Oregon · Nonprofit
Friends of Tryon Creek
Friends of Tryon Creek (Oregon) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,180,886 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,070,291). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Friends of Tryon Creek does
Mission
The mission of Friends of Tryon Creek, in partnership with oregon state parks, is to inspire every community to identify, cultivate or reclaim their relationship with nature in this cherished urban forest.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, fotc completed the construction of a new educational facility on-site at tryon creek state natural area. This cost includes permitting, material cost and construction labor. Fotc provided management, oversight, and direction for the project. New facility was completed in 2025, allowing for program expansion and furthering partnerships with diverse communities of park stewards.fotc fundraised the entirety of the project, which will be owned by oregon state parks. Facility honors the indigenous cultural heritage of the lower willamette river basin and will serve thousands of youth and families for generations to come.
$1,543,266 spent66% of program spendingNature day camps, school field trips, cultural ecology programming, workforce development, adult environmental education.fotc facilitates cultural and environmental education for the whole community through diverse programming that supports tryon creek state natural area. Cultural ecology promotes the authentic cultural narrative of the tryon creek landscape. Fotc works to benefit intergenerational audiences through a connection with the natural world. Fotc programming focuses on inter-disciplinary stem approaches to building future leaders and stewards through place-based outdoor education for youth, familys, and adults.
$496,849 spent$315,739 earned by the program21% of program spendingEcological restoration at tryon creek state natural area.fotc manages projects and programs that benefit the ecological function of tryon creek state natural area. Tree plantings, land tending, removal of non-native species through educational partnerships, volunteer programs, and classes. In 2025, fotc completed a cultural and climate vulnerability assessment of the natural area in collaboration with oregon state parks. Fotc facilitated thousands of volunteer and student experiences directly working with and improving the forest landscape.
$309,919 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,350,034.
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 $1.0M to $1.8M (+80%).
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 6% · 2018 9% · 2019 6% · 2020 8% · 2021 27% · 2022 8% · 2023 5% · 2024 14% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of Friends of Tryon Creek’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Jessica Green
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $118k → $607k.
7 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Tryon Creek’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
Friends of Tryon Creek leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 Friends of Tryon Creek.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 42% · 2019 49% · 2020 60% · 2021 44% · 2022 40% · 2023 28% — 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
39% of Friends of Tryon Creek's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
76% of Friends of Tryon Creek's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M 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
Friends of Tryon Creek has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Friends of Tryon Creek
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of Tryon Creek: 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 Tryon Creek?
- Friends of Tryon Creek (Oregon) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,180,886 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,070,291). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of Tryon Creek have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $3,180,886 in grants to Friends of Tryon Creek, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Tryon Creek?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,070,291 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Tryon Creek 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 50 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