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HIGH DESERT PARTNERSHIP

HIGH DESERT PARTNERSHIP (Oregon) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,394,570 to it, the largest being The Ford Family Foundation ($677,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$7.4M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$2.4M
Net assets
$5.4M
13/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What High Desert Partnership does

Mission

The High Desert Partnership shall be organized and operated exclusively for scientific and educational purposes. The primary purpose is to coordinate efforts that will enhance, conserve and protect the natural resources and rural lifestyles in the high desert for present and future generations.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Enhance, preserve, and protect natural resources.

    $5,220,032 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,220,032.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($626k) Expenses 100 ($503k) Net assets 100 ($377k)2018 Revenue 100 ($624k) Expenses 152 ($767k) Net assets 62 ($234k)2019 Revenue 143 ($892k) Expenses 159 ($798k) Net assets 87 ($328k)2020 Revenue 202 ($1.3M) Expenses 244 ($1.2M) Net assets 116 ($438k)2021 Revenue 347 ($2.2M) Expenses 408 ($2.1M) Net assets 150 ($566k)2022 Revenue 1021 ($6.4M) Expenses 1198 ($6.0M) Net assets 247 ($931k)2023 Revenue 1023 ($6.4M) Expenses 627 ($3.2M) Net assets 1108 ($4.2M)2024 Revenue 1109 ($6.9M) Expenses 1429 ($7.2M) Net assets 1042 ($3.9M)2025 Revenue 1184 ($7.4M) Expenses 1188 ($6.0M) Net assets 1421 ($5.4M)
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Revenue (1184)Expenses (1188)Net assets (1421)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $4.4M (+276%).

$378k
$236k
$331k
$680k
$801k
$1.2M
$4.4M
$4.5M
$5.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
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2020
2021
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 67% · 2018 86% · 2019 65% · 2020 67% · 2021 79% · 2022 91% · 2023 92% · 2024 89% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of HIGH DESERT PARTNERSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,293 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$123k
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−$143k
’18
$94k
’19
$36k
’20
$121k
’21
$364k
’22
$3.2M
’23
−$248k
’24
$1.4M
’25
4.3
months of
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

Gary Marshall

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+2+1+0+0+0+0+4
No longer listed·10210001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $94k → $680k.

3 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 HIGH DESERT PARTNERSHIP’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

HIGH DESERT PARTNERSHIP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

26% 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 HIGH DESERT PARTNERSHIP.

28%
largest funder
55%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 65% · 2019 47% · 2020 51% · 2021 29% · 2022 32% · 2023 32% — 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

75% of HIGH DESERT PARTNERSHIP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

80% of HIGH DESERT PARTNERSHIP's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $292k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HIGH DESERT PARTNERSHIP has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve4.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)36% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding HIGH DESERT PARTNERSHIP receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24.9M on record — $6.3M federal, $18.7M state.

Federal$6.3M
grants $6.3Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$4.6M
  • Department of Agriculture$1.6M
State$18.7M
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Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$7.2M
  • PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$7.0M
  • PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT>$75K$2.3M
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$1.6M
  • DISTRIBUTION TO FOR-PROFIT SUBRECIPIENT$637k
  • PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$5k

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 HIGH DESERT PARTNERSHIP

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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 HIGH DESERT PARTNERSHIP: 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 HIGH DESERT PARTNERSHIP?
HIGH DESERT PARTNERSHIP (Oregon) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,394,570 to it, the largest being The Ford Family Foundation ($677,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HIGH DESERT PARTNERSHIP have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $2,394,570 in grants to HIGH DESERT PARTNERSHIP, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HIGH DESERT PARTNERSHIP?
The Ford Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $677,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HIGH DESERT PARTNERSHIP 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 21 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