conservation education to create a deeper appreciation for the environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, ecology in classrooms & outdoors (eco) delivered comprehensive ecology and stem education programs to elementary, middle, and high school students through in-person eco lessons, aves compartidas dual-language programming, place-based units, and online curriculum. Eco educators reached 4,080 students at 15 schools across six school districts through hands-on ecological education, schoolyard experiences, and service-learning field trips. During eco programming, students from 136 classrooms spent over 9,000 hours learning about and engaging with nature.continued on schedule o. Our in-school programming brings ecology to life and provides experiential and multisensory lessons tailored to the unique needs of each community. Lessons are aligned with the next generation science standards, the oregon environmental literacy plan, and steam teaching targets. Our online platform, teach.ecologyoutdoors.org, provides access to free lessons as well as our place-based units, worksheets, videos, and additional curriculum resources, expanding our reach to educators in both urban and rural communities.this past year, eco's 15 place-based unit curriculum kits underwent a comprehensive…
$339,982 spent$54,910 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $339,982.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $1.7M to $1.4M (−17%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 54% · 2022 35% · 2023 15% · 2024 30% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of ECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS’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. 2 of the last 6 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
Sarah Woods
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $99k → $107k.
7 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 ECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
ECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
60% 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 ECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 43% · 2019 40% · 2020 27% · 2021 20% · 2022 24% · 2023 38% — 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
42% of ECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
66% of ECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $445k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
ECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS?
- ECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS (Oregon) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,399,439 to it, the largest being Gray Family Foundation ($221,700). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,399,439 in grants to ECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS?
- Gray Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $221,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 38 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