Oregon · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF SILVER FALLS STATE PARK
FRIENDS OF SILVER FALLS STATE PARK (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,195 to it, the largest being WEATHERSPOON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $665k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Friends of Silver Falls State Park does
Mission
Friends of silver falls mission is to further the educational and interpretive opportunities available to park visitors, to promote, preserve, and enhance the historical, natural, and recreational resources within the park, and to assist with park improvements and educational programs compatible with the nature of silver falls state park.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
South falls nature store & annual parking passes: the store serves as a central hub for 1.5 million day-use visitors each year, offering an educational resource and a chance for volunteers and guests to engage and learn about the park. It generates financial support through the sale of educational merchandise that follows oregon parks and recreation guidelines and supports the friends of silver falls mission. In addition, 1,516 parking passes were sold at the nature store in 2025 contributing over $49k to parks.
$171,944 spentof which $898 as grants$605,392 earned by the program57% of program spendingPark interpreter, campground, jr. Ranger, guided hikes, field trips, discovery tables, and seasonal festivals: the park interpreter supports the oregon park and recreation department's interpretive programs at silver falls. Responsibilities include leading campground and jr. Ranger programs, guided hikes, field trips, discovery tables, and historic tours. Interpretive festivals educate thousands of visitors about the ecology of silver falls, offering free activities such as guided hikes, a native plant sale, plant displays, propagation classes, telescopes, and nature crafts.
$88,577 spentof which $377 as grants$3,648 earned by the program30% of program spendingGrants awarded: the grants awarded to silver falls state park aim to enhance visitor education initiatives, improve accessibility to interpretive facilities, and preserve historic structures. This year's projects included funding the design, construction, and installation of two entrance monuments,
$30,956 spentof which $30,956 as grants10% of program spendingVolunteer program: volunteers contributed the equivalent of $97,714 in time throughout 2025. They engaged directly with visitors at various locations, including the nature store, discovery tables, stone kitchen shelter, field trips, guided hikes, and special projects.
$6,139 spent2% of program spendingVisitor services: contributions to visitor experience include providing public wi-fi access, friends app with a full database of the park's flora and fauna, and music at the south falls lodge.
$2,112 spent1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $299,728.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $996k to $1.3M (+27%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Chelsea Sims
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $10k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 FRIENDS OF SILVER FALLS STATE PARK’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
FRIENDS OF SILVER FALLS STATE PARK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — 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
FRIENDS OF SILVER FALLS STATE PARK draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF SILVER FALLS STATE PARK
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 FRIENDS OF SILVER FALLS STATE PARK: 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 FRIENDS OF SILVER FALLS STATE PARK?
- FRIENDS OF SILVER FALLS STATE PARK (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,195 to it, the largest being WEATHERSPOON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF SILVER FALLS STATE PARK have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $80,195 in grants to FRIENDS OF SILVER FALLS STATE PARK, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF SILVER FALLS STATE PARK?
- WEATHERSPOON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF SILVER FALLS STATE PARK 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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